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These are the Top Publishing Companies and Platforms Headquartered in Germany (2021)

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This article showcases our top picks for the best Germany based Publishing companies. These startups and companies operate a variety of Publishing solutions. We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands. Regardless, they are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.

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We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact
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Top Germany Publishing Companies

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Axel Springer

Axel Springer

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Axel Springer is a media company engaged in publishing newspapers, magazines, and digital sales channels. Axel Springer founded the publishing house in Hamburg in 1946; the editors spent the first year working above a warehouse for tea and spices, often without electricity, and using borrowed typewriters.

As a result of consistent internationalization and digitization, Axel Springer SE today is not only market leader in the German print business, but is also active in more than 40 countries through subsidiaries, joint ventures and licenses. Now it is a question of pressing ahead with digitization even faster and more vigorously.

For Axel Springer SE, informative and entertaining journalism is a viable business model also in future on the Internet, along with marketing and classifieds, the other two business segments in which the company is traditionally strong. In the tradition of its founder, who fostered journalistic and technological innovations in his time, Axel Springer SE is breaking new ground.

The company is consistently pursuing the objective of building up a fast-growing and profitable digital portfolio and for this reason is networking today more than ever before with the current generation of founders: digital start-ups. Along with the transformation of their established strong media brands, their own new developments online and strategically-oriented acquisitions of web companies, this network is one of the building blocks of the company’s international digitization strategy: Axel Springer SE wants to become the leading digital publisher..

Global Savings Group

Global Savings Group

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The Global Savings Group (GSG) is Europe’s leading shopping rewards company that empowers people to shop in a smarter way. With its comprehensive portfolio of consumer engagement platforms and savings brands, GSG provides people access to exclusive savings, deals, product information, reviews, and discovery from their favorite stores and brands.

GSG’s team of over 500 professionals in 20 plus markets across the globe, an advanced technology stack, and close, lasting partnerships with the world’s leading news publishers enables it to help consumers to save on more than 2 million transactions every month. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Munich, GSG increases customer loyalty and drives engagement for the world’s largest advertising brands, while assisting yearly more than 350 million shoppers to make smarter purchasing decisions..

Inkitt

Inkitt

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Inkitt is the world’s first reader-powered book publisher. They have developed an algorithm that predicts bestsellers by analyzing reading behaviour.

At Inkitt, they believe that every author should have an equal chance to succeed. That’s why they’re building the fairest and most objective publishing house in the world by finding hidden talents and turning them into globally successful authors.

They’re a team of 30 hard-working, extremely talented, and highly dedicated entrepreneurs and have raised $5m to level up and get closer to their goal: to help debut authors dominate the NY Times Best Seller list.. .

Bauer Media

Bauer Media

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The Bauer Media Group is Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. The Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations.

Their business is built on influential media brands with millions of personal relationships with engaged readers and listeners. Their strategy is to connect audiences with excellent content through their broad multi-touch point brand platforms, wherever and whenever and however they want.

Their wide portfolio of influential brands gives us advantages over pure play magazine, TV, digital or radio competitors. The development of the digital business is essential for Bauer.

Therefore the Bauer Media Group is represented with more than 140 brands worldwide on the Apple Newsstand, Google Play, Zinio, Amazon and other with various products for each brand. Furthermore Bauer runs more than 240 online platforms reaching from traditional news websites over classified portals up to sophisticated brand networks.

Bauer is also know as an experienced investor: The acquisition of Sunrise System, the leading e-marketing company in Eastern Europe or the take over of the Tader Classifieds network in Australia and New Zealand are just some examples for Bauers digital M&A activities.. .

moviepilot.de

moviepilot.de

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Moviepilot is a film website in Germany with a strong focus on movie recommendation and a large and active community of over 250.000 registered users. In 2011 they launched its international website moviepilot.com, the new home for the most avid moviegoers and TV show junkies out there.

It is a place to discover, discuss, and read about upcoming movies and TV shows. Their content is derived from a global network of bloggers, film journalists, and passionate fans.

Moviepilot is a growing movie fan community already reaching over 13 million of the most avid US movie and TV fans. Its technology helps major and independent studios better understand their audience, power the social distribution of their content, and use social media more effectively and efficiently to find and reach their audience..

Steady

Steady

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Most independent content creators (podcasters, online magazines, bloggers, YouTubers, open source developers) don’t have the resources to directly monetize their communities. They rely on shaky ad revenue or donations.

Steady converts these communities to paying members, taking a share out of every transaction. Think Shopify for content creators..

