Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities
This view shows Belgium · 59209 · Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities. Sector figures are national, so the place does not apply here.
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 04-05-2026 | Laboratoires Titra
BE 0402.249.102 |
| 01-04-2026 | Garreyn, Joshua
BE 0688.915.279 · sole trader · Zonnebeke |
| 26-01-2026 | Van Elslande, Nicolay
BE 0788.356.711 · sole trader · Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht |
| 25-09-2025 | LD CONCEPT
BE 0630.688.753 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 49 of 124 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
The balance sheets of division 59 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 59209 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 SONUMALiège 22.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 LuisterpuntbibliotheekSchaerbeek 14.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 BARDAFWaterloo 8.1 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 4 VHS AGENCYNamur 1.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 dLive 1.0 FTEfinancial year 2018
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 2 companies- 227 Audiovisual sector 2
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 59: Film, video and music
Related activities
3 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound recording59201 | 799 | 68 | 2 | 16 |
| Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities59203 | 583 | 32 | 2 | 172 |
| Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities59202 | 254 | 33 | 0 | 45 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 59 · financial year 2025 · 2,812 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 40.8% | 42.9% | 43.5% | 42.7% | 45.7% | 44.4% |
| Median net result | - | - | €4,412 | €8,714 | €7,704 | €6,461 | €6,579 | €5,927 |
| Filed late | 42.8% | 50.3% | 47.0% | 46.2% | 43.0% | 42.3% | 41.1% | - |
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Bankruptcies per year in division 59
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 28 | 21 | 26 | 32 | 30 | 27 | 17 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 39 | 33 |
| Jobs lost | 35 | 37 | 54 | 46 | 54 | 103 | 48 | 52 | 54 | 40 | 56 | 74 |
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| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €59,500 | €45,800 to €77,600 | 168 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €70,900 | €58,400 to €94,600 | 84 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 59Measured nationally: Of 108,767 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% 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 12 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.
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
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €120.1m paid
- Federal transfers 40,275 amount as published
- EU budget €59.0m attributed share
- EU research €604,500 EU contribution
Insights on Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 32.7% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. 60.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 5.6 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 63% of the 87 NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 48 of the 48 FTE: 100.0%.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 12-11-2026 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 59209 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 1,276,395 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,135 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 59209, 22 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.