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Gründerszene March 19, 2019

Bad report

Only four of the 25 start-up promises made by the German government have been implemented to date. The industry association Bitkom has taken a close ...

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Projekt Zukunft March 18, 2019

Game streaming to touch in the Berlin CityCube

Trade fairs – also known as conventions or cons – have been an integral part of today's fan culture for quite some time. Cons began ...

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Industry news & Market trends February 28, 2019

GA Radio will be switched off in Berlin on March 1, 2019.

The MEGA Radio station on Berlin's DAB+ channel 7 B will cease broadcasting on 1 March 2019. Too bad. What are the reasons?

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Industry news & Market trends February 19, 2019

Do we need a foundation for our data?

The misuse of user data by platform operators is becoming a major problem. Would foundations be suitable to negotiate terms of use?

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Industry news & Market trends February 12, 2019

Spotify buys podcast label Gimlet

Spotify goes to podcast. The music streaming giant Spotify has now bought the podcast label "Gimlet Media" - probably for the considerable sum of 230 ...

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Industry news & Market trends February 8, 2019

Look here: German animated film is a hit abroad

The animated film seems to be on the advance. At any rate, this is what the figures published by German Films Marketing + Service GmbH ...

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Industry news & Market trends January 24, 2019

Club Transmediale (CTM) starts

On Friday the Club Transmediale (CTM) starts in Berlin. The "Festival for Adventurous Music" takes place for the 20th time. A look back and a ...

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Industry news & Market trends January 22, 2019

German film is becoming more feminine

Last year, the ratio between women and men in the key positions of director and screenwriter at the FFA's project film funding agency was almost ...

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Industry news & Market trends January 15, 2019

Christoph Links hands over his publishing house

Christoph Links sells his publishing house. What's the reason for it?

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Industry news & Market trends January 8, 2019

Free admission to all museums soon?

The new Humboldt Forum in Berlin wants to open its doors free of charge. Minister of State for Culture Grütters sees this as an attempt. ...

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Tagesspiegel December 18, 2018

Association "Pro Quote Stage" takes stock after one year

Last year the association "Pro Quote Bühne" was founded, which fights for equal rights in theatre. In the Sophiensälen now the balance was drawn.

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Industry news & Market trends December 14, 2018

Study: The smartphone is not a book killer

At the end of November, the JIM study on the media usage behaviour of young people was published. Every second girl, but only every third ...

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Industry news & Market trends December 14, 2018

First German Social Entrepreneurship Monitor published

More and more people in Germany are deciding to become social entrepreneurs. Particularly in view of global challenges such as digitization and globalization, the motivation ...

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Industry news & Market trends December 6, 2018

Germans reward social brand commitment

57 percent of German citizens buy as far as possible only from companies that credibly pursue a higher purpose ("Purpose") and thereby earn themselves a ...

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Industry news & Market trends November 29, 2018

How streaming influences pop music

Audio streaming has been the largest sales segment of the German music market since mid-2018. What impact does this have on the pop music segment?

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Industry news & Market trends November 2, 2018

New innovation campus in Berlin

Siemens will realize its innovation campus in Berlin with investments of around 600 million euros. Is that good?

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Industry news & Market trends November 1, 2018

Lower VAT for digital press coming

The EU approves low VAT for digital press: Printed books, newspapers and magazines have so far been subject to the reduced VAT rate in Europe, ...

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Industry news & Market trends November 1, 2018

New Spotify balance sheet: 'only' 4 million paying new customers in the third quarter

Does Apple's marketing power now leave its mark? In the September quarter, the second accounting period since the IPO, the Swedish streaming pioneer Spotify continued ...

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Industry news & Market trends November 1, 2018

Big head start for the small dealers?

The gap in sales development between independent booksellers and chain stores is wide from 1 January to 28 October 2018. While the independent product ranges ...

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Industry news & Market trends October 27, 2018

Remedy through a new law: self-employed persons should be able to afford health insurance in future

Many self-employed people have so far often switched to private health insurance because the statutory carnken funds were too expensive - and ended up in ...

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Industry news & Market trends October 27, 2018

IBB presents updated sustainability report

How 'sustainable' is Berlin? The Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) presents a second update of its first sustainability report from 2016. The report contains, among other things, ...

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Tagesspiegel October 26, 2018

6.3 million euros for the Exile Museum

The collection of art dealer Bernd Schultz will be auctioned off for the benefit of the new Berlin Exilmuseum.

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Tagesspiegel October 17, 2018

100 million euros for the digitisation of German film heritage

Ten million every year: The Federal Film Board, the State Ministry of Culture and the federal states finance the digitisation of Germany's film heritage.

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