We connect established companies, start-ups, institutions and universities as well as content creators.
We promote and support new teams, ideas, products, business models and entire companies.
We sit down with experts and talk about the important topics of the future.
We make Hamburg visible as the digital media metropole.
After three months of interdisciplinary collaboration, the 20 students in this year’s Prototyping Lab presented their findings at the Reveal. With the support of their partner companies, they have developed remarkable prototypes.
The five startups from Batch 3 of our incubator are working hard on their ideas – soon they will present their progress at the Graduation Pitch. Until then, you can get to know the participants better by checking out the deep dives in our blog.
Which technologies shape the work of journalists? What innovations does the media need? Answers to these and many other questions will be provided at our Innovation Conference for Media on September 15th and 16th. Get your free ticket now.
Innovation can’t be planned – but it can be played! With the nextMedia Edition of the game Moonshot, we have developed an innovation game that is specifically tailored to the skills and challenges of the media industry.
We support start-ups, develop prototypes and strengthen innovation skills and knowledge.
Start-ups from our previous batches
musicube is revolutionizing the search for music with artificial intelligence. The start-up has developed a semantic music search that can be used to answer very individual and almost any search queries.
Publishing in the voice-first world: With its text-to-speech technology, BotTalk supports news publishers in their audio strategy and enables them to place their content and digital products as audio on their website.
Prototypes from our previous labs
A music prediction machine, a filter to identify fake ads and an intelligent database for recipe searches. Students from four Hamburg universities have developed impressive prototypes for SPIEGEL, N-JOY and Bauer Media.
At the first Prototyping Lab, students worked on virtual & augmented reality applications for newsrooms. One of the three teams produced the 10-minute VR live experience “Behind the Moon” for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, which was published on Spiegel Online.
Projects
Together, MaibornWolff, BKK VBU and Carlsen Verlag took advantage of interdisciplinary collaboration and developed an impressive prototype in a very short time: an AR-based app that playfully and individually encourages children to exercise more and adopt health-conscious behavior.
A virtual city tour, a seamless travel experience and an utopia of the mobile world in 2034 – the project results of the first edition of Content Foresight show how content consumption could change in the coming years due to changing mobility offerings.
At our events we develop ideas and discuss topics surrounding the future of the media industry together with international experts and important players in Hamburg’s media and digital scene.
Which innovations do media need? And which ideas for the future of journalism can already be realized? nextMedia.Hamburg invites together with the dpa German Press Agency GmbH experts, decision makers and innovators of the IT and media industry to discuss trends and current topics at the interface between editorial, programming and product development.
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Media innovations – and the industry as a whole – thrive on an open, cooperative network. So do we. Here is a selection of our partners and supporters:
