Media Publishing in Europe

European media publishing vertical: 19 companies across 16 countries, plus 36 European software listings serving the sector.

Vertical at a glance

  • 19 companies
  • 36 software listings serving this vertical
  • 16 countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, United Kingdom

Companies

  • TNW Conference, Netherlands: Tech festival in Amsterdam by The Next Web.
  • How To Web, Romania: Romanian startup and innovation conference.
  • IGMaudio, Belgium: IGMaudio is a high end mastering studio serving music, film, and gaming productions that demand absolute sonic control and reliability.
  • Mappy, France: Mappy is the leading Made in France mobility platform, attracting 10 million unique visitors every month.
  • SaaStr Europa, United Kingdom: SaaS community conference for European market.
  • t3n, Germany: German digital business and tech magazine.
  • Arctic Startup, Finland: Nordic startup ecosystem news and events.
  • TechCrunch Europe, United Kingdom: Global tech media with European coverage.
  • The Next Web, Netherlands: TNW is a media and events organisation that covers global technology news, innovation, and ecosystems. It provides insights into startups, funding, and policy for tech professionals and decision-makers.
  • Maddyness, France: Maddyness is a French media outlet focused on innovation and the future economy. It serves entrepreneurs, investors, and business professionals with daily news, sector analysis, and dedicated databases on the tech ecosystem.
  • Silicon Canals, Netherlands: Silicon Canals is a media outlet covering global innovation ecosystems, technology policy, and the psychology of work. It provides news on funding, regulation, and startup development for founders and operators.
  • Tech.eu, Belgium: Tech.eu is an online publication and data provider dedicated to the European technology and startup ecosystem. It delivers news, market intelligence reports, and industry events for founders, investors, and researchers.
  • Gründerszene, Germany: German startup ecosystem news and reports.
  • Techzine, Netherlands: European B2B tech journalism and analysis.
  • EU-Startups, Germany: News and resources for European startups.
  • Wired UK, United Kingdom: UK edition of technology and culture magazine.
  • Sifted, United Kingdom: European startup news and analysis by FT.
  • Wirtualna Polska Holding S.A., Poland: A leading Polish technology and media company operating news and entertainment portals and various e-commerce businesses.
  • Venture Beat EU, United Kingdom: AI and tech media with European stories.

