About us

My path into the podcast industry was not straightforward. After training as a butcher and spending years in management, in 2015 I teamed up with my best friend and now business partner Erik Freutel to set up a blog that at times reached over 400,000 page views per month.

We developed our own reach, content strategy, and digital distribution. The first companies approached us to use this reach for their communications. This is also where we gained our first podcast experience.

In 2017, I took the plunge and started over as an intern at an advertising agency in Berlin. My goal was to gain a fundamental understanding of how large companies and corporations communicate, what internal requirements exist, and what expectations decision-makers have of external partners.

NextGen Media GmbH was founded in 2018. At the same time, I worked for another year at a PR agency to gain first-hand knowledge of precisely these structures, processes, and communication logic in a corporate environment.

In 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, I launched my own interview format, the Hauptstadt Podcast, in which I spoke with politicians, top athletes, actors, and CEOs of large companies.

With this format, I realized how effective a podcast can be as a networking platform when it is strategically designed. Conversations open doors, build trust, and lead to genuine business relationships.

Shortly after publication, Gegenbauer approached us. An existing internal employer branding format needed to be restructured and made more professional. Thanks to my experience in moderation and our Berlin studio with its professional video setup, we were able to redesign the format and implement employee interviews as a structured video podcast.

That was the starting point for NextGen Podcast.