Faregames

Faregames

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Flaregames is a fast-growing mobile game publisher and developer that is focused on creating and bringing fun, high-quality, free-to-play games to smartphones and tablets. The company has a pipeline of games in development internally, and is working with some of the most talented mobile game developers from around the world to bring their games to mobile gamer.

Flaregames publishes and builds games across a number of top genres including Tower Defense (and Offense), Real-Time Strategy, RPG, and world building games. The company has also recently signed publishing partnerships with Subatomic Studios, Superweapon, and FuzzyCube Software as part of its portfolio publishing initiative to bring AAA titles from world-class studios to market.

Based in sunny Karlsruhe, Germany, flaregames is located just an hour from Frankfurt, and two hours from Paris by train. The company was founded in 2011 by a group of industry veterans, including Klaas Kersting, the former CEO and founder of online games leader Gameforge.

Flaregames is committed to an environment free of office politics under the belief that in the games industry, it should be fun to come to work and rewarding to be a part of a great team. The company is venture-backed, having raised $23 Million to employ the best people in mobile games and ensure the company fulfills its destiny of becoming a major publisher reaching and entertaining the massive global audience of mobile gamers..

PressMatrix

PressMatrix

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PressMatrix is a technology company helping publishers deliver their magazines on tablets and mobile devices.

CourseYard GmbH

CourseYard GmbH

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Create, Publish and Distribute Interactive Media-Rich Publications in minutes Autoria is a web-based platform for Authoring, Publishing and Distribution of interactive materials. Our collaborative solution helps to design your publications and either sell it to a broad public market or distribute it to a defined group of users.

Your published content can be accessed from any kind of device anywhere and anytime. You will be able to control the sales of your content, recall usage statistics and improve your content according to the outcomes.

Mabe by CourseYard.. .

Content Fleet

Content Fleet

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Content Fleet’s unique technology assists online publishers to write topics that will boost internet traffic and revenue. Their technology revolutionizes content creation for online publishers.

A sophisticated Big Data backend identifies those topics and trends that will attract new audiences. Content Fleet also increases the efficiency of editorial teams, resulting in a greater number of hits and lower editorial outlay for online publishers.

Their team of 80 people already caters content, portals, and software to clients such as Axel Springer, Burda, G+J, Yahoo!, and other major media players.. .

Golf Post AG

Golf Post AG

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Golf Post is a young, enthusiastic team with the goal of advancing the sport of golf in Germany, and focuses on the German golf perspective. Golf Post offers exciting topics related to the game of golf as well as current coverage of professional tournaments.

In addition to our editorial team, the users themselves have the opportunity to contribute to the content. Golf Post is one of the largest German-language sites for golf in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The online magazine provides editorial content for all topics around the theme of golf.. .

Vertical Media

Vertical Media

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Vertical Media is a Berlin-based media house for the digital economy. The company presents both online magazines [Gründerszene](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grunderszene) and VentureVillage as well as the networking event Spätschicht, the Heureka! Conference and the CEO Events Breakfast Club, and CEO Berlin and CEO Dinner.

With its products ranging from editorial media and events all the way to knowledge transfer through digital databases such as the Branchen-Verzeichnis (Yellow Pages) and our Datenbank (data base), seminars and many other services, Vertical Media offers relevant and up-to-date information, increases trans¬parency, and nurtures an active dialogue between individuals, companies and key players in the digital economy.. .

Shotcaller Media

Shotcaller Media

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The Shotcaller is an online publication that covers trends and news in esports, gaming, and culture.

COPE GmbH & Co. KG

COPE GmbH & Co. KG

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C3 is a content centric digital agency based in Berlin and Munich. C3 stands for Creative code + Content.

A novel network of agencies that will arise from the merger of the two content marketing specialists KircherBurkhardt and Burda Creative. In C3 along creativity, technology and excellent journalistic content to make the communication success of companies..

greatcontent.com

greatcontent.com

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greatcontent crowd sources qualified talent for any text writing project and puts it to work for you efficiently through an online platform. Put simply, copywriting is what we do.

Our advanced interface allows you to set up your orders across multiple languages and rely on our quality assurance controls. We have an ever-expanding pool of talented and experienced writers, supplying clients from all industries with creative work, promoting companies and businesses across the internet.

greatcontent delivers premium quality creative writing to a whole variety of clients, providing them with unique website content to fully support their online marketing strategies. Whether you’re looking for one short text for a homepage which perfectly captures your business, or multiple texts to distribute throughout your site, our freelance content writers have many years of experience in creating dynamic SEO copywriting for thousands of satisfied clients..

