May 18, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Germany has a new free small ads platform. It was developed in-house by media group Die Heisse Draht in Hanover, is called Smazaar.de and was launched on May 13. Smazaar.de is unusual, in the sense that it narrowly targets a user group, namely the smartphone-carrying, social-media generation, which is a predominantly younger-than-40 market. And it’s interesting, because the media group created...
May 14, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Axel Springer, one of Germany’s leading media groups, is about to make history. When its digital division replaces its newspaper division as the group’s biggest revenue-generator in the second quarter, Axel Springer will be the first multimedia group in Germany to rid itself of its dependence on print to become a digital-driven media group.The group released its financial results for the first quarter recently....
April 12, 2012
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By Christo Volschenk
Jacob Aqraou (photo), senior vice president of EBay Marketplaces Europe, created a new position at the top of the German team, changed the reporting lines of senior management and announced a number of internal promotions in his Berlin-based team.According to a media release, Aqraou created the new position of vice president EBay Marketplaces Germany and promoted Bob van Dijk (photo), current head of EBay’s...
April 10, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
With the fight for dominance in Germany’s big, lucrative verticals in an advanced stage (some will say over), the attention is now shifting to the less glamorous, but also potentially lucrative, second-row verticals, such as obituaries, weddings, animals and baby portals. The Markt.Gruppe, the joint venture of German media groups Georg von Holtzbrinck, WAZ and Dr. Ippen, today bought...
April 5, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Markt.de, the free small ads platform of the Markt.Gruppe in Germany, relaunched its sub-portal for artisan services. The more user-friendly, free sub-portal offers all kinds of services, including carpentry, electrical services, auto repair services, gardening and cleaning services.The Markt.Gruppe is a joint venture of the media groups Georg von Holtzbrinck, Dr. Ippen and WAZ.
According to Markt.de, its...
By Christo Volschenk
Christian Unger (44) handed his job as CEO of Ringier, Switzerland’s biggest media group, over to a colleague Marc Walder (46) and left the company. A Ringier media release said Unger “will be accepting new responsibilities”. A spokesman in Ringier’s communication department confirmed Unger will be looking for new responsibilities outside Ringier. He also said he can’t be more specific, because “Unger doesn...
April 4, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Job portal Stepstone, a subsidiary of German media group Axel Springer, acquired Britain’s leading job portal Totaljobs.co.uk from Reed Business Information for €132 million ($172 million U.S.), Axel Springer announced today. It was the first acquisition of a classifieds platform outside Germany since Axel Springer and General Atlantic (GA) formed a joint venture early last month, aimed at speeding up the internationalization of Axel Springer’s...
March 22, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Helmar Hipp, CEO of VM Digital and the print business of Quoka in Germany since 2005, will move to photo book publisher Ifolor as CEO in June. VM Digital and Quoka are subsidiaries of Vorarlberger Medienhaus (VM), an Austrian media group owned by the...By Linda Karlsson
Stepstone wants to catch the big fish: Last week, the Axel Springer-owned job site announced a new key account team dedicated to Germany’s DAX 30 companies. The new sales force will be led by Tobias Welzel, who was Stepstone’s head of partner sales between 2007 and 2010, and now returns to the company as head of business development. Today Stepstone’s portfolio consists of 12,000 companies around the world...