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THE AMSTERDAM EDITION 2026

Amsterdam’s
media & entertainment industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in Amsterdam. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

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Snapshot: Funding in USD
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Media & Entertainment illustration
Companies tracked 458Media & Entertainment ecosystem in Amsterdam Disclosed funding $99.93M39 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 20With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 320 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Amsterdam’s media & entertainment leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Media & Entertainment company highlights in Amsterdam, snapshot 2 September 2026
Company
GyPSiigypsii.com$24.1M———
TicketSwapticketswap.com$9.93M—220—
Smilersmiler.co$8.5M—40—
Cleengcleeng.com$7.55M—100—
FUGAfuga.com$7M—195—
Media Distillerymediadistillery.com$6.04M—42—
Polarstepspolarsteps.com$5.05M—50—
Solicesolice.io$4.99M—12—
TV2Ztv2z.com—4 roles33Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
433 Football433football.com—3 roles——
AT5 Mediaat5.nl—2 roles——
Cinetreecinetree.nl—2 roles——
GoPhotogophoto.nl—2 roles33—
Helloriderhellorider.nl—2 roles14—
Medialanemedialane.nl—2 roles85—
TV Raintvrain.tv—2 roles—Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
24i24i.com————
Ambassadorsambassadors.com——58—
BNR Newsradiobnr.nl————
Blenderblender.org——714Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Bounce Watchbouncewatch.com————
CLIQ Digitalcliqdigital.com——160—
DubFormerdubformer.ai————
Q-danceq-dance.com——113—
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

Company discovery

Recorded evidence only

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No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Media & Entertainment industry KPIs in Amsterdam

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

2 September 2026
Hiring participation4.4%

20 of 458 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation10.7%

49 of 458 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share42.6%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$339.53K

Midpoint of 52 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 42.6% of disclosed capital, while 89.3% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Amsterdam media & entertainment has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Amsterdam media & entertainment
$0$5.14M$10.28M$15.42M$20.56M2016: $3.4M20162017: $10.06M20172018: $7.93M20182019: $7.9M20192020: $668.2K20202021: $18.03M20212022: $1.53M20222023: $8.62M20232024: $4.43M20242025: $3.55M2025
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Annual media & entertainment funding and company formation in Amsterdam
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$3.4M239
2017$10.06M163
2018$7.93M85
2019$7.9M137
2020$668.2K273
2021$18.03M354
2022$1.53M146
2023$8.62M173
2024$4.43M154
2025$3.55M31
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • GyPSii24.1%
  • TicketSwap9.9%
  • Smiler8.5%
  • Other companies57.4%

Funding by stage

60 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel21 35.0%
Series A–B8 13.3%
Series C+ / PE0 0.0%
Grants, debt & other31 51.7%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

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Series A06/2023
Smilersmiler.co$8.5M

Backed by Octopus Ventures and Mosaic Ventures and others.

Series A10/2017
FUGAfuga.com$7M

Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.

Seed12/2021
Solicesolice.io$4.36M

Backed by Three Arrows Capital and Animoca Brands and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

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Annual accounts availability

No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for Netherlands; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.; No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for Netherlands; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Amsterdam companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

29 of the 458 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (6.3%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 296,447 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Nu.nlnu.nl77,951,4588175.8%
VoetbalPrimeurvoetbalprimeur.nl10,902,3256475.9%
Sportnieuws.nlsportnieuws.nl9,893,5445996.4%
Scribbrscribbr.com8,018,2988016.9%
Radio Gardenradio.garden7,382,2676052.7%
Blenderblender.org6,046,9907017%
Voetbalzonevoetbalzone.nl5,800,5286577.4%
F1Maximaalf1maximaal.nl4,363,3095090.4%
AT5 Mediaat5.nl2,413,0175270.6%
TicketSwapticketswap.com2,101,3324666.7%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