Highsnobiety

Highsnobiety

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Highsnobiety is an online publication that covers trends and news in fashion, art, music, and culture. It offers daily news updates, weekly feature interviews, and articles as well as columns featuring influential designers, graphic artists, and retailers.

Highsnobiety was launched in 2005 and is based in Berlin, Germany.. .

Hole & Corner

Hole & Corner

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Hole & Corner celebrates craft, beauty, passion and skill. It’s about people who spend more time ‘doing’ than ‘talking’, who put content above style, whose work is their life.

Through a quarterly print magazine and a regularly updated digital platform, they aim to promote local trade and talented individuals, whether professional or amateur, exploring and celebrating the landscape that inspires them. Combining these subjects with some of the world’s finest still life, style and fashion photographers, their goal is to present a lifestyle and culture in a way previously unseen..

PROSEO CONSULTING GmbH

PROSEO CONSULTING GmbH

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ProSeo Consulting is an advertising company that offers lead generation services to its clients. The company creates advertisements for its clients’ websites to convert their visitors into customers.

The advertisements are personalized, including company details and location. ProSeo Consulting was founded in 2014 by Andrea Reintjes and is based in Rheinland-Pfalz..

Berliner Zeitung

Berliner Zeitung

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News from the capital city of Berlin’s largest subscription newspaper.

AX Semantics

AX Semantics

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AX Semantics is a AI-powered, natural language generation (NLG) software company with roots grounded in content and storytelling. Our sophisticated, yet easy to use SaaS-based software makes automated content generation accessible to customers of all sizes, and is used widely within the e-commerce, business, finance and media publishing sectors.

Available in 110 languages, AX Semantics works with more than 500 customers, including globally recognized brands like Porsche, Nestlé and mytheresa.com. AX Semantics was named one of the world’s top five providers of natural language generation platforms by Gartner, and a top emerging company in the NLG market by Forrester AX Semantics is changing the way content is created, published and viewed.

Our software allows thousands of users to successfully automate text within two days, and gives people the space to develop and nurture their creative originality. Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California, AX Semantics is a privately-held company backed by Airbridge Equity Partners..

Müller Medien

Müller Medien

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Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.

Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müller founded from his living room out – the foundation for the company’s family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.

The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia.

More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this.

Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.. .

Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel

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DER SPIEGEL, along with FOCUS, is one of the two largest-circulation news magazines published in Germany. DER SPIEGEL is Germany’s oldest news magazine, founded in 1946 as an obvious imitation of America’s TIME and NEWSWEEK magazines.

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Hubert Burda Media

Hubert Burda Media

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Hubert Burda Media is a German corporate venture capital company focused on late-stage venture investments.

markt.de

markt.de

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markt.de is one of Germany’s leading classifieds websites with about 1,5 million ads. Founded in 2005, the classifieds portal adapted the concept of the local market for the Internet: buyer and seller meet online and finalize the deal locally.

The local classifieds, called Kleinanzeigen, at markt.de attract many thousands of new ads every day. Visit markt.de if you are interested in classified ads concerning job opportunities, local services as well as buying or selling pets, vehicles, bicycles, and other merchandise.

markt.de is a part of markt.gruppe GmbH & Co. KG – a holding founded by Georg von Holtzbrinck, Dr.

Ippen and the WAZ Mediengruppe, which comprises several online portals and over 150 newspaper titles from 50 publishers attracting 15 million readers daily.. .

Der Tagesspiegel

Der Tagesspiegel

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Der Tagesspiegel is a German daily newspaper that offers coverage of daily breaking news. Its website consists of articles by its online editor along with a couple of little extras, including a caricatures section and links to the websites of the magazine Zitty and Meinberlin.de for those bent on making the most of what Berlin has to offer.

Der Tagesspiegel is owned by the Holtzbrinck Group, the discreet colossus in the German mediascape.. .

StorifyMe

StorifyMe

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SaaS – Engage your customers with stories!

Social Sweethearts

Social Sweethearts

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Social Sweethearts is a publisher of individualized, family-friendly content worldwide. It puts a smile on the face of over 150 million active players every month.

Due to its focus on family-friendly feelgood content and projects such as quizzes and instant games, its offers are among the most used worldwide. This success is based on an international team and self-developed technological platforms and tools with which it pursues a KPI and data-based publishing strategy..

Prinovis Ltd & Co KG

Prinovis Ltd & Co KG

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Prinovis was founded in 2005 as a merger of the gravure operations of arvato (Bertelsmann), Axel Springer and Gruner + Jahr. Originally, arvato and Gruner + Jahr each held a 37.45 percent share of Prinovis.

