Christian spoke about the cultural and strategic challenges companies and especially financial institutions face when embarking on a digital transformation journey. As part of the lineup of this year’s Finance Innovation Day 3.0 (hosted by Solit Finance), Christian discussed with 120 leaders from the banking and insurance industry.

Christian gave a keynote on agile business model development, the build measure learn framework and its potential applications for medium and large enterprises. In his speech, which was hosted by the Cologne Chamber of Commerce in its digital lab series (program in German: https://www.ihk-koeln.de/I0210016019.AxCMS), he addressed 50 companies from the Cologne…

Media Policy publication promedia published an in-depth article written by Christian Zabel and Sven Pagel about the main results of their study about German Video Creators. Get the full text here (in German): http://www.tv-plattform.de/images/stories/archiv/2016/promedia-IFA-DTVP-9-2016.pdf

National Newspaper „Der Tagesspiegel“ on the major findings of the first comprehensive survey of German online video producers, conducted by Prof. Dr. Christian Zabel and Prof. Dr. Sven Pagel on behalt of Film and Media Commission NRW. Find the full text here (in German): http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/studie-ueber-youtuber-in-deutschland-macht-es-wie-lefloid/13951646.html

Christian Zabel presented the findings from the first quasi-representative survey of German online video creators on youtube. The study was carried out on behalf of Germany’s Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and contains the full responses of 212 of the country’s 28.000+ youtube video creators. During this year’s medienforum.nrw, he relayed to…

Christian Zabel about the emerging group of online video creators, relaying the major conclusions from his youtube story. Access the full audio here (in German): http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/wdr5-scala-aktuelle-kultur/audio-medienforum-nrw—next-level-online-television-100.html

Christian Zabel will host the content marketing summit taking place during this year’s medienforum.NRW in Cologne, June 9. Topics will span from content creation & strategy to implementation issues.

Presented the research paper on „Innovation Management in Media Companies: The Case of Online Video Production by Newspapers in Germany“ during the worldwide media economic research community’s bi-annual global conference in New York from Mai 2 to Mai 5.

Keynote as part of a seminar series on business models in the digital industries as part of JGU’s master in media management. Host was Prof. Dr. Bjorn von Rimscha.

Discussion on challenges and solutions for emerging digital journalism on day 2 of University of Hamburg’s conference „digital journalism – disruptive practices of a new paradigm“ for more information see twitter hashtag #digijour2015 and article links (in German): http://www.dirkhansen.net/masse-macht-oeffentlichkeit/ https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/zapp/blog/Digitaler-Journalismus-Zeit-zu-handeln,digijour100.html