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THE IRELAND EDITION 2026

Ireland’s
media & entertainment industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in Ireland. 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 614Media & Entertainment ecosystem in Ireland Disclosed funding $177.64M42 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 17With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 271 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Ireland’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 Ireland, snapshot 1 September 2026
Company
Unique Xuniquex.com$79.76M—67—
NewsWhipnewswhip.com$25.37M—51—
W4 Gamesw4games.com$23.85M—11—
VideoElephantvideoelephant.com$11.96M—41—
Fishbowlfishbowlapp.com$5.3M—66—
ShowTime Analyticsshowtimeanalytics.com$3.58M—31—
Amara Therapeuticsamaratherapeutics.com$3.31M—3—
Soundwavesoundwave.com$2.81M—10—
Flutter Entertainmentflutter.com—5 roles21,513Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Treehouserepublictreehouserepublic.com—3 roles——
Boulder Mediabouldermedia.tv—2 roles130—
Cartoon Salooncartoonsaloon.ie—2 roles231—
ChangeXchangex.org—2 roles7—
Wikipediawikipedia.org—2 roles590—
GoLoudgoloudnow.com—1 roles——
distilled schdistilled.ie—1 roles135—
Dublin Livedublinlive.ie————
GAAGOgaago.ie————
Highland Radiohighlandradio.com——12—
Independentindependent.ie——172—
Irish Examineririshexaminer.com——453—
Keywords Studioskeywordsstudios.com——499—
Newstalknewstalk.com——176—
Six Nations Rugbysixnationsrugby.com——39—
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 ↗

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Recorded evidence only

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Media & Entertainment industry KPIs in Ireland

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

1 September 2026
Hiring participation2.8%

17 of 614 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation8.6%

53 of 614 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share72.6%

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

Median disclosed round$231.18K

Midpoint of 63 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 72.6% of disclosed capital, while 91.4% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Ireland 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

Ireland media & entertainment
$0$24.09M$48.17M$72.26M$96.34M2016: $14.26M20162017: $238.38K20172018: $2.82M20182019: $6.81M20192020: $6.41M20202021: $6M20212022: $10.79M20222023: $32.7M20232024: $84.51M20242025: $02025
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Annual media & entertainment funding and company formation in Ireland
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$14.26M2511
2017$238.38K243
2018$2.82M367
2019$6.81M296
2020$6.41M474
2021$6M296
2022$10.79M1910
2023$32.7M1110
2024$84.51M175
2025$020
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Unique X44.9%
  • NewsWhip14.3%
  • W4 Games13.4%
  • Other companies27.4%

Funding by stage

72 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel18 25.0%
Series A–B13 18.1%
Series C+ / PE2 2.8%
Grants, debt & other39 54.2%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

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Seed06/2024
LinQlinq.gg$2.3M

Backed by Drive by DraftKings and Sharp Alpha Advisors 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 Ireland; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.; No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for Ireland; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

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

Busiest websites

23 of the 614 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (3.7%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 260,498 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Wikipediawikipedia.org4,182,321,06310073.7%
RugbyPassrugbypass.com3,593,9325589.6%
Boardsboards.ie2,459,3544978.2%
Irish Examineririshexaminer.com1,793,1956473.5%
Dublin Livedublinlive.ie1,219,8825587.7%
National Lotterylottery.ie965,6286178%
Rugby World Cuprugbyworldcup.com711,1886277.2%
Six Nations Rugbysixnationsrugby.com656,5985984.3%
Balls.ieballs.ie567,2254590%
Storyfulstoryful.com564,716374.1%

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

Most-installed apps

62 of these companies (10.1%) publish at least one Android app — 95 apps in all, carrying 19.7M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
Live Football TV - ScoreStackScoreStack3.8M4.1Sports
Fishbowl: Professional NetworkFishbowl3M3.1Business
Men\'s Rugby World Cup 2027Rugby World Cup1.5M3.2Sports
South Africa Lotto ResultsSLICE1.2M3.7Entertainment
OXygeanOxygean1.1M3.8Social
TheJournal.ie NewsTheJournal.ie927.4K4.3News & Magazines
Air DTVWikipedia887.4K2.5Video Players & Editors
RugbyPass – Live Scores & NewsRugbyPass801.1K3.9Sports
Ultimate RugbyUltimate Rugby626K2.6Sports
My Lotto UK: Scanner & ResultsSLICE611.3K3.9Entertainment