Now Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA directly owns 74.9 percent of the shares, with the remaining 25.1 percent held by Axel Springer SE. The company does business as a Prinovis Limited & Co.

KG. It is part of Be Printers, the conglomerate of print operations within Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA.

Dr. Bertram Stausberg serves as CEO of the Prinovis group of companies.

The Be Printers group covers the entire range of technology in the modern printing industry. In addition to high-volume illustration and book printing (gravure, offset), Be Printers companies also offer sheet-fed offset printing services and customisable products using digital printing technology.

They produce magazines, catalogues, brochures and books of the highest quality for their clients, and also provide direct marketing and e-publishing services. Prinovis has production sites in Ahrensburg, Dresden and Nuremberg in Germany and Liverpool in the UK.

Datawrapper

Datawrapper

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Datawrapper enables users to create charts and maps in minutes, not hours. The tool is designed for journalists in newsrooms, to support data-driven journalism.

The tool helps users to create high quality charts in few steps. Datawrapper has a global user base of about 50.000 registered users, most of them professional journalists or communicators from other fields.

The company is privately owned by the founders, there are no outside investors.. .

OWC

OWC

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OWC is a publishing platform for forien trade.

Gruner + Jahr

Gruner + Jahr

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Gruner + Jahr is the publishing division of European media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG.

Podigee

Podigee

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Podigee is a SaaS for podcast publishers that includes hosting, distribution, analytics and monetization

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is a national German newspaper that provides news under many categories: Policy, Economy, Finances, Features, Society, Sports, Style, Technology and Engine, Knowledge, Travel, and Career and Opportunity. A large network of correspondents reports competently from around the world to support the growth of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

This was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Frankfurt.. .

Prinovis UK Ltd

Prinovis UK Ltd

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Prinovis UK Ltd., a passionate, experienced and innovative provider of print services, located in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Their proven track record in producing consistently high quality means you can trust them to deliver the best results.

Quality, speed and flexibility are at the heart of everything they do. Prinovis UK Ltd.’s modern print plant in Liverpool houses multiple presses and finishing systems.

Their constant innovation and investment puts us at the forefront of printing trends allowing us to deliver your content the way you want it. They take trust and security seriously and they’re experienced in printing sensitive and confidential projects.

The parent company, Prinovis Limited & Co. KG.

was founded in 2005 as a merger of the gravure operations of arvato (Bertelsmann), Axel Springer and Gruner + Jahr. Originally, arvato and Gruner + Jahr each held a 37.45 percent share of Prinovis.

Now Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA directly owns 74.9 percent of the shares, with the remaining 25.1 percent held by Axel Springer SE.. .

Volksstimme.de

Volksstimme.de

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Volksstimme.de is the online service of the newspaper People’s Voice.

ZEIT ONLINE

ZEIT ONLINE

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The fastest growing German-language platform for demanding online journalism and reader discussions with level.

Titel Media

Titel Media

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Titel Media is a wholly independent publisher of online fashion and lifestyle news websites with offices in Berlin .

Berliner Morgenpost

Berliner Morgenpost

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Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper.

Yones

Yones

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Yones is a news application that adapts to the user. Yones knows what the individual user is interested in, what they have already read, and anticipates what they would like to read in the future.

This is made possible with technology based on machine learning. Every day, people spend several hours with media, especially reading the news.

They consume information either online or printed, maybe as a subscription. Thanks to the Internet they have access to much more news sources than ever.

At the same time, however, they are increasingly facing the problem of information overload. It is becoming more difficult and time-consuming to distinguish between what represents important information and what not.

The Yones apps in Android, iOS and all web browsers reduce the daily news flood to the articles that the algorithms judge to be interesting to the reader. The users save time by getting the content they are interested in straight away, without being distracted by irrelevant information.

Provided with information gathered from hundreds of different news sources they are more likely to find interesting articles which they would otherwise not have found in a reasonable amount of time.. .

Springer

Springer

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Knowledge, information and quality – these are the three things that shape Springer Science+Business Media’s business activities. They develop, manage and disseminate knowledge – through books, journals and the Internet.

They work with the world’s best academics and authors in long-standing loyal partnerships based on mutual trust and they are always open to new input.. .

DW Deutsche Welle

DW Deutsche Welle

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DW is a German provider of radio and television broadcasting services in Germany and internationally. It is engaged in the production and broadcasting of TV, radio, online content, and programs.

It also offers solutions for smartphones, tablets, live feeds, and on-demand services. DW provides radio and television programs in several languages such as Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, English, German, and more.

