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THE GERMANY EDITION 2026

Germany’s
media & entertainment industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in Germany. 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 4,449Media & Entertainment ecosystem in Germany Disclosed funding $2.07B169 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 156With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 3591 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Germany’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 Germany, snapshot 6 August 2026
Company
SoundCloudsoundcloud.com$543.08M—359Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
ProSiebenSat.1 Media$368.6M———
One Footballonefootball.com$320.1M—212—
ResearchGateresearchgate.net$87.62M—150—
Native Instrumentsnative-instruments.com$58.86M—2—
Kittlkittl.com$47.77M—44—
Mirelo AImirelo.ai$41M———
Morressiermorressier.com$40.75M—21—
Landeshauptstadt Wiesbadenwiesbaden.de—9 roles——
Thomannthomann.de—9 roles1,253Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
BurdaForwardburda-forward.de—8 roles——
Prematchprematchapp.de—8 roles15—
1SP Agency1sp.agency—7 roles——
bfe studio und medien systemebfe.tv—7 roles180—
funke mediengruppefunkemedien.de—7 roles960—
Edeledel.com—6 roles1,071—
Abletonableton.com——36Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Artec Technologiesartec.de——20Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Black Forest Labsblackforestlabs.ai————
Bookwirebookwire.de——150Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Brainpoolbrainpool.de——113Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
CEWE Stiftungcompany.cewe.de——3,745—
CTS Eventimcorporate.eventim.de——3,469—
Deutsche Welledw.com——149Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
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

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Media & Entertainment industry KPIs in Germany

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

6 August 2026
Hiring participation3.5%

156 of 4,449 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation5.7%

255 of 4,449 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share59.4%

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

Median disclosed round$198.09K

Midpoint of 345 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 59.4% of disclosed capital, while 94.3% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Germany 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

Germany media & entertainment
$0$125.73M$251.45M$377.18M$502.91M2016: $136.53M20162017: $401.97M20172018: $441.15M20182019: $33.47M20192020: $98.61M20202021: $53.56M20212022: $342.73M20222023: $41.48M20232024: $73.57M20242025: $59.76M2025
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Annual media & entertainment funding and company formation in Germany
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$136.53M18125
2017$401.97M15334
2018$441.15M15329
2019$33.47M20627
2020$98.61M24327
2021$53.56M21224
2022$342.73M12832
2023$41.48M9324
2024$73.57M8510
2025$59.76M193
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • SoundCloud26.2%
  • ProSiebenSat.1 Media17.8%
  • One Football15.4%
  • Other companies40.6%

Funding by stage

444 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel78 17.6%
Series A–B43 9.7%
Series C+ / PE11 2.5%
Grants, debt & other312 70.3%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
2 rounds

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Series A03/2026
Aeroband $14M

Backed by Matrix Partners China and Vitalbridge and others.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

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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.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

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

Busiest websites

255 of the 4,454 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (5.7%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 427,115 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
SoundCloudsoundcloud.com179,279,1549431.1%
BILDbild.de118,754,7889661.7%
Deutsche Welledw.com100,109,7978491.8%
JustWatchjustwatch.com99,858,2238473.7%
T-Onlinet-online.de93,721,2628679.1%
ResearchGateresearchgate.net85,421,6739038.2%
Kickerkicker.de83,483,1238480.7%
SPIEGELspiegel.de82,803,3608778.1%
n tvn-tv.de71,983,5218577.6%
DIE WELTwelt.de60,963,9328283.1%

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

Most-installed apps

605 of these companies (13.6%) publish at least one Android app — 952 apps in all, carrying 1.9B installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
upday news for SamsungUpday509.9M3.3News & Magazines
SoundCloud: The Music You LoveSoundCloud455.4M4.7Music & Audio
OneFootball Live Soccer scoresOne Football80.2M4.6Sports
Mighty Party: Epic RPG HeroesCollective Ace Group52.9M3.6Role Playing
Tellonym: anonymous questionsTellonym32.8M4.3Social
Camera FV-5 LiteCamera FV-526.6M4.1Photography
TV Cast for ChromecastVideo & TV Cast26.3M4.2Video Players & Editors
JustWatch - Streaming GuideJustWatch24.7M4.3Entertainment
djay - DJ App & AI MixerAlgoriddim24.2M3.9Music & Audio
GMX - Mail & CloudGMX23.7M4.5Communication

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 (2024Q1–2026Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Internet First Media254768.8Mupday news for Samsung 509.9M
Music Tech136540.7MSoundCloud: The Music You Love 455.4M
Ott Video86234MTV Cast for Chromecast 26.3M
Sports Tech48123.1MOneFootball Live Soccer scores 80.2M
Social Platforms9283.6MTellonym: anonymous questions 32.8M
Online Photos4164.6MCamera FV-5 Lite 26.6M
Services For Gaming3055.3MMighty Party: Epic RPG Heroes 52.9M
Tech For Film & Tv4043.6MJustWatch - Streaming Guide 24.7M

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.

