PPF IS BUILDING A MEDIA ECOSYSTEM. ONEPLAY IS OUTPACEING GLOBAL STREAMING PLATFORMS AND SETTING THE STANDARD FOR EXPANSION

29. 4. 2026 | 5 min read PPF Group is developing a strategy for interconnected media and telecommunications platforms. The Oneplay streaming service serves as a model for other markets in Central and Eastern Europe, explained Didier Stoessel, co-CEO of PPF Group, at the Shifts conference.

PPF CEO STOESSEL: ONEPLAY IS 50 PERCENT AHEAD OF NETFLIX

8. 6. 2025 | 3 min read The PPF Group believes in a multi-platform future and the digital transformation of ProSieben, following the example of CME. Incoming co-CEO Didier Stoessel spoke about these plans in foreign media.

HOW TO BEAT NETFLIX AT HOME? THE NEW PPF CEO SPOKE ABOUT MEDIA INVESTMENTS

26. 5. 2025 | 4 min read Viewers primarily want local content, says Didier Stoessel from PPF about his plans in the television business. In a month, he will become one of the two heads of the group. In an interview with CNBC, he described his intentions for Nova and other channels.

CME INCREASES OPERATING PROFIT, JIRÁSKOVÁ AND STOESSEL JOIN PPF MANAGEMENT

6. 5. 2025 | 1 min read The PPF Group has announced an increase in operating profit for media company CME in 2024 and the appointment of Jiří Šmejc's successor at the helm of the group.

NOVA WILL NOT ENTER FREE-TO-AIR BROADCASTING WITH A SPORTS CHANNEL

19. 2. 2024 | 5 min read The Nova group's strategy is to operate paid sports channels, there is no economic sense in having a free-to-air sports channel, says CME’s CEO, Didier Stoessel.

CME IS PREPARING ITS OWN FAST TV CHANNEL, FOR EXAMPLE WITH ROMANTIC SHOWS

24. 7. 2023 | 2 min read Voyo subscribers spend two hours a day watching content, and the service has over 700,000 users in all markets. PPF Financial Group said in its annual report.

VOYO WANTS ONE MILLION USERS, PLANS DOZENS OF NEW PROJECTS

22. 4. 2023 | 2 min read The viewership of the Nova Voyo streaming service is growing. It attracts viewers' attention mainly with new original series. At the end of February, the service already had half a million active and paying users in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. But the goal of the managers is higher, Voyo wants up to a million subscribers.

DIDIER STOESSEL: VOYO DOES NOT CANNIBALIZE TV NOVA, VIEWERSHIP IS GROWING

20. 4. 2023 | 3 min read Total time spent with content on the Nova Group's channels, which includes SVOD service Voyo, is increasing, says Didier Stoessel.

„YOU CAN EITHER MAKE PEOPLE CRY AND LAUGH, OR YOU CAN’T SUCCEED IN THE TV BUSINESS,“ SAYS CME CHIEF DIDIER STOESSEL

10. 8. 2022 | 7 min read CME Media Group CEO Didier Stoessel is one of the most influential figures in the domestic media business. The former investment banker with experience at HSBC and Merril Lynch is the top executive chosen by the PPF Group two years ago to bring the newly acquired CME Media Group back to the limelight. And Stoessel hasn’t held back at all - he has pulled creative producers and developers on his side („Having good content and a way to deliver it - that’s the name of the game these days“), hired triple the number of studios and is spending hundreds of millions on content production. On top of that, he has “revived” the then-stagnant Voyo, an online video library project, which he has made into one of the distinctive pillars of its strategy and which is now generating hundreds of millions in revenue a year. However, Stoessel still faces a number of challenges: competition in the market („Even though our biggest competition is sleep - that’s six to seven hours a day when you’re not consuming our content“), the economic slowdown or the steady decline in viewership of linear broadcasting. How does one of the most important Television executives in the Czech republic plan to deal with them?

GRUNT: VOYO EXCEEDED THOUSANDS OF 350 SUBSCRIBERS

30. 1. 2022 | 2 min read The number of Voyo video subscribers was to exceed 350,000. Another milestone is reaching 500,000 subscribers.

TV NOVA TO LAUNCH A NEW STATION SOON

11. 1. 2022 | 2 min read The family of TV channels of the Nova group will expand to include another programme, which will be focused on sports again. CME’s CEO, Didier Stoessel, confirmed that in an interview for Forbes. Nova Sport 5 is going to be launched “soon”, he said. “Sport will play a bigger and bigger role. What it has in common with the news is that it is usually watched live. Sport is going to grow and that is why we are investing so much in it. We have four sports channels and Nova Sport 5 will join them soon. The third issue will be a total increase in video content consumption,” said the manager in the interview.

CME INVESTING IN DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT WITH VOYO IN THE FOCUS

13. 4. 2021 | 4 min read The Voyo video portal should become the centre of a new strategy of CME. The owner of the TV Nova group invests in the development of digital media.

CME’S CEO: VOYO WILL HAVE MORE AND MORE EXCLUSIVE CONTENT. ITS PRODUCTION HAS STARTED

13. 4. 2021 | 4 min read The Nova group plans to make significant investments in the production of new content for its Voyo platform. There should be from 15 to 20 new formats produced every year. Voyo should become a dominant player on the local market that wants to compete using its exclusive original and acquired content. Its ambition is that the platform will have about a million subscribers in Czechia and Slovakia within five years. Didier Stoessel, the new head of the CME group, said that at a meeting with media journalists today.