It broadcasts television programs, including scientific documentaries, children’s programs, sports, and music in Arabic, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. The company operates a center for media development, media training, journalism, and education programs.

In addition, it provides its users with news and information through its television programs and website. DW was founded in 1953 and is based in Bonn, Germany with an additional office in Berlin.

It operates studios in Moscow, Buenos Aires, Washington, and Brussels.. .

Vogel Communications Group

Vogel Communications Group

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Vogel Communications Group specializes in individual and contemporary communication solutions.

ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH

ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH

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ProSiebenSat.1 Digital is the multimedia company of ProSiebenSat.1 and responsible for a multitude of new media services.

Verlag Dr.Otto Schmidt

Verlag Dr.Otto Schmidt

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Verlag Dr.Otto Schmidt is a high quality.Our lecturers are experts in their field and speak specifically about the topical topics

Grunderszene

Grunderszene

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Gruenderszene is the German-speaking online magazine for the digital industry in Germany. Vertical Media is the publishing house behind the magazine which is based in Berlin.

It started as a privat blog-project of the German serial-entrepreneur [Lukasz Gadowski](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/lukasz-gadowski). Gruenderszene has become a major player in the online coverage of the startup industry in Germany,it delivers news and articles about the German internet, web and tech scene.

Gruenderszene is also an organizer of industry events, such as e.g. the “Spätschicht” event in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich.

The English version of Gründerszene is called VentureVillage.eu. The company was acquired by [Axel Springer](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/axel-springer) in June 2014..

Liberio

Liberio

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Liberio is the easiest way to create and publish high quality eBooks for everyone. No more complicated software and failing ePub exports.

Liberio enables everyone to publish books, tell stories and share knowledge through eBooks for free. We’re redefining how the eBooks market works and democratizing the way people create and publish books in a digital world — whether it’s creating an eBook, magazine, thesis paper, school project, or a culmination of recipes.

Liberio strives to do for eBooks what the App Store platforms did for software: Enable everyone to create, publish and monetize their stories and knowledge. Previous to Liberio’s existence, there was no platform that allowed writers, students, teachers, doctors, parents and others, to easily create a high quality eBook, publish and distribute it.

With Liberio, everyone, not just professionals, can do just that within minutes on an open and free platform, without the need for multiple and often complicated applications, tools and software.. .

Ligatus

Ligatus

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Ligatus is a Native Advertising Solutions provider for brands, publishers, and programmatic buyers. Its mission is to develop solutions that create positive advertising experiences.

It offers publishers a powerful native Supply Side Platform (SSP), along with consulting services, to generate the best revenues coming from high-quality brands. The company helps marketers reach, engage, and convert their target audience with advanced dynamic algorithms that are integrated into our proprietary Demand Side Platform (DSP) or through their preferred native DSP connected to Ligatus.

Ligatus has more than 180 employees in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom. The company is headquartered in Cologne, Germany, and is a 100 percent subsidiary of Gruner + Jahr, which is fully owned by Bertelsmann.

Ligatus delivers more than 37 billion ad impressions per month in over 1,400 Premium partner sites in ten countries.. .

Funke Mediengruppe

Funke Mediengruppe

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Funke Mediengruppe is Germany’s newspaper and magazine publisher company.

Thieme

Thieme

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Thieme is a provider of books, magazines, electronic media, services around medicine and health as well as the adjacent nature sciences.

Posterlounge

Posterlounge

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Posterlounge GmbH is a company based out of Weißenfelser Straße 67, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.

MairDumont

MairDumont

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MAIRDUMONT operates as a travel publisher. The company provides travel, leisure, and mobility media in Europe.

Its media portfolio includes printed and online media, as well as mobile navigation equipment. The company offers communication options, such as advertisements, and online advertising, including advertising forms, booklets and cross-media services, cross-selling opportunities, POS and event-promotion campaigns, and the networking of services.

MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG provides the falk navigator and Internet services, such as falk.de for travelers; the falk branch finder and the falk route planner for business customers; and markets and sells content.

It also develops products and services that include mobile navigation systems, such as the Falk activepilot and Java-based offboard navigation system for mobile telephones; and tailor-made solutions for business customers. The company operates falk.de, gofalk.com, marcopolo.de, and European mobility portals.

It involves in navigation systems and services, geographical information systems, and content segments. MAIRDUMONT was formerly known as Institut Kurt Mair and changed its name to Mairs Geographischer Verlag Kurt Mair GmbH & Co.

KG in 1952. The name was further changed to MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co.

Ernst Klett Verlag

Ernst Klett Verlag

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Ernst Klett Verlag is an educational media publisher company.