2023Q2: 92023Q2: 72023Q22023Q3: 192023Q3: 82023Q32023Q4: 162023Q4: 192023Q42024Q1: 152024Q1: 132024Q12024Q2: 132024Q2: 132024Q22024Q3: 112024Q3: 492024Q32024Q4: 112024Q4: 412024Q42025Q1: 102025Q1: 292025Q12025Q2: 82025Q2: 262025Q22025Q3: 92025Q3: 882025Q32025Q4: 92025Q4: 832025Q42026Q1: 142026Q1: 1482026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 763 of 952 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Germany 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 digital2,094
Enterprise tech799
B2c e-commerce466
Enterprise software317
Saas176
Marketplaces174
Internet first news publishers165
Loneliness economy145
Media & entertainment saas95
Real money gaming91
Music creation it84
Spatial computing71

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

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

2094companies
3.0%have hiring activity

63 companies hiring · $1.81B disclosed funding

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How companies make money

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

Advertising2,249
Subscription1,888
Commission on transaction1,167
Sponsorship920
E-commerce - service834
Fee-for-service827
E-commerce - product542
Affiliate marketing323
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 & acquisitionsdelphi-film.de ↗

Following the production of its first feature film, Waffenstillstand, the company got involved in film distribution as well by taking over the Berlin-based film distributor Delphi Filmverleih in 2011.

Mergers & acquisitionsbookwire.de ↗

Back in October, UK-based Delta Software Group acquired Bookwire from long-time investor VR EquityPartners in a deal reportedly valuing Bookwire at around $115 million.

Mergers & acquisitionsfrontrowsociety.com ↗

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

IPO activityartec.de ↗

artec technologies AG (ISIN DE0005209589), specialist for intelligent video-based security solutions and OSINT-based information analysis, welcomes the current law on location promotion (StoFöG) and is committed to listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's scale segment.

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

Mergers & acquisitionsfunkemedien.de ↗

ProSiebenSat.1 continues to sell edge shops under its new owner MFE and sells the online portal wetter.com to the Funke Mediengruppe.

Funding roundsblackforestlabs.ai ↗

The Series-B was led by Salesforce Ventures and AMP, who joined as investors.

Mergers & acquisitionsmediengruppe-oberfranken.de ↗

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH has successfully advised the shareholders of the Mediengruppe Oberfranken (MGO) in the sale of all shares to the Mediengruppe Bayern.

Mergers & acquisitionssky.de ↗

Sky sold its German arm, Sky Deutschland, to RTL Group in June for $175 million.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 352 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Mergers & acquisitions
89
Leadership moves
83
Earnings
74
Funding rounds
28
Company announcements
26
Buyback
19
Contracts
6
Lawsuit
5
Capital infusions
5
New products
5
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Leadership moves

41 tracked people moves

Luca Poloni

Appointment Group Chief Operating Officer

Alexandra Dambeck

Resignation Member of the Executive Board

Quirin Berg

Appointment Deputy Chairman of the Management Board

Fred Kogel

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Jochen Köstler

Appointment Chief Production Officer Non‑fiction

3SS ↗
Felix Walter

Appointment Chief Growth Officer

Lawo ↗
Jamie Dunn

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

wild bunch ↗
Tarek Malak

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

ZEAL ↗
Traumautoverlosung

Charity-raffle

Meet5 ↗
Meet5

Friendship app

Contract wins

1 recorded customer wins

Customer: metaArtificial Intelligence

Workforce actions

1 companies with reported reductions

50 rolescost reduction

Regulatory events

4 recorded events

Financial ↗

dissolvedSuperintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS)

Financial ↗

approved legal person selectionSuperintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS)

