RTL Group Posts 3.8% Results Drop as Streaming Grows

European media conglomerate RTL on Thursday posted a 3.8% year-on-year drop in revenues to €6.018 billion ($6.9 billion) for the full 2024 fiscal 12 months with strong development on the streaming aspect and digital promoting while revenues at its Fremantle content enterprise suffered.

RTL’s adjusted EBTIDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, and Amortization) reached €661 million ($763 million), while whole group revenue rose to €1.03 billion, largely pushed by the sale of Dutch media network RTL Nederland.

Streaming income was up 26.3 per cent to €509 million ($587) pushed by a considerably greater variety of paying subscribers, elevated subscription costs in Germany and quickly rising promoting income on RTL+ in Germany and M6+ in France, according to an RTL assertion.

The group is making ready to additional strengthen its streaming enterprise by means of the deliberate acquisition of pay-TV service Sky Germany that is anticipated to shut in the first half of 2026 pending regulatory approval by the European Commission.

RTL has also expanded partnerships with distribution and platform companions including Deutsche Telekom, Amazon and Warner Bros. Discovery relating to HBO Max in Germany.

Revenue at Fremantle, was down 9.4 per cent to €2,043 million ($2,359 million). This was mainly attributable to decrease income from the leisure enterprise, particularly in the U.S. and the U.Okay.. RTL in its earlier outcomes report famous that lower in income from the U.S. was “largely expected,” as the first 9 months of 2024 had benefitted from NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” spinoff “Fantasy League,” which ran for one eight-episode season.

Fremantle scored a number of successes in 2025 with “Bugonia” from its Element Pictures shingle being nominated for 4 Oscars and a number of other high-profile productions for worldwide streaming platforms, including “Maxton Hall” and Hotel Costiera on Prime Video and “Sullivan’s Crossing,” “Evil Influencer” and “The Monster of Florence” on Netflix. In Septembe Fremantle announced the greenlight of a “Baywatch” reboot by Fox Television Network. The present will probably be co-produced by Fremantle North America and Fox Entertainment with a straight-to-series order for 12 episodes in the first season.

Commented RTL Group CEO Thomas Rabe: “The market environment in 2025 remained challenging, with a significant decline of TV advertising and an even faster shift from linear TV to streaming. Against this backdrop, RTL Group further accelerated its transformation by reallocating resources to streaming, combined with comprehensive cost reductions across our main businesses.”