67 of these companies (14.6%) publish at least one Android app — 80 apps in all, carrying 145.1M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
PickU: Photo Editor & CutoutPickU56.7M4.7Photography
Radio GardenRadio Garden28.6M4.4Music & Audio
Football Mania - Live ScoresFootball Mania13.5M4.5Sports
PolarstepsPolarsteps10.8M4.7Travel & Local
NU.nl - Nieuws, Sport & meerNu.nl6.4M3News & Magazines
Djaminn: The Talent PlatformDjaminn4.4M4.4Music & Audio
TicketSwap - Buy, Sell TicketsTicketSwap3.5M4.3Events
MagicMarkerJaytronix3.5M4.6Art & Design
Pathé Thuis - Movies & PopcornPath Thuis2.4M4Entertainment
433 | The Home of Football433 Football2.2M4Entertainment

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2026Q1).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Online Photos558.9MPickU: Photo Editor & Cutout 56.7M
Music Tech836.9MRadio Garden 28.6M
Radio Tech830.7MQmusic NL 1.5M
Internet First Media2926.8MFootball Mania - Live Scores 13.5M
Sports Tech1617.2M433 | The Home of Football 2.2M
Social Platforms1813.6MPolarsteps 10.8M
Online Travel210.8MUrban Journalist 24.1K
Online Event Ticketing54.9MTicketSwap - Buy, Sell Tickets 3.5M

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2022Q4: 32022Q4: 02022Q42023Q1: 12023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 12023Q2: 12023Q22023Q3: 22023Q3: 42023Q32023Q4: 32023Q4: 22023Q42024Q1: 22024Q1: 12024Q12024Q2: 32024Q2: 12024Q22024Q4: 12024Q4: 12024Q42025Q1: 22025Q1: 32025Q12025Q2: 12025Q2: 42025Q22026Q1: 32026Q1: 72026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 71 of 80 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Amsterdam media & entertainment market map

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital234
Enterprise tech106
B2c e-commerce56
Enterprise software40
Marketplaces29
Saas20
Internet first news publishers16
Loneliness economy14
Video on demand13
Internet first sports media12
Media & entertainment saas12
Online video management10

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

234companies
3.4%have hiring activity

8 companies hiring · $68.46M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription223
Advertising210
Commission on transaction112
Fee-for-service93
E-commerce - service88
Sponsorship74
Affiliate marketing35
E-commerce - product34
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitions24i.com ↗

Video streaming software company 24i has been acquired by Sapphire Technology Group.

Funding roundshyves.nl ↗

Hyves is a funded company, having raised a total of $ ***** in its 1st and only funding round.

Mergers & acquisitionsthenextweb.com ↗

Tekpon, a Romanian-founded software solutions marketplace, announced that it acquired the TNW (The Next Web) brand from The Financial Times.

Mergers & acquisitionsendemolshinegroup.com ↗

Banijay Entertainment, which acquired Endemol Shine Group for $2.2bn (£1.7bn) in 2020 ...

Funding roundsdubformer.ai ↗

Dubformer, a startup based in Amsterdam that focuses on AI dubbing, has raised €3.4 million in Seed funding.

Leadership movesqmusic.nl ↗

Kris Stewart has decided to step down from his position after five years in the role.

Leadership movesstage-entertainment.com ↗

Arthur de Bok will remain involved with the company as an advisor through the end of the year to support the leadership transition.

Leadership movesblender.org ↗

Blender's COO Francesco Siddi will become the new CEO.

New productsbouncewatch.com ↗

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Asset acquisitionsoffthefence.com ↗

Dutch channel group Insight TV has acquired the assets of the 31-year-old production outfit.

Full recorded event mix

Top 9 categories among 37 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Earnings
11
Leadership moves
8
Buyback
6
Mergers & acquisitions
4
Funding rounds
3
Asset acquisitions
2
Lawsuit
1
New products
1
Contracts
1
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Leadership moves

5 tracked people moves

qmusic ↗
Kris Stewart

Resignation Previously Chief Executive Officer

Roel de Vries

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Arthur de Bok

Resignation Previously Chief Executive Officer

Blender ↗
Ton Roosendaal

Resignation Previously Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Blender ↗
Francesco Siddi

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Litigation

1 tracked suits

Company
will v amazon

discriminatory DEI programCivil · Filed

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Sapphire Technology Group→24i ↗Announced2026-03-09Not stated in snapshot
sapphire technology→24i ↗Announced2026-03-06Not stated in snapshot
Banijay Entertainment→Endemol Shine Group ↗Completed2026-01-13$2.2B
tekpon→The Next Web ↗Announced2025-12-10Not stated in snapshot
Brown Brothers Media→Silicon Canals ↗Completed2025-09-01Not stated in snapshot
downtown music holdings→FUGA ↗Completed2024-04-03Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

Recorded hiring and workforce signals from the available source snapshot.