Bauer Xcel Meda

Bauer Xcel Meda

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Bauer Xcel Media is the global digital division of the Bauer Media Group. It reaches more than 150 million monthly unique users worldwide.

CDM

CDM

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CDM is an online magazine and community for musicians, sound designers, DJs, and producers using technology. The website covers tools and techniques used in making and sharing music as well as artists using technologies in new and inspiring ways.

Create Digital Music is the creation of editor-in-chief Peter Kirn, a composer and musician, media artist, educator, and technology journalist. Its content and events have been featured in outlets like Boing Boing, Time Out Magazine New York, Popular Science, Men’s Health Magazine, Wired, Current TV, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, and many others.

Create Digital Music is based in Berlin, Germany.. .

Manager Magazin

Manager Magazin

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Manager Magazin is a business and finance magazine published in German. It is a premier source of news that features facts about multinational companies, startups, banking, finance, and lifestyle.

The magazine is published monthly with business and market analysis, feature stories, previews, reports, and more. It focusses in in-depth reports and exclusive news..

GRIN Publishing

GRIN Publishing

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GRIN Publishing is specialized in the publication of academic papers. The publishing website GRIN.com offers students, graduates and university professors the ideal platform for the presentation of scientific texts, such as research projects, theses, dissertations, and academic essays to a wide audience.

The authors are free to decide if they receive monetary benefits from their work, or to simply contribute their publication for the use of others. With up to four million visitors per month, GRIN reaches a huge audience and 93% of all texts find interested readers!.

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

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Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg is a multimedia portal that offers daily news and information updates.

Ruptly

Ruptly

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Ruptly is a 24/7 international video news agency headquartered in Berlin.

WRC

WRC

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WRC is a provider of news and updates on FIA world rally championship.

Walter de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter

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For more than two-hundred and sixty years the name De Gruyter has been synonymous with high-quality, landmark publications in the humanities and natural sciences. The scope of our publishing program includes theology and philosophy, biology and chemistry, linguistics and literature, mathematics and physics, history and archaeology, as well as law and medicine.

In all these areas De Gruyter has consistently partnered with exceptional scholars to establish itself as a key international publisher. To provide high quality products for the academic market.

To offer electronic products in the all subjects areas. To publish approx.

800 books and 170 journals per annum.. .

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

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Smashing Magazine is an online magazine for professional web designers and developers. The magazine covers topics such as coding (CSS, JavaScript, HTML, and techniques); design (web design, typography, inspiration, and business); mobile (iPhone and iPad, Android, and design patterns); graphics (photoshop, fireworks, wallpapers, and freebies); UX design (usability, UI design, user experience, and e-commerce); and WordPress (essentials, techniques, plug-ins, and themes).

Smashing magazine is based in Freiburg, Germany.. .

Spiegel Group

Spiegel Group

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“Der Spiegel” is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe’s largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.

It was founded in 1947 by John Challenor, a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a former Wehrmacht radio operator who was recognized in 2000 by the International Press Institute as one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes. “Spiegel Online”, the online sibling of “Der Spiegel”, was launched in 1994 with an independent editorial staff.

Typically, the magazine has a content to advertising ratio of 2:1. “Der Spiegel” is known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism.

It played a key role in uncovering many political scandals such as the “Spiegel” scandal in 1962 and the Flick affair in the 1980s. According to “The Economist”, “Der Spiegel” is one of continental Europe’s most influential magazines..

STERN

STERN

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STERN is a website and media outlet dedicated to broad world news.

DLD Media

DLD Media

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DLD is a global conference network based on innovation, digitization, science, and culture. DLD is an inspiring community for the 21st century which features digital innovation, science, and culture.

It brings together leaders, creators, entrepreneurs, and investors from Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and Asia. The community meets in various styles and formats throughout the year and around the globe.

The DLD Conference is a three-day event chaired by publisher, Hubert Burda and investor, Joseph Vardi. DLD was co-founded by Stephanie Czerny in 2005 in Munich, Germany..

Rp Digital GmbH

Rp Digital GmbH

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Rp Digital GmbH Solutions is your experienced full service agency in Dusseldorf.

MADSACK Mediengruppe

MADSACK Mediengruppe

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The MADSACK Media Group originates from the year 1893, when the publisher August Madsack founded the Hannoverscher Anzeiger in Hannover. From this, the Media Group developed into one of the largest publishing companies in Germany.

Today, 15 regional daily newspapers belong to the corporate association (amongst others the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Märkische Allgemeine), which provide their readers daily with high-quality journalism. They sell about 850,000 of Their different newspapers per day, and reach a readership of 2.4 million.

