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AVIV is one of the world’s largest digital real estate tech companies and a subsidiary of Axel Springer. Its unique family of leading brands includes some of Europe’s best-known digital real estate marketplaces: Groupe SeLoger in France, Immowelt in Germany and Immoweb in Belgium.

Ait talks about the strategy and transformation of AVIV, how they simplify the real estate buying and selling process and how the real estate market will develop in our current macroeconomic environment.

In this special edition of On the Record, Mathias reflects on the decisions announced for our German media business and why they were taken, what these decisions mean for our businesses outside Germany, the future role of AI for journalism, and where the HQ of Axel Springer will be in the future.

In this episode of on the record, we welcomed Sebastian Dettmers, CEO of StepStone.

Founded 25 years ago as an online job board, StepStone has become one of the world’s next-generation recruitment platforms offering AI-powered cutting-edge recruiting services. Their mission: Helping companies to hire the right talent.

Sebastian talks about how and why StepStone’s business thrives, the increasing importance of data in the job search market, and – of course –the big trend all mature economies face: the great people shortage.

In this episode of ‘on the record’, our CEO Mathias Döpfner reflects on an all-hands meeting of the French division the AVIV group he attended last week – and as you can hear, he is still very much impressed by the company’s spirit. AVIV, our classifieds business unit, is about to disrupt the European real estate market. Their vision: Changing the way European consumers buy, sell, rent, or lend properties. The second topic of this episode focuses on the first “anniversary” of Russia’s invasion into Ukraine (5:49). No matter for how long the Ukrainian fight for freedom will continue, Mathias...

In this episode, Mathias refers to an interview he gave the German news agency dpa last week. He outlines three messages which were quite important for him: the focus on international growth, his firm conviction of a digital-only future of journalism, and the reflection of the satisfactory fiscal year 2022.
Furthermore, he reveals his theme for 2023 and why –for him– NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg shows real leadership.

Goli Sheikholeslami talks about her first months heading the Washington-based media powerhouse, her learnings, and her business strategy that entails some exciting plans both for the US and the European markets.

In this fifth episode, Mathias looks back on a turbulent but also successful year 2022 and an anniversary that symbolically stands for a fundamental change in the media industry. He also expresses his sincere thanks to all Axel Springer employees for their commitment and hard work and gives an outlook on 2023: A year that will be again both exciting and challenging.

Since July 2022, Niddal Salah-Eldin has served as President of the new Talent & Culture board division at Axel Springer. In this episode of #on the record', she speaks about why and how she wants to update Axel Springer's cultural "OS", why culture is crucial for success, and how she defines diversity.

In the third episode of "on the record", Axel Springer's CEO Mathias Döpfner talks about:
• Recent strategic decisions on Axel Springer’s German news business
• What led to the departure of Ulrike Handel
• A self-critical look back to a very tumultuous chapter of the company
• The FIFA World Cup in Qatar and his hope for a debate on the limits of tolerance for intolerance

In the second episode of "on the record," Axel Springer's CEO Mathias Döpfner talks about what freedom means to him and why freedom is the core value that guides us in everything we do. Mathias does not deny the fact that freedom and free media are currently threatened - both ideologically and economically - and explains why courage and entrepreneurship are even more important now.