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Most advertised job titles

No repeated job title is supported by this snapshot.

0 internship postings

0 tracked postings mention remote work.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

150 founders and chief executives across 118 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

10 profiles with education records.

University of Amsterdam
4
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
2
Leiden University
1
INSEAD
1
Sciences Po
1
Imperial College London
1
University of Cambridge
1

Prior employers

2 profiles with prior-work records.

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

12,883 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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12,883articles in the measured year
3,262articles in 2026Q1
76.3%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Amsterdam · articles per complete quarter

01,3162,6333,9495,2662021Q2: 2,6712021Q22021Q3: 2,3302021Q4: 2,3552022Q1: 2,5012022Q2: 2,7302022Q22022Q3: 2,9292022Q4: 3,5272023Q1: 2,9222023Q2: 3,3772023Q22023Q3: 3,4472023Q4: 3,1792024Q1: 3,0992024Q2: 3,4702024Q22024Q3: 4,1502024Q4: 3,5782025Q1: 4,5792025Q2: 2,9062025Q22025Q3: 3,2212025Q4: 3,2892026Q1: 3,2622026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q22,671
2021Q32,330
2021Q42,355
2022Q12,501
2022Q22,730
2022Q32,929
2022Q43,527
2023Q12,922
2023Q23,377
2023Q33,447
2023Q43,179
2024Q13,099
2024Q23,470
2024Q34,150
2024Q43,578
2025Q14,579
2025Q22,906
2025Q33,221
2025Q43,289
2026Q13,262

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
5,156 positive · 110 neutral · 2,490 negative
2022
8,318 positive · 137 neutral · 3,215 negative
2023
9,143 positive · 119 neutral · 3,643 negative
2024
10,097 positive · 126 neutral · 4,060 negative
2025
10,653 positive · 81 neutral · 3,234 negative

Leading coverage topics

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Amsterdam · ranked by full-period article count.

International Political Relations2,575 articles in the full recorded period
1,128 recent · 448 prior
International Sports Competitions2,256 articles in the full recorded period
382 recent · 513 prior
Strategic Partnerships And Collaborations2,121 articles in the full recorded period
508 recent · 487 prior
New Product Launches And Innovations2,087 articles in the full recorded period
492 recent · 448 prior
Professional League Updates1,710 articles in the full recorded period
278 recent · 422 prior
Security And Defense Policies1,640 articles in the full recorded period
918 recent · 191 prior
Technology Adoption And Digital Transformation1,502 articles in the full recorded period
336 recent · 331 prior
Olympic Games Coverage1,218 articles in the full recorded period
243 recent · 331 prior
International Relations And Diplomacy1,144 articles in the full recorded period
424 recent · 279 prior
Athlete Transfer Rumors1,142 articles in the full recorded period
217 recent · 239 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

Netherlands comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
conceptual rock albums1,338168262%
f1 world championship19613248%
geopolitical alliances19136431%
f1 championship16911350%
f1 grand prix14710146%
national security strategy14113985%
multilateral diplomacy13428379%
stock performance1186582%
financial control software8932178%
diplomatic strategies8732172%
intuitive painting5153-97%
non-representational art7123-94%
international courts58113-49%
gender critique art2101-98%
europa league4189-54%

Event and signal lenses

Netherlands comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

39,722 classified articles

fuzz guitar revival, raw rock production, garage rock resurgence

35.6% critical · 42.5% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

11,071 classified articles

conceptual rock albums, avant-garde rock, complex rock narratives

29.6% critical · 54.6% positive
Rising

Growth

9,812 classified articles

quarterly results, quarterly financials, earnings report

29.0% critical · 59.4% positive

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Amsterdam. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Media & Entertainment in Amsterdam: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

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Company ecosystem snapshot: 2 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.

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