A comprehensive range of online offers and offers for mobile devices supplement Their newspapers.. .

Ingenieur.de

Ingenieur.de

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Ingenieur.de is a daily news media website that offers updated information about technical issues for professionals.

t3n Magazin

t3n Magazin

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t3n Magazin is an online magazine that enables its readers to find news and articles about e-businesses, technology solutions, and digital works. t3n Magazin offers an online platform that enables its users to search and find job opportunities related to technology and development, marketing, project management, design, and PR and editing.

t3n Magazin was founded in 2005 by Andreas Lenz. It is headquartered in Hanover, Germany..

circIT

circIT

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circ IT GmbH & Co. KG in Duesseldorf, are one of the leading service provider for the publishing industry with 360 ° service for media.

They design customer processes efficiently and support their customers with their circ IT mediaplatform in marketing of online and print publications. They integrate and operate content management systems and ensure that numerous regional and national publications on the distribution channel print, online and mobile reach their readers seven days a week..

Open Publishing

Open Publishing

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Open Publishing is an online based publishing software which already manages over 200,000 books. They provide an easy way for publishers to publish digital and print on demand books and distribute them in all relevant online bookstores and e-readers worldwide.

Open Publishing offers a variety of basic and advanced features for publishers (like a web presence, e-commerce solution, multi-channel distribution and royalty payments) and makes them accessible both to small publishers and publishing startups trough automation and a competitive price point. Their platform uses an open API and encourages other systems and web applications to integrate with its publishing engine.

Currently they offer integration with systems such as PayPal, Google Analytics and several other services.. .

LOST iN

LOST iN

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LOST iN navigates you through 17 global cities from a local perspective. Releasing every month a new city to discover.

Our network of opinion leaders from a creative background assure the best recommendations: No tourist traps. LOST iN is a mobile app helping you to experience the best out of each destination.

It helps to customize the recommendations based on time, weather and location for each user and to save time. LOST iN print guides are also available in leading retail and concept stores worldwide to inspire offline.

Experience a new city from within.. .

XYRALITY

XYRALITY

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XYRALITY is an independent developer an publisher which creates games that can be played on smartphones and tablets or in the browser.

Fishlabs

Deep Silver FISHLABS

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For more than 15 years Deep Silver FISHLABS has created award-winning, chart-topping games that have been brought to life on millions of screens. Under its belt, the Hamburg-based studio has launched an impressive selection of high-end 3D action, racing, sports, and RPG, and became a reference in developing games with deep and engaging experiences across platforms.

Today, as part of Koch Media and alongside its Deep Silver sister studios across the globe, FISHLABS continues at the forefront of gaming but now as a premium AAA games developer that keeps creating stunning immersive experiences that continue to inspire millions of players worldwide.

Headup GmbH

Headup GmbH

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A hybrid games publishing and development company providing players worldwide with the best content in the independent gaming sector.

Ebner Media Group

Ebner Media Group

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Ebner Media Group is publisher in Ulm, Germany.

DuMont Schauberg

DuMont Schauberg

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The media group M. DuMont (MDS) is one of the large, traditional media companies in Germany.

The core business of the Cologne family business is quality journalism for newspapers and their digital offerings.. .

11 Freunde

11 Freunde

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11FREUNDE has everything important and unimportant in the world of football.

1Advertising Global GmbH.

1Advertising Global GmbH.

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1Advertising is one of the largest European demand-side platform engaged in mobile advertising and based in Germany. With our self-service platform you can get the most advanced targeted traffic from our premium publishing sources.

1Advertisng is a certified provider of a DoubleClick, AppNexus, AOL, BidSwitch, Rubicon, Smaato and more, which means that with our help you will receive a priority seat in real time bidding on our premium publisher’s pool. Get in touch with us and together we will bring your mobile marketing on a whole new level..

WeltN24

WeltN24

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N24 is a news channel in Germany.

ppi Media GmbH

ppi Media GmbH

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ppi Media is a publishing expert with installations around the globe and offices in Hamburg and Kiel, Germany, and Chicago, USA. For more than 30 years we have been developing software for daily newspapers, magazines, corporate publishers as well as corporations and medium-sized companies that covers the entire print and digital production workflow.

ppi Media’s integrated publishing solutions enable the delivery of automatic content for all channels. Daily newspapers and magazines can create both their print products as well as their digital services using ppi Media’s software..

Yieldlove

Yieldlove

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Yieldlove provides Maximum Ad Revenues for Publishers. Our products and solutions are the result of a close collaboration between experienced ad managers, developers, mathematicians and statisticians.

