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THE BERLIN EDITION 2026

Berlin’s
media & entertainment industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in Berlin. 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 824Media & Entertainment ecosystem in Berlin Disclosed funding $903.52M78 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 27With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 420 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Berlin’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 Berlin, snapshot 1 September 2026
Company
One Footballonefootball.com$320.1M—212—
ResearchGateresearchgate.net$87.62M—150—
Native Instrumentsnative-instruments.com$58.86M—2—
Kittlkittl.com$47.77M—44—
Morressiermorressier.com$40.75M—21—
Nebenannebenan.de$25.72M—214—
Linearitylinearity.io$25.5M—58—
Blinkistblinkist.com$25.1M—135—
BILDbild.de—4 roles661—
JustWatchjustwatch.com—4 roles57—
Abletonableton.com—3 roles36Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Skooveskoove.com—3 roles26—
Highsnobietyhighsnobiety.com—2 roles101—
Holoplotholoplot.com—2 roles76—
Hyperbolehyperbole.de—2 roles35—
SongPushsongpush.com—2 roles8—
CHEEXgogetcheex.com——37—
Coproductionofficecoproductionoffice.eu————
DIE WELTwelt.de——660—
Filmstartsfilmstarts.de————
Finanzenfinanzen.net——67—
GIGAgiga.de————
Hermes Arzneimittel GmbHhermes-arzneimittel.de——76—
Knowunityknowunity.com————
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 Berlin

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

1 September 2026
Hiring participation3.3%

27 of 824 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation13.8%

114 of 824 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share51.6%

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

Median disclosed round$176.18K

Midpoint of 182 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 51.6% of disclosed capital, while 86.2% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Berlin 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

Berlin media & entertainment
$0$89.9M$179.8M$269.7M$359.6M2016: $27.19M20162017: $147.07M20172018: $69.13M20182019: $17.75M20192020: $3.15M20202021: $48.18M20212022: $315.44M20222023: $31.21M20232024: $65.84M20242025: $02025
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Annual media & entertainment funding and company formation in Berlin
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$27.19M4211
2017$147.07M3520
2018$69.13M2915
2019$17.75M5313
2020$3.15M5112
2021$48.18M4411
2022$315.44M3211
2023$31.21M1912
2024$65.84M248
2025$050
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • One Football35.4%
  • ResearchGate9.7%
  • Native Instruments6.5%
  • Other companies48.4%

Funding by stage

229 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel41 17.9%
Series A–B27 11.8%
Series C+ / PE6 2.6%
Grants, debt & other155 67.7%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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Series A03/2018
Nebenannebenan.de$19.66M

Backed by Burda Principal Investments and Lakestar and others.

Series B04/2015
EyeEmeyeem.com$18M

Backed by Wellington Partners Venture Capital and Passion Capital and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

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Annual accounts availability

The measured Germany identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: designated German registry identities do not carry the LEI or ISIN used by bundesanzeiger facts; legal-name matching is prohibited.; The measured Germany identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: designated German registry identities do not carry the LEI or ISIN used by bundesanzeiger facts; legal-name matching is prohibited.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

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

Busiest websites

51 of the 825 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (6.2%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 314,183 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
BILDbild.de118,754,7889661.7%
JustWatchjustwatch.com99,858,2238473.7%
ResearchGateresearchgate.net85,421,6739038.2%
DIE WELTwelt.de60,963,9328283.1%
ZEIT ONLINEzeit.de39,689,4577682.3%
Finanzenfinanzen.net26,919,0047682.8%
Filmstartsfilmstarts.de12,657,0867290%
Moviepilotmoviepilot.de11,871,6657089.6%
One Footballonefootball.com11,407,1999461.7%
Promiflashpromiflash.de6,493,7556993.7%

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

Most-installed apps

108 of these companies (13.1%) publish at least one Android app — 158 apps in all, carrying 815.8M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
upday news for SamsungUpday509.9M3.3News & Magazines
OneFootball Live Soccer scoresOne Football80.2M4.6Sports
Mighty Party: Epic RPG HeroesCollective Ace Group52.9M3.6Role Playing
Tellonym: anonymous questionsTellonym32.8M4.3Social
JustWatch - Streaming GuideJustWatch24.7M4.3Entertainment
Blinkist: Book Summaries DailyBlinkist21.8M4.6Education
Jodel: Hyperlocal CommunityJodel8M4Social
Pro MetronomeEUMLab7.7M3.6Music & Audio
The Metronome by SoundbrennerSoundbrenner6.7M4.6Music & Audio
BILD News - Live NachrichtenBILD6.7M3.8News & Magazines

