FLH MEDIA DIGITAL

What FLH MEDIA DIGITAL does

FLH Media Digital (legal entity FLH GmbH) is a German, owner-operated (inhabergeführt) digital marketing services company founded in 1999 by Frough Hamid and Leon Hamid, both originally from the skilled trades (Handwerk). The company delivers standardized, sector-specific digital marketing packages to small and medium-sized businesses (Mittelstand) across Germany — primarily in retail (groceries, bakeries, butcheries, specialty retail), skilled trades (metalworking, landscaping, precision mechanics), and professional services (hair salons, physiotherapists, tax consultancies). Its productized offering covers website creation bundled with RegioListing (regional visibility), end-to-end social media management, video and image-film production, 3D virtual tours, online shop setup, employer branding, and an active candidate-sourcing service called FachkräfteFinder.

The delivery platform combines a proprietary customer-facing application (the FLH App, initially launched October 2022 and relaunched in 2025) with a conventional martech SaaS stack: Mittwald for hosting, Zoho One (newsletter, SalesIQ, Forms, Meet), Personio for HR, Hotjar for behavioural analytics, Perspective Software for forms, Calendly for self-serve appointment booking, and Vimeo for video hosting. FLH runs a 50+ person in-house team across web development, social media, copywriting, photography, design, and sales, supplemented by a broader ecosystem of 100+ marketing experts and service providers. The business operates from a registered headquarters in Ismaning near Munich (Carl-Zeiss-Ring 17) and a second office in Leipzig, with field sales covering southern Germany and an Inside Sales / Customer Success team covering Central Germany.

FLH's revenue model rests on fixed monthly flat-rate subscriptions (fixe monatliche Pauschalen) for the standardized packages, supplemented by one-time setup fees for website, photoshoot, video, and online-shop builds. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; customers obtain quotes via a no-obligation Erstgespräch booked through a Calendly self-serve funnel. Distribution is omnichannel: direct field sales, inside sales, online self-serve booking, and 27+ referral partnerships with industry guilds (Innungen) and trade associations (Verbände). FLH reports 3,500+ realized projects, 98% customer satisfaction, and a 2023 Statista/FOCUS Growth Champion award, and remains entirely founder-owned with no disclosed external funding.

Name

FLH MEDIA DIGITAL

Legal name

FLH GmbH

Website

https://flh-mediadigital.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

FLH Media Digital (FLH GmbH) is a German, owner-operated digital marketing services company delivering standardized, fixed monthly flat-rate packages — websites, social media, video, online shop, and recruiting — to over 3,500 small and medium-sized businesses across Germany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

akta.pro primary industry

Customer Engagement & Messaging (Email, SMS, Push, In-App) (BPAFAFAI)

Keywords

• Digital marketing services
• Website development
• Social media management
• Online shop solutions
• Recruitment marketing

Headquarters

HQ city

Ismaning

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Fixed Monthly Marketing Flat Rates: Core revenue stream: customers pay a fixed monthly flat-rate (fixe monatliche Pauschalen) for standardized digital marketing packages including homepage, social media, video, online shop, and recruiting products. The flat fee model removes hidden costs and is designed for SME affordability and predictability.
2. One-time Project Setups & Add-ons: One-off setup work for homepage creation, photoshoots, video production, online shop launch (schlüsselfertige Übergabe), and other project-based deliverables that accompany the recurring monthly subscription.
3. Online Shop Transaction Enablement: Online-Shop product offering with fixed pricing that lets SME merchants sell 24/7; pricing is not revenue-share based but fixed-fee, supported by separate AGB Onlineshop.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

FLH Media Digital delivers fixed-fee, standardized digital marketing packages (Marketing-Gemeinschaft) to German small and medium-sized businesses (Mittelstand). Core offerings include homepage creation with regional SEO (RegioListing), end-to-end social media management, corporate video and 3D virtual tour production, e-commerce online shop builds, and active recruiting marketing (FachkräfteFinder, employer branding). Customers access these through a single point of contact backed by 50+ in-house specialists and 100+ partner experts, with the proprietary FLH App consolidating service delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Homepage & RegioListing

Quantifiable outcome

• 98 % Kundenzufriedenheit (customer satisfaction) across 3,500+ customers
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers33 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and moderate.

• Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KGcoreTechnology or IntegrationFLH's external hosting provider. Stores all website, contact-form, and applicant data on Mittwald servers in Germany under an Auftragsdatenverarbeitung (AV) agreement. (Address: Königsberger Str. 4-6, 32339 Espelkamp.)
• Zoho Corporation GmbHcoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides Zoho One suite to FLH including newsletter delivery, SalesIQ web analytics, Zoho Forms CAPTCHA, and Zoho Meet video conferencing under data processing agreements.
• Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. (Facebook / Instagram)coreTechnology or IntegrationFLH runs Facebook Custom Audiences remarketing and Meta-Pixel conversion tracking, and maintains official Facebook and Instagram profiles for marketing and customer engagement.
• LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited CompanycoreTechnology or IntegrationFLH maintains an official LinkedIn company page and uses the platform for recruiting and corporate communication.
• Calendly LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationOnline appointment-booking platform integrated into FLH's Erstgespräch funnel to schedule no-obligation consultations; data processing under EU standard contractual clauses.
• Vimeo Inc.moderateTechnology or IntegrationFLH embeds Vimeo-hosted videos (corporate videos, 3D walkthroughs, customer stories, anniversary film) across its website.
• Personio SE & Co. KGmoderateTechnology or IntegrationHR management software used by FLH for employee administration and as the platform for its Whistleblowing (Hinweisgeberportal) under an AV-Vertrag.
• Hotjar Ltd.moderateTechnology or IntegrationWeb analytics service providing FLH with user-behavior insights (heatmaps, click paths, scrolls, device info) for UX optimization.
• Perspective Software GmbHmoderateTechnology or IntegrationExternal service powering FLH's contact, inquiry, and applicant forms and online application funnel.
• Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Teams)moderateTechnology or IntegrationFLH uses Microsoft Teams for internal and customer-facing online meetings, video consultations, and webinars under EU standard contractual clauses.
• Zoom Video Communications, Inc.moderateTechnology or IntegrationFLH uses Zoom as an additional tool for online meetings, video consultations, and webinars.
• WhatsApp Ireland Ltd.moderateTechnology or IntegrationMessenger service used by FLH to stay in contact with customers and prospects and to market services.
• Innungen & Verbände (industry guilds and trade associations, 27+)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFLH states on its About page it has 27+ unnamed cooperation partnerships (Unsere Kooperationspartner) with industry guilds (Innungen) and trade associations (Verbände). These partnerships are how FLH distributes its standardized marketing packages into SME memberships; members (e.g., hairdressers) report being recommended to FLH by their Innung.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Jimdo: Jimdo is a Hamburg-based DIY website builder and online-shop platform aimed at small businesses and sole proprietors. It targets the same German SMB Mittelstand segment as FLH and competes for the same 'affordable online presence' budget, although it sells self-serve software while FLH sells a full-service subscription.
• Duda: Duda is a professional website builder platform used by agencies and SMBs to launch templated, mobile-friendly sites with built-in e-commerce and booking. It overlaps with FLH's Homepage & RegioListing and Online-Shop products at the underlying technology layer, although Duda serves as a white-label platform rather than an end-to-end service.

Broad incumbents

• HubSpot: HubSpot is a global marketing, sales, and CRM platform with a growing German SMB presence. It overlaps with FLH's social media, website, and inbound marketing components and offers a software-driven alternative to FLH's service-led subscription model for more digitally mature Mittelstand customers.
• GoDaddy: GoDaddy is a global SMB digital services platform covering domains, hosting, websites, marketing, and commerce. It competes with FLH's Homepage, Online-Shop, and basic marketing products at the entry-level German SMB price band and is increasingly localized for the German market.
• Wix.com: Wix is a global self-serve website and commerce platform with strong penetration among German SMBs. It is a substitute for FLH's Homepage and Online-Shop packages and competes for the same low-end digitalization budget across the German Mittelstand.
• IONOS: IONOS (formerly 1&1 Internet) is a major German SMB hosting, website, e-commerce, and online-marketing platform owned by United Internet. It offers standardized digital-presence packages to the same Mittelstand segment as FLH and represents one of the largest competitive threats at the entry-level price point.
• Ströer: Ströer SE is a large German listed outdoor and digital advertising group with a substantial SMB digital marketing portfolio (including its t-online and Statista-adjacent SMB services). It competes with FLH in regional/local online visibility products (RegioListing equivalents) but at a much larger scale and broader portfolio.

Emerging players

• Spreadly: Spreadly is a German startup offering digital business cards, lead capture, and contact exchange tools for SMBs and small teams. It targets a narrower piece of the SME digital presence stack than FLH but overlaps in employer branding and social-media-adjacent digital tools.

Others

• Wer liefert was (WLW): Wer liefert was is the leading German B2B directory and marketplace for SMBs and suppliers. It connects to FLH's RegioListing and SEO value proposition by helping SMBs become discoverable online and is an adjacent ecosystem player in the German Mittelstand digitalization stack.
• 11880 Solutions: 11880 Solutions operates the German business directory DasÖrtliche and related digital marketing services for local businesses. It overlaps with FLH's RegioListing product in connecting SMBs to local customers and is a thematic peer in the local-online-visibility category, although distribution and business model differ.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xxing.com/pages/flhmediadigital
• Facebookfacebook.com/flhmediadigital
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/flh-media-digital
• Instagraminstagram.com/flh_mediadigital

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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