Meet our team of highly passionate and skilled individuals from across the globe, working hand in hand with our extra smart robotic colleagues.. .

Ippen Digital

Ippen Digital

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Ippen Digital is an IT service provider specializing in publishing.

impact Agentur fur Kommunikation

impact Agentur fur Kommunikation

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Impact Agency is a public relations & communications company.

Stroer Media Brands

Stroer Media Brands

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Stroer Media Brands a digital media company that creates and distribute premium content to influencers and digital natives through various digital channels, such as Web, mobile, social media, and public video. The company includes established media brands like GIGA.de (technology, games, entertainment), Gamona.de (games and entertainment), Kino.de (movies and cinema), Spieletipps.de (games), familie.de and desired.de (women and lifestyle), and SpielAffe.de, Kraloyun.com (casual games).

Ströer Media Brands was founded on 2000 and is based in Berlin, Germany.. .

Handelsblatt Global

Handelsblatt Global

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The English-language edition of Germany’s leading business and financial daily.

SciFlow

SciFlow

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SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document.

All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers to check for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text.

With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform.

Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.. .

Hamburger Morgenpost

Hamburger Morgenpost

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Hamburger Morgenpost is a daily German newspaper published in Hamburg in tabloid format.

PSB

PSB

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PSB provides small and medium-size publishers and media companies with competent support.

epubli GmbH

epubli GmbH

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epubli is a young and fast growing company located in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Our self–publishing platform has been supporting the work of independent authors since 2008.

We offer print as well as eBook publishing and distribution—both physical and digital—through all major retailers including Apple, Amazon, Google, and more. With epubli, authors have access to full financial transparency, the highest print–quality, and professional customer service and support.

epubli is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, an enterprise with 2 billion euro revenue and activities in more than 80 countries.. .

Business Advertising GmbH

Business Advertising GmbH

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Business Advertising GmbH operates as an independent B2B online sales house for publisher-driven professional Websites and professional.

XinXii

XinXii

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Digital Self-Publishing Platform

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

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Holtzbrinck Group aspires to provide first class service to our authors, researchers, academics, educators, librarians and readers.

Enorm Magazin

Enorm Magazin

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Enorm is the magazine for social change. It wants to make courage. Constructive, intelligent and solution-oriented.

GoingPublic

GoingPublic

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Established in 1998 Going Public Media AG ( www.goingpublic.ag ) one of the leading media companies around corporate finance and investment topics. Within the framework of its cross-media platform approach, the Group publishes about 90 journal issues annually and operates 8 web platforms in connection with online newsletters and social media presences.

In addition, the media company organizes around 30 events per annum Going Public magazine Capital Market Directory www.goingpublic.de , HV Magazine and various online newsletters / Services form the Capital Markets media. With the platforms Bond Guide ( www.bondguide.de ) and Life Sciences Series ( www.goingpublic.de/lifesciences ) were created here other information available, which are systematically expanded.

Since 2000, acts the Venture Capital Magazin ( www.vc-magazin.de ) as the investment industry in German-speaking Europe platform. The investor magazine Smart Investor ( www.smartinvestor.de ) directed through its subsidiary Smart Investor Media GmbH since 2003 to the discerning private investor.

The Unternehmeredition ( www.unternehmeredition.de ) turns to the (families) entrepreneurs, FOUNDATION ( www.die-stiftung.de ) has approximately 17,000 recipients range-strongest tracks around the foundation sector in the German-speaking countries (daughter FOUNDATION Media GmbH) . Since January 2011, includes the M & A Review ( www.ma-review.de ), magazine for M & A professionals in the portfolio.

Along with the multi-lingual (German / Chinese) Platform M & A China / Germany ( www.ma-dialogue.com ) and the agency for the Federation M & A ( www.bm-a.de ) created here a separate area of Mergers & Acquisitions. In the Corporate Publishing division, the service activities are bundled; Brochures and customer magazines are created here..

Bookwire

Bookwire

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Bookwire offers software solutions and digital services for the publishing industry.

CoinCrunch

CoinCrunch

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Cryptocurrency Bitcoin News from around the globe

TITANIC

TITANIC

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TITANIC The final satirical magazine. Gazette for Zwitscherer.

Bigitec Studio

Bigitec Studio

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Digital Islamic Content

HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH

HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH

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HB offers its services in print, websites, events, motorsport, corporate design, and publication of books & calender.

brand eins Verlag

brand eins Verlag

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brand eins Verlag is a Germany-based company that publishes business magazines and other publications for its customer base.

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