French Canal+ partners with Gemini to index content, ease production

Gemini will scan Canal+’s library and create a massive recommendation engine. (Picture: generated)
In a multi-year deal first reported by Reuters, the now global TV platform is looking to improve its recommendation engine and help production teams.

Starting in June 2026, Canal+ will be providing producers with access to Veo 3, which will help creators «pre-visualize scenes before shooting,» or help recreate history from a single image.

They will also be indexing its extensive content library to use in a Gemini-powered recommendation engine, creating a massive, multimodal database of sound, video, and text data.

Canal+ recently bought the pan-African boradcaster MultiChoice, extending the reach of its app and services to some 70 countries, as they are racing toward a target of 100 million streaming users, and hope to compete with the American streaming giants.

Read more: Canal+ press release, Reuters report.