Software serving this vertical

  • 4ALLPORTAL GmbH, Germany: 4ALLPORTAL centralizes product data and media in one flexible PIM & DAM platform – automating workflows and accelerating growth across all channels.
  • Jahia, France: Jahia provides an Enterprise CMS and Digital Experience Platform (DXP) to help brands deliver personalized customer journeys across websites and web portals.
  • freispace, Germany: ERP for Media: AI-powered scheduling and planning software to automate and streamline workflows, with time tracking, billing/invoicing and task management.
  • alugha GmbH, Germany: Alugha is Europe's GDPR-compliant video hosting platform with AI translation in 200+ languages, voice cloning, and multilingual publishing.
  • AI Agent B.V., Netherlands: EU-sovereign AI implementation partner. We build and deploy AI agents and custom software that run on your own infrastructure under your control.
  • Profuz Digital, Bulgaria: Profuz Digital provides advanced software solutions for business process automation, media asset management, and subtitling, including the SubtitleNEXT and Profuz LAPIS platforms.
  • Jet-Stream BV, Netherlands: Video hosting, live streaming, radio streaming and podcast hosting. Jet-Stream is Europe's sovereign streaming platform with transcoding, packaging, multi-CDN, player, analytics and security. GDPR proof, green hosting.
  • Cradle CMS & eCommerce, Sweden: Cradle CMS is a self-hosted content management system and eCommerce software written in Go.
  • ztix GmbH, Germany: ztix provides a comprehensive web-based ticketing system and ticket shop solutions for event organizers, concerts, theaters and festivals.
  • Seznam.cz, a.s., Czech Republic: Seznam Email is a secure Czech email service with EU-based data hosting, proprietary spam protection, modern UI, calendar, and support for standard protocols.
  • Quickchannel, Sweden: A European based end-to-end secure and compliant video platform for planning, hosting, managing, distributing and analyzing live and on-demand video content within a seamless workflow.
  • Maptoolkit, Austria: A provider of high-quality Geo APIs including vector and raster maps, geocoding, and routing services for developers.
  • rushes.cc, United Kingdom: rushes is a community and ad-free video hosting platform for filmmakers and video professionals.
  • EAB Global Oy - European Artist Bank, Finland: Empowering creators with true ownership, seamless monetisation, and unparalleled copyright protection A home for all kinds of Art in the digital age
  • ConSys GmbH - Digital Signage, Austria: ConSys is a provider of digital signage solutions, offering hardware and software services for professional display systems. We place strong emphasis on reliable support and customer satisfaction and position ourselves as a full-service partner covering planning, implementation, and ongoing operation and maintenance.
  • Willow, Belgium: Willow is a social media platform that combines AI content generation and human social media coaching to help B2B companies grow online through consistency.
  • Assess4me, Belgium: Through actual gamification we discover more soft skills than ever. No more hiring based on gut-feeling from rehearsed interviews. Insightful data that shows if someone thrives under pressure and makes the right calls. Assess4me makes sure you know someone and can have deeper conversations. This makes your hiring choice more data-backed and less gut feeling first.
  • Branding5, Austria: Branding5 provides an AI-powered brand positioning and strategy toolkit to help businesses develop marketing plans and increase revenue through automated insights.
  • PixelUnion, Netherlands: PixelUnion provides a privacy-focused photo management platform designed to help users move their data away from large American technology corporations.
  • Translucide, France: Translucide specializes in the custom creation of eco-designed and accessible websites.
  • Soda Zitron Media FlexCo, Austria: Soda Zitron Media is a fully local, European media initiative with no subscriptions and no reliance on proprietary ecosystems. Founded by former Visual Effects professionals with Hollywood experience, it positions itself as a European alternative to closed tools. The team develops independent AI workflows, including custom LoRA training, built on open source infrastructure for high end content production.
  • CoreSTX, Bulgaria: End‑to‑end enterprise IT operations through modular products covering network architecture, cybersecurity, cloud, identity, and infrastructure management.
  • Respira for WordPress, Romania: A WordPress plugin and MCP that provides a safe workflow for AI coding assistants to edit WordPress sites directly via a duplicate-first architecture, eliminating the need for SSH. It also teaches AI coding tools how to "speak" the language of the most popular WordPress page builders for pixel perfect results.
  • Inlägg, Sweden: A Swedish social media platform focused on verified users, privacy, and an ad-free experience without harassment or tracking.
  • The Palette, France: Palette is an AI-powered visual engine that turns your website into on-brand marketing assets in under 60 seconds. You just paste your URL, Palette analyzes your logo, colors, tone of voice and offers, then automatically generates professional, ready-to-publish visuals for social, ads and campaigns — no agency, no freelancers, no Canva templates.
  • Etsetra, United Kingdom: Etsetra provides an AI-powered, no-code website building platform that allows users to create professional, mobile-friendly, and SEO-optimized websites in minutes.
  • SAPO, Portugal: Portugal's largest web portal and ISP service family, providing email, file transfer, news and search from a Portuguese operator.
  • Geek Room, Albania: Geek Room is Albania's leading tech media, boasting a community of over 140,000 followers and millions of monthly views, founded by Brenton Bënja. Honoured as a Deloitte Impact Star for innovation and societal contribution, it attends 6+ major international tech events annually to provide live coverage. The platform serves as a regional hub, offering expert reviews and daily tech news in EN, IT, ES, and all Western Balkan languages. It bridges the gap between complex tech and a diverse audience.
  • Nostwave, Poland: Nostwave is where your favorite memories come alive, a social platform that organizes the things you love by the decade they belong to. From vinyl to streaming, relive it all. 9 Chapters. 45 Years of Memories.
  • NumericPath, Finland: VectorStyler is a professional vector graphics and illustration application for macOS and Windows, with no subscription.
  • NumericPath, Finland: VectorStyler is a professional vector graphics and illustration application for macOS and Windows.
  • Godot Foundation, Netherlands: Godot is a free, open-source 2D and 3D game engine that provides a comprehensive set of tools for game development.
  • OpinionPoint, Denmark: OpinionPoint is a new Danish social media platform, 100% data sovereign and GDPR-compliant, designed for humans, discussion and community engagement.
  • Hudd, Norway: Hudd is a Scandinavian social platform for real communities. We are algorithm-free, have no fake accounts, and never sell personal data. Hudd is used by individuals, municipalities, associations, and businesses across the Nordics to build trusted, meaningful connections without noise or manipulation.
  • KARMA, France: KARMA is the alternative search engine dedicated to protecting animals and biodiversity
  • Steady Media GmbH, Germany: Steady provides a platform for independent publishers to offer paid memberships, send newsletters, and monetize their content with easy-to-use tools.