• Strong creative industries with 30,000 companies, a workforce of over 220,000 and roughly

• 20 billion in annual revenues

• Media and IT cluster with 17,000 companies and a workforce of over 170,000

• Nr. 1 film region with major international productions

• Headquarters of Axel Springer AG, Universal Music Germany, MTV Networks, N24,DW-TV and rbb

• Leading games cluster, strongest design cluster

• Capital of innovative new companies in the field of Web 2.0, games and mobile communications

• Germany’s music capital with an annual turnover of €1 billion

• Highest concentration of national and international radio stations

• Most varied newspaper region and Germany’s strongest publishing location

• International event location: Berlinale, medienwoche@IFA, German Film Awards, German
Games Days, German Computer Awards, Bambi, animago AWARD, re:publica, ECHO Awards,
Berlin Music Week, Berlin Fashion Week, Bread & Butter

• Reference region for UMTS and DVB-T

• Unique environment for science, research and education in Europe