Financial ↗

warning issued to consumersBaFin

ARD ↗

Re-regulated internal financial compensation mechanism

Litigation

5 tracked suits

Company
tf1, France Televisions, radio france, le figaro, liberation v meta

online advertising practices and data privacy violationCivil · Filed

Company
some 50 French newspapers, le figaro, le monde, Télérama v microsoft

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Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

10companies
66period observations
10.6%median reported growth

Median across 60 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

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

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
rtl group→sky deutschland ↗Announced2026-04-25Not stated in snapshot
dcm→Delphi Filmverleih ↗Completed2026-03-19Not stated in snapshot
Bookwire→zebralutionAnnounced2026-03-13Not stated in snapshot
Delta Software Group→Bookwire ↗Completed2026-03-13$115.0M
Front Row Society→socium mediaAnnounced2026-02-11Not stated in snapshot
Front Row Society→Built in AmsterdamAnnounced2026-02-11Not stated in snapshot

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

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

399 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 1,834-posting snapshot covers 114 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Unsere Jobs In Der Vermarktung43
Verkäufer (W/M/D) Sanitär25
Praktikum / Werkstudent Initiativbewerbung (M/W/D)20
Junior Online Marketing Manager (M/W/D)18
Database Marketing Manager (M/W/D)16
Freie Mitarbeiter / Redakteur / Reporter (M/W/D)15
1 internship postings

5 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

441 postings specify a level.

unspecified
1,393
manager
246
senior
98
lead
39
entry
36
intern
22

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 1,834 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Sql
4
Python
3
A/B Testing
3
Kpi
2
Data Analysis
2
Typescript
2
Automation
2
Personalization
2
Machine Learning
2
Metric Architecture
2
THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

1,205 founders and chief executives across 898 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

37 profiles with education records.

Technical University of Munich
3
RWTH Aachen University
3
HEC Paris
2
Stanford University
2
Universitat de Barcelona
2
Columbia University
2
Harvard University
1
Lund University
1

Prior employers

11 profiles with prior-work records.

Boston Consulting Group
3
McKinsey
2
Facebook
2
Amazon
1
Apple
1
Cisco
1
eBay
1

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

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

471,990 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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471,990articles in the measured year
93,931articles in 2026Q1
47.2%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Media & Entertainment coverage across Germany · articles per complete quarter

053,076106,151159,227212,3032021Q2: 78,5562021Q22021Q3: 86,7342021Q4: 74,6932022Q1: 94,3942022Q2: 89,2752022Q22022Q3: 86,3332022Q4: 104,3872023Q1: 107,4882023Q2: 98,8902023Q22023Q3: 107,3092023Q4: 93,7042024Q1: 117,6922024Q2: 129,9182024Q22024Q3: 124,9672024Q4: 127,3912025Q1: 179,2762025Q2: 115,3672025Q22025Q3: 184,6112025Q4: 91,3712026Q1: 93,9312026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q278,556
2021Q386,734
2021Q474,693
2022Q194,394
2022Q289,275
2022Q386,333
2022Q4104,387
2023Q1107,488
2023Q298,890
2023Q3107,309
2023Q493,704
2024Q1117,692
2024Q2129,918
2024Q3124,967
2024Q4127,391
2025Q1179,276
2025Q2115,367
2025Q3184,611
2025Q491,371
2026Q193,931

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
143,519 positive · 38,177 neutral · 97,619 negative
2022
182,108 positive · 53,720 neutral · 138,081 negative
2023
223,336 positive · 67,511 neutral · 116,106 negative
2024
246,412 positive · 103,461 neutral · 149,456 negative
2025
269,187 positive · 157,756 neutral · 143,183 negative

Leading coverage topics

Media & Entertainment coverage across Germany · 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

Media & Entertainment coverage across Germany

KeywordRecentPriorChange
countries4,1931,858126%
multilateral diplomacy1,6221,07251%
violin concerto1,070521958%
violin virtuosity1,057382682%
national security strategy98062058%
conceptual rock albums735302350%
study overseas65237375%
overseas study59134372%
avant-garde rock573115109%
aerial bombardments546191186%
europa league5512,677-79%
olympic team selections7841,955-60%
nationalist composers3781,890-80%
aleatoric music4631,471-69%
quarterfinals3981,402-72%

Event and signal lenses

Media & Entertainment coverage across Germany

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 across Germany. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT

Where companies are based

Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.

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UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Media & Entertainment in Germany: 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.

KEEP EXPLORING

Put Germany in context

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Company ecosystem snapshot: 6 August 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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