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 (2023Q2–2026Q1).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Internet First Media21598Mupday news for Samsung 509.9M
Sports Tech380.4MOneFootball Live Soccer scores 80.2M
Social Platforms2249.1MTellonym: anonymous questions 32.8M
Ott Video1335.5MJustWatch - Streaming Guide 24.7M
Music Tech3330.1MPro Metronome 7.7M
Tech For Film & Tv829.9MMoviebase: TV & Movie Tracker 4.9M
Radio Tech1624.5MBlinkist: Book Summaries Daily 21.8M
Book Tech422.3Mmedimops: Bücher & mehr kaufen 317.2K

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: 12022Q4: 02022Q42023Q1: 22023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 22023Q2: 32023Q22023Q3: 32023Q3: 12023Q32023Q4: 42023Q4: 32023Q42024Q1: 22024Q1: 32024Q12024Q2: 42024Q2: 32024Q22024Q3: 52024Q3: 52024Q32024Q4: 32024Q4: 22024Q42025Q3: 12025Q3: 152025Q32025Q4: 12025Q4: 142025Q42026Q1: 52026Q1: 272026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 130 of 158 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Berlin media & entertainment market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital473
Enterprise tech175
B2c e-commerce93
Enterprise software73
Loneliness economy42
Marketplaces37
Saas35
Music creation it30
Internet first news publishers29
Edtech25
Media & entertainment saas18
Blockchain in media and entertainment17

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

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

473companies
3.4%have hiring activity

16 companies hiring · $778.16M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

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

Subscription437
Advertising362
Commission on transaction211
E-commerce - service137
Sponsorship136
Fee-for-service133
E-commerce - product91
Affiliate marketing52
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 & acquisitionsfrontrowsociety.com ↗

Before that, it completed acquisitions of creative agency School House; marketing firm Taylor & Pond,

Funding roundslateral.io ↗

Now, the London-based startup has secured £2.5 million in seed funding from Augmentum, supported by Triple Point and TinyVC, to take on one of the UK’s fastest-growing and least-served markets, which is health and wealth solutions for people over 60.

Funding roundsgiga.de ↗

Their company recently secured a huge amount of money, 61 million dollars to be precise, in funding

Funding roundsmapify.travel ↗

Scottish AI startup Mapify has secured investment from global VC Antler to expand its AI‑powered logistics and asset management platform.

Funding roundsknowunity.com ↗

German peers Knowunity and EDURINO secured €27 million and €17 million respectively for AI-tutoring and playful early-learning tools.

Funding roundsloopx.io ↗

LoopX, a Canadian company developing AI and robotics-powered solutions for the mining industry, recently announced a pre‑seed investment from Hatch.

Mergers & acquisitionslama-app.com ↗

LAMA , a developer of advanced audio production software specialising in cloud environments, is the latest acquisition by 罗斯视频

Mergers & acquisitionsuberchord.com ↗

UberChord, a Berlin-based startup that had already been partnered with Duolingo for some time, turned out to be the answer.

Mergers & acquisitionsdreamhaus.com ↗

The two promoters PRK Peter Rieger Konzertagentur from Cologne and DreamHaus from Berlin, both subsidiaries of the CTS EVENTIM Group, are merging to form PRK DreamHaus.

Leadership movesspringernature.com ↗

Alexandra Dambeck has decided to resign from the position of Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of Springer Nature and to serve as a member of the Executive Board in order to assume a new external role.

Full recorded event mix

Top 8 categories among 58 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Leadership moves
17
Funding rounds
15
Mergers & acquisitions
11
Earnings
8
Company announcements
3
Job creation
2
Incorporation
1
Layoffs
1
3 activity cards

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IPO pipeline

1 companies with recorded IPO activity

IPO · Frankfurt1 reports

Leadership moves

12 tracked people moves

Alexandra Dambeck

Resignation member of the Executive Board

wild bunch ↗
Tarek Malak

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

wild bunch ↗
Ron Meyer

Departure Previously Chief Executive Officer

Ibourk

Appointment Sales Agent

Prof. Dr. Torsten Martini

Appointment Preliminary Insolvency Administrator

JustWatch ↗
Quentin Carbonell

Appointment SVP, Global Content Acquisitions and Strategy

Mastodon ↗
Eugen Rochko

Resignation Adviser

Mastodon ↗
Andy Piper

Appointment Head of Communications

Workforce actions

1 companies with reported reductions

50 rolescost reduction

Mergers and acquisitions

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

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Front Row Society→socium mediaAnnounced2026-02-11Not stated in snapshot
Front Row Society→Built in AmsterdamAnnounced2026-02-11Not stated in snapshot
Front Row Society→school house2026-02-11Not stated in snapshot
Front Row Society→Taylor & Pond2026-02-11Not stated in snapshot
Front Row Society→finc32026-02-11Not stated in snapshot
ross video→LAMA ↗Announced2025-09-08Not stated in snapshot

