This is a genuinely mixed group. It runs from France and club footballers and an Olympic judo champion to record-breaking gaming and comedy stars, plus beauty, food, music and fitness creators, most of them posting in French for a mainly French audience.
Engagement is a real strength, but it swings widely: a young footballer, the gaming star and the comedians get far more likes and comments per follower than the very biggest celebrity accounts, and most have audiences that read as real, with about eight in ten followers looking like real people on average.
Across this shortlist, audiences are more active than usual, engaging roughly twice as much per post as a typical account of the same size, though it swings widely from very high (a young footballer, the gaming star and the comedians) to steady on the biggest celebrity accounts.
The mix skews to mega and macro creators, so reach is high, while several mid-size names show the strongest interaction per post. Audience quality is good: on average about eight in ten followers look like real people, which matters when you are paying for reach.
Beyond this preview, France is a deep market with hundreds of thousands of tracked creators, so there is plenty of room to filter by size, topic, audience location and engagement to find a tighter fit for a specific campaign.
Paul Boulet
