About OMR

As far as attendance goes, the OMR Festival is one of the world’s largest events the industry has to offer. In 2024, the OMR Festival drew 67,000 people to Hamburg. The two-day event features Masterclasses, Guided Tours, Side Events and Exhibitors from around the digital economy. Keynotes held on both days across six stages by 800 speakers provided those in attendance insights on current trends and developments straight from those at the forefront. These speakers include industry experts, digital decision trailblazers, founders, investors and celebrities, such as Kim Kardashian, Kara Swisher, Tim Ferriss, Jeff Koons, Rick Rubin and the Federal Ministers Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner. Since 2015, the OMR Festival has accompanied the OMR Festival connecting 1000 exhibitors and partners with experts and actors from all around the digital business space. The Finance Forward conference features insights on current trends in the fintech, neo-banking and financial sectors.

The OMR Editorial team delivers original content daily in the form of articles, newsletters and podcasts, each of which features insights into the latest across the digital marketing industry, in-depth analysis of trends and developments, as well as startup success stories. Learn more on omr.com.

Podstars by OMR is Germany's leading podcast network with a 360° approach. Since 2015, the company has stood for crystal-clear listening experiences, auditory entertainment, unique and native advertising and expertise in the podcast industry. The team advises partners strategically on advertising and production opportunities and can draw on years of experience and a diverse portfolio. These include the "OMR Podcast" with Philipp Westermeyer, "Fast & Curious" with Lea-Sophie Cramer and Verena Pausder, "1 auf die Ohren" with Knossi, "FUSSBALL MML" with Micky Beisenherz, Maik Nöcker and Lucas Vogelsang and many more (including award-winning and chart-placed) podcasts.

Every year, over 50,000 specialists undergo further training in the fields of digital marketing and HR with the training courses offered by OMR Education. The formats include practical guides, online seminars, e-learning courses and the OMR Education podcast. All courses are available 100% online and are designed to impart practical and directly applicable knowledge.

OMR Reviews is the largest German software review platform with over 60,000 independent software reviews on over 8,000 tools. OMR Reviews features authentic reports from actual users to bring transparency to the SaaS market. Thus, OMR Reviews is able to provide much-needed clarity in an otherwise confusing market to give decision-makers certainty when buying software products. In the OMR Reviews ContentHub, there are over 1,000 different articles on the topics of software and tools, aimed to help users make better decisions.

With OMR Jobs & HR, we connect people from the digital business with companies looking for talents. On our online marketing job platform you will find the relevant job advertisements of the industry. As part of the OMR family, OMR Jobs & HR reaches people interested in digital marketing and professionals from the entire DACH region with all its products. With our various event and content formats, we offer companies a platform to position themselves as an attractive employer within the target group and to get in touch with potential candidates. We also offer special training formats for the HR sector. OMR Jobs & HR provides educational, inspiring content via our blog and podcast.

OMR 5050 is committed to more equality in the work environment. The initiative's vision: real equality in the economy and gender parity in management positions. To get closer to this goal, 5050 offers a platform for topics relating to equality and new leadership – whether in the 5050 podcast, in the 5050 newsletter, at events or with its own stage at the OMR Festival.

The OMR Original documentary series features unique stories from the German business world, providing a glimpse behind the scenes of fast-growing startups, influential companies from the marketing world and unique careers in the media industry. Previous releases include a portrait of former star and since convicted executive Thomas Middelhoff ("Middelhoff - Der krasse Fall eines Managers") and the German advertising agency Jung von Matt ("Dreißig Jahre unzufrieden - Die Jung von Matt Story"). This was followed in 2023 by "Hell of a Ride - The Unique Story of Gorillas," an OMR Original about the rise of the fast delivery service Gorillas, which performed spectacularly at first, but then sold at a fraction of its initial billion-dollar value. All OMR Originals released so far have been created in collaboration with external production companies and are available on OMR's YouTube channel.

OMR X is the official startup vertical by OMR. OMR X supports startups in the OMR cosmos and connects founders, investors and everyone interested in startups. OMR X also invests as a business angel in startups like Koro, Appinio and Recommendy.

Finance Forward is the outlet dedicated to covering all the trends, developments, highlights and lowlights of the new world of finance. A cooperation between business magazine Capital and OMR, the Finance Forward editorial team reports on the fintech scene, banking industry and the world of blockchains, while also providing daily news, analyses, portraits and interviews. Formats include the daily blog, daily newsletter and weekly Finance Forward podcast hosts, where host Caspar Schlenk sits down with influential players from the world of finance every Wednesday. At the annual Finance Forward conference, which takes place as part of the OMR Festival, established experts take a look at the transformation of the financial world and discuss current developments in lectures, panels and fireside chats.