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

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

5 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 7-posting snapshot covers 7 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Entertainment Contract Manager (All Gender)2
Senior Partner Relations Manager (Gamesentertainment)1
Vollzeit/Teilzeit Artist & Social Media Management Comedy & Entertainment (M,W,D)1
Financial Accountant/Buchhalter:In – Live Entertainment (X/W/M1
Lighting Operator (M/F/X) Touring & Live Entertainment1
Booking & Project Manager (M/W/D) Family Entertainment – Ibb Booking (A Sony Music Partner)1
1 internship postings

0 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

4 postings specify a level.

manager
3
unspecified
3
senior
1
THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

347 founders and chief executives across 241 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

11 profiles with education records.

Columbia University
2
Universitat de Barcelona
2
University of Cambridge
1
University of Chicago
1
RWTH Aachen University
1
Technical University of Munich
1
Monash University
1
Tel Aviv University
1

Prior employers

6 profiles with prior-work records.

Boston Consulting Group
2
Facebook
1
Cisco
1
McKinsey
1
eBay
1

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

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

34,614 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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34,614articles in the measured year
8,985articles in 2026Q1
58.7%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Berlin · articles per complete quarter

03,6357,26910,90414,5382021Q2: 6,3972021Q22021Q3: 7,5142021Q4: 6,2822022Q1: 9,7292022Q2: 8,5732022Q22022Q3: 7,4022022Q4: 7,9852023Q1: 10,0152023Q2: 7,7952023Q22023Q3: 6,6852023Q4: 7,2412024Q1: 12,1102024Q2: 10,7452024Q22024Q3: 10,8632024Q4: 9,4312025Q1: 12,6422025Q2: 8,4352025Q22025Q3: 8,7652025Q4: 8,5492026Q1: 8,9852026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q26,397
2021Q37,514
2021Q46,282
2022Q19,729
2022Q28,573
2022Q37,402
2022Q47,985
2023Q110,015
2023Q27,795
2023Q36,685
2023Q47,241
2024Q112,110
2024Q210,745
2024Q310,863
2024Q49,431
2025Q112,642
2025Q28,435
2025Q38,765
2025Q48,549
2026Q18,985

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
11,477 positive · 359 neutral · 9,906 negative
2022
15,669 positive · 511 neutral · 17,471 negative
2023
16,563 positive · 457 neutral · 14,674 negative
2024
21,930 positive · 727 neutral · 20,432 negative
2025
22,523 positive · 470 neutral · 15,358 negative

Leading coverage topics

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

Geopolitical Disputes And Contested Areas300,517 articles in the full recorded period
108,094 recent · 81,372 prior
International And Transnational Geographic Entities300,513 articles in the full recorded period
108,092 recent · 81,372 prior
Administrative And Political Subdivisions300,465 articles in the full recorded period
108,067 recent · 81,362 prior
International Political Relations62,277 articles in the full recorded period
14,664 recent · 13,654 prior
Security And Defense Policies42,948 articles in the full recorded period
10,657 recent · 8,753 prior
International Sports Competitions37,000 articles in the full recorded period
6,132 recent · 10,493 prior
International Relations And Diplomacy26,173 articles in the full recorded period
6,859 recent · 5,868 prior
Professional League Updates21,872 articles in the full recorded period
5,342 recent · 4,700 prior
Olympic Games Coverage19,404 articles in the full recorded period
3,186 recent · 6,238 prior
Athlete Transfer Rumors15,907 articles in the full recorded period
4,542 recent · 3,057 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

Germany comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
countries4,1931,858126%
multilateral diplomacy1,6221,07251%
conceptual rock albums1,283452751%
violin concerto1,070521958%
violin virtuosity1,057382682%
national security strategy98062058%
avant-garde rock969156360%
70s rock comeback725164431%
study overseas65237375%
overseas study59134372%
europa league5512,677-79%
olympic team selections7841,955-60%
nationalist composers3781,890-80%
aleatoric music4631,471-69%
quarterfinals3981,402-72%

Event and signal lenses

Germany comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

783,922 classified articles

territories, disputed islands, countries

24.0% critical · 15.9% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

84,932 classified articles

inflation reports fx, currency intervention policies, club valuation

39.3% critical · 43.6% positive
Rising

Growth

198,233 classified articles

gdp growth rate, gdp acceleration, economic output growth

29.5% critical · 46.3% positive

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

UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Media & Entertainment in Berlin: 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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