[DOCUMENT] CNC : les conclusions du rapport sur le soutien au financement de la creator economy

A report commissioned by the CNC (National Committee for Culture and Communication) on supporting the creation of content on free platforms outlines a plan to support creators until 2028 and contemplates the creation of an automatic assistance fund for the sector in the long term, under certain conditions. The report, published by POLITICO, was written by State Counsel Maxime Boutron, who outlines the conditions for implementing such a fund in the coming years, should regulatory measures, pre-financing, and market structuring be established.

According to Boutron, the sector must meet several criteria for the creation of an automatic assistance fund: transparency, engagement from various actors in the value chain, and a tissue of independent producers with sufficient own funds. In the short term, Boutron proposes simply reinstating the fund suspended last spring, whose criteria had been revised for 2026.

He also supports the idea of a catch-up envelope for 2026. "After a year without aid payments, and in the context of the video tax reform, the desire expressed for the 3 million euro amount allocated for 2026 in the CNC's initial budget for the fund to be carried over to future budgets and that compensation committees be organized appears legitimate," he explains.

However, he adds conditions: "particular attention to fiction, a genre historically less present on social platforms, appears necessary." CNC President Gaëtan Bruel is officially scheduled to present these conclusions to the Paris Creator Week audience next. The mission, entrusted at the beginning of July to Maxime Boutron, was launched following a series of controversies that led to the suspension of the assistance fund for content creation on social platforms, which supported creators in their video projects.