Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Media and entertainment companies based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 163 media and entertainment companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 16,747 professional contacts across them, including 3,766 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers media and entertainment companies headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest media and entertainment companies based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,988 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,466 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “RTL Deutschland, together with Gruner + Jahr, is Germany's leading entertainment company, spanning all types of media: TV and streaming, print and digital, radio and podcasts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,622 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With 23 million customers across six countries, Sky is Europe’s leading media and entertainment company and is proud to be part of the Comcast group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,481 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ProSiebenSat.1 is the home of popular entertainment and infotainment and a leading entertainment player in the German-speaking region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,331 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With around 10,500 employees and over 500 brands world-wide, Hubert Burda Media is one of Germany’s largest technology and media companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,323 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bertelsmann is a media, services, and education company with more than employees that operates in some 50 countries around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,078 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In der Seven.One Entertainment Group vereinen wir unsere Sendermarken sowie all unsere Inhalte und deren Vermarktung unter einem Dach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cinemo is a global provider of highly innovative infotainment products that make every screen an opportunity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are JustWatch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Bavaria Film GmbH bildet zusammen mit ihren Tochtergesellschaften eine moderne und breit aufgestellte Unternehmensgruppe in der deutschsprachigen Film, TV- und…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovative Ideen in einem Start-up-Umfeld umsetzen und gleichzeitig Teil einer großen traditionellen Mediengruppe sein?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Marke TVN steht für innovative Medienprojekte weltweit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Edel is one of Europe’s leading independent media groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Im Jahr 1958 wurde die WDR mediagroup, damals noch unter dem Namen Westdeutsches Werbefernsehen (WWF) GmbH, als 100-prozentige Tochter des Westdeutschen Rundfunks gegründet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Florida Entertainment GmbH is one of Germany’s leading independent production companies, covering the full spectrum of entertainment genres through its network of creative labels…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “2018 feierten wir als Medienholding Klambt unser 175-jähriges Bestehen als starkes, unabhängiges, mittelständisches Familienunternehmen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ZDF Studios is a commercial subsidiary of ZDF, one of the largest TV broadcasters in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als modernes und innovatives Medienunternehmen bündelt die Bremedia ihre Expertise aus Fernseh‑, Film‑, Hörfunk- sowie crossmedialen Angeboten und ist als hundertprozentige…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bewegtbild ist unser Geschäft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “September 1988 - Das "on air"-Signal leuchtet hell auf.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir machen Fernsehen für alle – unterhaltsam, wertschätzend, glamourös, optisch innovativ, wiedererkennbar und unique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind das Medienunternehmen für erfolgreiche Inhalte.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Wiedemann & Berg Film wurde 2003 von Quirin Berg und Max Wiedemann gegründet, gefolgt von der Gründung der W&B Television 2010.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STUDIOCANAL, das firmeneigene Studio von Canal+, ist das führende Studio für Filme und Serien in Europa mit weltweiten Produktions- und Vertriebskanälen und tätig in neun…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: media and entertainment companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names media and entertainment companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of media and entertainment companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name media and entertainment companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Media and entertainment companies based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 163 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among media and entertainment companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “media and entertainment companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names media and entertainment companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among media and entertainment companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,766 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names media and entertainment companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many media and entertainment companies are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 163 media and entertainment companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Bauer Media Group, headquartered in Hamburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most media and entertainment companies?
Berlin leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Munchen (19) and Koln (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,766 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 163 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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