Statista

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Statista
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryDatabase
FoundedHamburg, Germany
(2007; 15 years ago (2007))
Headquarters
Hamburg
Key people
 (CEO), Hubert Jakob (COO)
Number of employees
753 as of 2020[1]
ParentStröer
Websitestatista.com

Statista is a German company specializing in market and consumer data. According to the company, its platform contains more than 1,000,000 statistics on more than 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and 170 different industries, and generates a revenue of about €60 million.[2]

The web site deutsche-startups.de named Statista "Start-up of the Year" in 2008[3] and in the same year, the company was among the winners of the start-up competition "Enable to Start", sponsored by the Financial Times Germany. In 2010, the initiative "Deutschland – Land der Ideen" (Germany – Land of Ideas) selected Statista as one of the winners in the category "Landmarks in the Land of Ideas 2010".[4] and awarded the European Red Herring Prize.[5] In 2012, Statista was nominated for the German Entrepreneur Award in the category "Fast Climber", and in 2020, it was included in a list of Must-Have Databases for Academic and Public Libraries by Library Journal.[6]

In 2019, Statista was bought by advertising company Ströer Media.[7]

Profile[]

The company provides statistics and survey results, which are presented in charts and tables. Its main target groups are business customers, lecturers and researchers. The data provided by the company cover, among other things, advertisement, buying behavior or specific industries.[8]

In 2020, Statista announced plans to offer subscriptions to a database of companies, entering into competition with the much bigger company Bloomberg.[1]

Infographics[]

Since the end of 2011, Statista produces free infographics, which are published on a regular basis on news sites, on current subjects from the areas of media and technology, for downloading. The data collected by Statista can be used by anyone, just an account is needed. They have paid plans for accessing data related to certain topics, or for corporates.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Online-Portal für Statistik: Statista will Bloomberg mit Firmendatenbank Konkurrenz machen". www.handelsblatt.com (in German). 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  2. ^ "Statista - The Statistics Portal". Statista.
  3. ^ "Statista ist das Start-up des Jahres - deutsche-startups.de". 15 December 2008.
  4. ^ "Deutschland Land der Ideen 2010". Archived from the original on 2012-02-12.
  5. ^ "Red Herring Europe Winners 2010". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14.
  6. ^ "Must-Have Databases for Academic and Public Libraries 2020".
  7. ^ Editors, EuropaWire PR. "Ströer announces increase in Statista shareholding". EuropaWire.eu. Retrieved 2020-08-16. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  8. ^ "Statista | eDesiderata". Center for Research Libraries. February 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  9. ^ "Statista - the Statistics Portal".

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