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Video and film production, excluding cinema and television films

Current registrations 2,621division 59: 7,984
Starters, 12 months 56221.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 72.7 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 92454 employers · latest accounts
Median age 4.0 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 85.9%2,251 of 2,621 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 59113 · financial year 2025 · 702 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
43.4%
division 43.0% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€6,092
division €6,135 · Belgium €16,497
Median equity
€53,429
division €53,956 · Belgium €98,338
Loss-making
33.9%
division 35.4% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
14.2%
division 16.2% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
12.0%
division 12.0% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.67
division 1.62 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
40.3%
financial year 2024, 673 filings · division 41.1% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
5.7%
of 752 companies with annual accounts · division 5.2% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 39.8%42.0%41.0%39.7%45.7%43.4%
Median net result €8,411€14,239€8,497€7,766€7,903€6,092

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
17
0.65% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
19
7.2 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
28-05-2026 PITSY ANIMATIONS
BE 0725.445.083
08-05-2026 LeGrow.Studio
BE 0767.984.137
15-04-2026 IOTA PRODUCTION
BE 0471.482.554
07-04-2026 ORANGE CLIGNOTANT
BE 0871.387.919
06-03-2026 STUDIO FX
BE 0476.205.464
25-02-2026 DYMY
BE 0892.605.678
24-12-2025 Buddhabull
BE 0782.492.070
15-09-2025 ADULT
BE 0860.062.772

Every bankruptcy in division 59, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 1,126 of 2,621 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 656 · 58.3%
  • Brussels 290 · 25.8%
  • Wallonia 177 · 15.7%
  • Abroad 3 · 0.3%
fewer moremax 290

Largest employers

NACE 59113 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 EMG BelgiumBrussels 276 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 PROXIMEDIAForest 169 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Umedia Production ServicesIxelles 66.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 DB VIDEO PRODUCTIONSAartselaar 37.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 STUDIO FANTASTIQUELier 33.4 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 156 companies
  • 227 Audiovisual sector 109
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 21
  • 303.01 Film industry 17
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 16
  • 303 Film industry 5
  • 304 Performing arts 2
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 1
  • 130 Printing, graphic arts and newspapers 1
Show the 3 others
  • 201 Independent retail 1
  • 302 Hotels and catering 1
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 59: Film, video and music

Related activities

6 other activities

Bankruptcies per year in division 59

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies282126323027172932323933
Jobs lost3537544654103485254405674

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 59

264 employers
Median
€65,400
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€51,000 to €83,100
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
41 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €59,500 €45,800 to €77,600 168
10 to 49 FTE €70,900 €58,400 to €94,600 84

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 59
Number
73
Half have run longer than
23 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
41%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,621 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 9 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

23 of the 4,309 companies in NACE division 59 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (7), Netherlands (7) and United Kingdom (3). Together they employ 694 of the division's 3,956 FTE: 18%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €148.4m awarded 471 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Projectsubsidie voor een initiatief in de audiovisuele of gamesector (Decreet Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds 1999)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €120.1m paid 339 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • Federal transfers 40,275 amount as published 3 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen aan privé-organisaties in het kader van de diversiteit, de interculturaliteit en de gelijkheid van kansen
  • EU budget €59.0m attributed share 89 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Creative Europe
  • EU research €604,500 EU contribution 7 recipients · 2017 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Video and film production, excluding cinema and television films

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €6,092 is below Belgium's €16,497. 33.9% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium. Return on equity of 12.0% is below Belgium's 15.9%.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 2.7 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 69% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.3% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 21.4 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 98% of the 87 NACE divisions. Brussels holds 25.8% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 4.0 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 582 of the 924 FTE: 63.0%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 39.8% in financial year 2020 to 43.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €8,411 in financial year 2020 to €6,092 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 59113 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.