Kontor TV

You search for a song you recently heard on the radio on YouTube and quickly find it. Often you can find the hottest hits on the YouTube channel “KontorTV”. But what is Kontor or KontorTV at all ?

Generally speaking, Kontor represents a music label which bears the name “Kontor Records”. Thereby it contains mainly artists, which come from the house or dance music. Well-known names of the artists are Die Atzen, DJ Antoine or Gestört aber Geil who regularly work together with the music label. The company Kontor Records was founded in 1996 and has its headquarters in the Hanseatic city of Hamurg.

The channel “KontorTV”, which is very well known on YouTube, represents the YouTube channel of the company, where productions of Kontor Records and their partners are published regularly. With its 4,978,400 subscribers, the Social Blade channel is the largest YouTube channel in Germany. The KontorTv channel and the Kontor Records label behind it are known worldwide for their outstanding productions in the dance music sector. Again and again, German-language as well as international works are published on the channel, which were produced by the music label.

The founder of the music label Jens Thele originally opened a discotheque in Hamburg called Kontor. Shortly thereafter, Thele founded the Kontor Records record label in 1996 with the goal at the time of providing DJs and artists from the area with a platform and a means of release and distribution. This quickly gained interest and the sales figures of the label literally shot up. Today world famous DJ’s like Lexy and K-Paul or even Armin Van Buuren belong to the tribe at Kontor Records.

Already on 14.03.2006 the YouTube channel Kontor.TV went online on which productions of the company of the same name have been published regularly since then. Just 6 years later, in November 2012, the channel was one of the first German YouTube channels to reach 1,000,000 subscribers. In the meantime, the channel has been able to increase this number almost fivefold and is thus on the verge of reaching 5,000,000 subscribers.

In 2003, a subsidiary company called “Kontor New Media” was founded. This subsidiary was also founded and managed by Jens Thele and was responsible for the distribution of digital media via the Internet. Thele will be assisted in the management of this department by Michael Pohl. Like its parent company, Kontor New Media Group is also one of the leading digital distributors in Europe. Due to this subsidiary, the entry and success in the YouTubescene was already foreseeable one year after the foundation of YouTubes. Even the first release back then went viral and gave the company a significant boost.

Then in March 2012, the company ventured in yet another direction and took a step with the times. The mere sale of CDs and records was already outdated and the company quickly realized that now music streaming services must be the main focus of artists. So they founded Kontor FM which is the playlist in the recognized music streaming service Spotify. This playlist on Spotify alone has well over 375,000 subscribers and there are already several other playlists that run under the Kontor banner.