Top 50 Publishings in Germany

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest publishings in Germany, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 265 publishings tracked in Germany, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Cornelsen, Boyens Medien and Taschen lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4,246,133 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 235,297, and the largest, Cornelsen, reaches around 1,864,296 people in Germany. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with each publishing, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Germany and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Cornelsen	1,864,296	94.4%	Publishing	Kids & Family
2	Boyens Medien	1,763,298	98.8%	Publishing	News
3	Taschen	618,539	38.9%	Publishing	Literature
4	Studio Ghibli	472,641	2.8%	Publishing	Literature
5	Presses Universitaires de France	385,121	68.8%	Publishing	Literature
6	Ullstein Verlag	344,900	94.2%	Publishing	Literature
7	Bauer Media Group	324,058	85.1%	Publishing	Literature
8	Piper Verlag	317,904	83.2%	Publishing	Literature
9	Bastei Lübbe	317,692	90.4%	Publishing	Literature
10	Kosmos (publisher)	309,147	14.1%	Publishing	Literature
11	HarperCollins	256,500	10.4%	Publishing	Literature
12	Amigo Spiele	255,283	19.1%	Publishing	Games
13	Rowohlt Verlag	238,243	85.7%	Publishing	Literature
14	Random House	229,212	17.4%	Publishing	Literature
15	Goldmann (publisher)	223,130	78.5%	Publishing	Literature
16	S. Fischer Verlag	212,803	79.3%	Publishing	Literature
17	Carlsen Verlag	194,351	55.1%	Publishing	Literature
18	Holiday House	185,348	3.0%	Publishing	Home & Garden
19	Royal Society	183,930	23.1%	Publishing	Business & Career
20	Project Gutenberg	173,137	32.9%	Publishing	Literature
21	Springer Nature	168,979	7.1%	Publishing	News
22	Carl Hanser Verlag	167,347	75.7%	Publishing	Literature
23	Fachhochschule Düsseldorf	158,900	99.9%	Publishing	Business & Career
24	Goldmann Verlag	158,516	83.9%	Publishing	Literature
25	Penguin Random House	147,371	3.9%	Publishing	Literature
26	Pottermore	140,916	7.4%	Publishing	Literature
27	Reclam	135,965	74.3%	Publishing	Literature
28	Suhrkamp Verlag	124,974	80.0%	Publishing	Literature
29	Mildenberger Verlag	113,926	90.7%	Publishing	Literature
30	C.H. Beck	109,422	98.2%	Publishing	Literature
31	Diogenes Verlag	103,878	65.4%	Publishing	Literature
32	Droemer Knaur	102,057	94.0%	Publishing	Literature
33	Zenit News Agency	101,510	93.0%	Publishing	Politics & Society
34	Hachette (publisher)	99,600	5.5%	Publishing	Literature
35	Confederation of German Trade Unions	95,007	99.9%	Publishing	Business & Career
36	Kiepenheuer & Witsch	87,508	86.8%	Publishing	Literature
37	Friedrich Verlag	85,982	90.5%	Publishing	Literature
38	International Civil Aviation Organization	83,412	5.0%	Publishing	Travel & Leisure
39	Shueisha	81,074	8.3%	Publishing	Literature
40	Federal Agency for Civic Education	80,528	98.8%	Publishing	Politics & Society
41	Polityka	68,316	4.0%	Publishing	News
42	Official Charts Company	61,637	67.0%	Publishing	Music & Radio
43	Association for Computing Machinery	60,245	4.5%	Publishing	Literature
44	Dark Horse Comics	58,577	4.5%	Publishing	Literature
45	Hay House	54,635	11.1%	Publishing	Literature
46	Transworld Publishers	53,104	1.7%	Publishing	Literature
47	Harper (publisher)	49,924	3.6%	Publishing	Literature
48	The Heritage Foundation	48,791	1.6%	Publishing	Politics & Society
49	BMJ	47,391	10.0%	Publishing	Business & Career
50	Betty Bossi	45,828	4.8%	Publishing	Food & Beverages