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On 8 January 2026, AGF Videoforschung, a company that conducts impartial research in the German TV and video sector, focusing particularly on audience measurement, published its annual TV and video review for 2025. The review concludes that consumption of audiovisual content is characterised by an increasingly diverse media landscape and changing usage situations. While video content is increasingly spread across different distribution channels and providers, linear television remains a core component of the media market, especially for current, socially relevant and live content. AGF...

In a judgment dated 16 December 2020, Munich Regional Court (Landgericht - LG) I ruled (case No. 33 O 3266/24) that changes made by the streaming service provider Amazon Prime with regard to the broadcasting of advertising on the Prime Video service, which came into force in February 2024, are inadmissible. In January 2024, Amazon sent an email to subscribers of a paid Prime membership, which also includes the Prime Video streaming service and enables its ad-free use, announcing that the streaming service would no longer be completely ad-free in future. At the same time, Amazon offered continued...

In its judgment of 16 December 2020, the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof - BGH) ruled (Case No. VI ZR 142/24) that identifying reporting in the press about a criminal conviction dating back several years may be permissible even after the probation period has expired and the conviction has been erased from the criminal record. The admissibility of such reporting requires a current reason for the reporting and a corresponding public interest in the information; this must outweigh the interest in resocialisation of the person concerned. The decision was based on the following facts:...

In a decision dated 10 December 2025, the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz - KJM) ordered the blocking of the illegal website samidoun.net. Previously, on 2 November 2023, the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, had banned the activities of the international organisation "Samidoun – Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network" in Germany. The reason given for this was that the organisation's activities violated German criminal law and were contrary to the idea of international understanding within the meaning...

In its judgment of 25 November 2020, the Administrative Court of Cologne (Case No. 6 K 2650/22) confirmed that streams that are broadcast live on the Twitch platform are to be classified as broadcasting and must comply with the relevant regulations for broadcasters on the protection of minors in the media. In 2021, the plaintiff had broadcast the first eight minutes of the film Mortal Kombat on his live stream on the Twitch platform. This sequence contained fight scenes and depictions of violence that are not suitable for children and young people under the age of 16. The clip was shown before...