Axel Springer SE is the leading digital publisher in Europe. The digital media channels already contribute more than 50 percent of total pro-forma revenues today. Through consistent internationalization and digitization, Axel Springer SE is not only German's market leader in the printing business but also through subsidiaries, joint ventures and licenses active in more than 40 countries. Now it's about to pursue the digitization faster and more vigorously. For Axel Springer SE, informative and entertaining journalism is also a viable business model in the future, along with marketing and classified ads, the other two business fields the company is traditionally strong. In the tradition of their founder, who was ahead of his time pursuing journalistic and technological innovation, the Axel Springer SE moves in new directions. The company ist dedicated to the goal of building a growth-and-yield digital portfolio, and thus connects now more than ever with today’s generation of founders: digital start-ups. Along with the transformation of our established strong media brands, our 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 media group.