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 (2023Q2–2026Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Sports Tech145.8MLive Football TV - ScoreStack 3.8M
Social Platforms84.6MFishbowl: Professional Network 3M
Internet First Media254.1MTheJournal.ie News 927.4K
Ott Video74MThe Rugby Network 116.2K
Gambling Tech93.1MSouth Africa Lotto Results 1.2M
Digital Publishing Platforms111.2MAir DTV 887.4K
Music Tech5720.3KUd Tuner - Oud Tuner 573.6K
Services For Gaming13264.2Kدردشه مع مجهول عشوائي شات فضفض 247.1K

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: 02022Q42023Q2: 22023Q2: 12023Q22023Q3: 52023Q3: 12023Q32023Q4: 92023Q4: 02023Q42024Q2: 12024Q2: 32024Q22024Q4: 32024Q4: 72024Q42025Q3: 12025Q3: 152025Q32026Q1: 22026Q1: 102026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 90 of 95 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Ireland media & entertainment market map

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital309
Enterprise tech88
B2c e-commerce65
Internet first news publishers46
Enterprise software39
Real money gaming28
Saas24
Marketplaces24
Internet first sports media22
Loneliness economy18
Blockchain in media and entertainment14
Video on demand10

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

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

309companies
1.6%have hiring activity

5 companies hiring · $17.92M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

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

Advertising355
Subscription221
Commission on transaction176
Sponsorship148
E-commerce - service144
Fee-for-service131
Affiliate marketing61
E-commerce - product49
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 5 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionskeywordsstudios.com ↗

Its most recent European takeover came in 2024, when it led a consortium that bought Irish video games firm Keywords Studios for £2.2bn.

Funding roundsnewswhip.com ↗

advised Sprout Social, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based social media management software, on its acquisition of NewsWhip, a pioneer in AI-powered, predictive media intelligence.

Mergers & acquisitionsflutter.com ↗

In May, it completed its purchase of a 56% stake in NSX, the operator of Brazil’s popular Betnacional sportsbook.

Funding roundsvideobot.tv ↗

Videobot, a Finland-based SaaS startup that provides a video experience platform, has raised €2.8 million in funding.

Contractsgoldendiscs.ie ↗

Golden Discs, Ireland’s largest and oldest home entertainment specialist retailer, meanwhile has upsized and relocated from its original ground-floor unit to a new, 2,100sq ft store on the first floor.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 136 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Earnings
48
Mergers & acquisitions
29
Leadership moves
16
Buyback
13
Asset acquisitions
7
Company announcements
6
Layoffs
5
Funding rounds
4
Regulatory
3
New products
3
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IPO pipeline

1 companies with recorded IPO activity

Follow-on Offering · London Stock Exchange1 reports

Leadership moves

8 tracked people moves

Alfred Hurley Jr.

Retirement Previously Independent Director of the company

Nancy Dubuc

Appointment Chair of Flutter Entertainment’s Compensation and Human Resources Committee

Alfred F Hurley Jr

Retirement Previously Corporate Advisor

Michael Sheehan

Appointment Group managing director

Deirdre Veldon

Resignation Previously Group managing director

Contract wins

1 recorded customer wins

Customer: athlone towncentreRetail

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

7companies
51period observations
17.0%median reported growth

Median across 36 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

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

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Flutter Entertainment→the stars groupCompleted2026-05-05Not stated in snapshot
EQT-led consortium→Keywords Studios ↗Completed2026-01-15Not stated in snapshot
eqt→Keywords Studios ↗Completed2026-01-14Not stated in snapshot
Flutter Entertainment→NSXCompleted2025-12-24Not stated in snapshot
Flutter Entertainment→SnaitechCompleted2025-12-24Not stated in snapshot
sprout social→NewsWhip ↗Completed2025-08-01$55.0M

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

137 founders and chief executives across 104 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

10 profiles with education records.

