Paris (France) (AFP) – The National Center for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC) will relaunch in 2027 its fund to support the creation of content on social platforms, suspended after a controversy over its impartiality and “threats” targeting the members of its commission, its president, Gaëtan Bruel, announced on Thursday.

Published on: 05/11/2026 - 17:08

This fund, intended to support creators present in particular on YouTube or Twitch, will be endowed with six million euros for 2027, i.e. double the amount planned for 2026 before its suspension.

“Works for social platforms have the same dignity as works for cinema, for television, for video-on-demand platforms,” Mr. Bruel said at Paris Creator Week.

“If a project justifies it, if the commission decides, we can allocate up to several hundred thousand euros for a single project,” he added, noting that the ceiling of 30,000 euros for projects will be abolished.

The Union of Influence Professions and Content Creators (Umicc) estimated that the envelope of six million euros constituted “a first step”, but remained “below the needs of a sector in full structuring”.

The French market for content creators is expected to reach nearly 9 billion euros in 2026, up 23.7% year-on-year, according to a study by Coherent Market Insights (CMI) which highlights a very unequal distribution of income.

The CNC fund commission had been accused of bias after comments made at the end of March on its Twitch channel by the streamer Ultia who had recently been named a member.

She said she would veto any file “deliberately proposed by someone from the extreme right”. She was immediately ousted from the commission.

“If there are projects carried out by people that I like, it is obviously obvious that, if I find the project relevant, I will +sauce+ the project,” she also declared, provoking an outcry on social networks.

The CNC, a public establishment with revenue allocated to support the moving image arts, had put an end to Ultia's mission due to "serious disregard of its ethical obligations".

The controversy, however, continued, relayed by political figures such as the far-right European deputy Marion Maréchal or the elected LR François-Xavier Bellamy.

This “continued to grow in intensity on social networks and in certain media, until it reached an unprecedented level of aggressiveness, including in the form of threats against members of this commission and agents of the CNC,” Mr. Bruel then affirmed.

The “creation support fund for social platforms” replaced the CNC Talent fund at the start of the year, increasing its annual allocation from two to three million euros.

This reform was motivated “by a need for clarification and refocusing on creative heritage works”.

Eligible projects are “exclusively works presenting strong cultural and artistic added value” and newspapers and news broadcasts are excluded.

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