University College London
2
Stanford University
1
University of Cambridge
1
Harvard Business School
1
INSEAD
1
Technological University Dublin
1
Dublin City University
1
Imperial College London
1

Prior employers

0 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

211,725 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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211,725articles in the measured year
35,135articles in 2026Q1
79.9%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Media & Entertainment coverage across Ireland · articles per complete quarter

033,01666,03299,049132,0652021Q2: 27,7892021Q22021Q3: 59,9072021Q4: 27,1702022Q1: 30,0672022Q2: 27,6172022Q22022Q3: 26,2742022Q4: 31,1012023Q1: 32,3322023Q2: 34,0602023Q22023Q3: 33,0892023Q4: 29,6302024Q1: 34,0492024Q2: 35,3842024Q22024Q3: 33,3402024Q4: 31,8252025Q1: 41,5822025Q2: 27,1502025Q22025Q3: 114,8392025Q4: 26,6392026Q1: 35,1352026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q227,789
2021Q359,907
2021Q427,170
2022Q130,067
2022Q227,617
2022Q326,274
2022Q431,101
2023Q132,332
2023Q234,060
2023Q333,089
2023Q429,630
2024Q134,049
2024Q235,384
2024Q333,340
2024Q431,825
2025Q141,582
2025Q227,150
2025Q3114,839
2025Q426,639
2026Q135,135

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
67,990 positive · 1,293 neutral · 52,430 negative
2022
71,834 positive · 1,999 neutral · 40,967 negative
2023
81,892 positive · 2,207 neutral · 44,667 negative
2024
89,817 positive · 2,642 neutral · 41,839 negative
2025
167,674 positive · 2,610 neutral · 39,619 negative

Leading coverage topics

Media & Entertainment coverage across Ireland · ranked by full-period article count.

International Sports Competitions25,462 articles in the full recorded period
4,590 recent · 5,806 prior
Championship Event Highlights10,552 articles in the full recorded period
2,165 recent · 2,047 prior
Sports Coaching Strategies8,278 articles in the full recorded period
1,305 recent · 1,376 prior
International Political Relations7,470 articles in the full recorded period
1,367 recent · 1,553 prior
Olympic Games Coverage7,285 articles in the full recorded period
1,117 recent · 1,828 prior
Sports History And Legacy Stories6,868 articles in the full recorded period
1,325 recent · 1,282 prior
Youth Sports Development Programs6,038 articles in the full recorded period
841 recent · 947 prior
Nationalism And Sovereignty Debates5,723 articles in the full recorded period
542 recent · 564 prior
Sports Injury Reports5,176 articles in the full recorded period
1,100 recent · 778 prior
Political Biographies And Memoirs4,959 articles in the full recorded period
384 recent · 251 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

Media & Entertainment coverage across Ireland

KeywordRecentPriorChange
study overseas413200106%
overseas study371181105%
semester abroad354172106%
stock performance32420062%
stablecoin fx impact24389173%
electronic beats rock230102200%
sports legislation19597101%
international programs1859791%
border enforcement practices17435397%
bowl game matchups17084102%
odi world cup255790-68%
icc world cup227730-69%
odi tactics336691-51%
limited overs cricket336653-49%
odi cricket323637-49%

Event and signal lenses

Media & Entertainment coverage across Ireland

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

138,241 classified articles

odi world cup, limited overs cricket, odi tactics

39.6% critical · 33.5% positive
Flat

Funding Momentum

32,761 classified articles

on-campus living, residential colleges, student accommodation

32.0% critical · 42.4% positive
Flat

Growth

37,214 classified articles

tax policy execution, tax expenditure oversight, gdp growth rate

33.7% critical · 45.5% positive

Media & Entertainment coverage across Ireland. 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 Ireland: 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 Ireland in context

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Company ecosystem snapshot: 1 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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