med1

Name

med1

Legal name

BurdaVerlag Publishing GmbH

Website

https://med1.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Health Information Portal

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Patient Portals & Self-Service Access (HLACAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Primary Care & General Medicine Virtual Care (HLALAAAA), Care Navigation, Advocacy & Benefits Guidance Platforms (HLALADAJ)

Keywords

• Health information portal
• Online medical content
• Symptom checker tools
• Medical encyclopedia
• Health reference database

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Advertising: The portal generates revenue through advertising. The website explicitly mentions 'Ihre Werbemöglichkeiten' (Your advertising options) as a section, indicating the primary revenue model is advertising-supported free content. Users access health information, tools, and resources at no cost while the company monetizes through ad placements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

med1 (operating the netDoktor brand) is a German-language online health information portal that publishes physician- and journalist-authored content covering diseases, medications, symptoms, diagnostics, therapies, and anatomy. It offers interactive self-service tools such as the Symptom-Checker, Laborwert-Checker, Heilpflanzenfinder, and Selbsttests, alongside multimedia content including videos, image galleries, and the gesundBefund podcast, and a thrice-weekly email newsletter. The portal monetizes primarily through advertising while providing content free of charge to consumers.

Product overview

netDoktor is a German-language online health portal offering comprehensive health information organized as a content platform with multiple interactive tools and reference sections. The core offerings include the Symptom-Checker and Laborwert-Checker (interactive diagnostic tools), extensive reference databases covering diseases, medications, diagnostics, therapies, and anatomy, multimedia content through videos, image galleries, and the gesundBefund podcast, and engagement tools including Selbsttests (self-assessments) and Gesundheitsquiz (health quizzes). The platform also features the Heilpflanzenfinder for medicinal plant information. Content is distributed through multiple channels including Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, WhatsApp, and a weekly email newsletter. The portal is operated by a team of doctors, journalists, and internet specialists and maintains quality certifications through afgis.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Symptom-Checker
• Laborwert-Checker Online tool that explains laboratory values and helps users interpret what their medical test results mean. Aimed at patients who have received lab reports and want layperson-accessible explanations.
• Heilpflanzenfinder Medicinal plant finder service that helps users discover herbal remedies by mapping symptoms to potential medicinal plants. Targets consumers interested in phytotherapy and complementary medicine.
• Selbsttests (Self-Assessments) Collection of interactive self-assessment tools and quizzes, including a depression test and other health risk evaluations, enabling users to assess symptoms, risks, and well-being independently.
• Gesundheitsquiz (Health Quiz) Educational health quizzes covering topics around psyche, body, sex, and other health-related subjects, designed to test and expand user health knowledge.
• gesundBefund Podcast Health podcast providing answers to everyday health questions, hosted by Silke Stadler. Distributed on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Podcast.de, reaching German-speaking consumers via on-demand audio.
• Email Newsletter Free email newsletter delivered three times per week with the latest health news and valuable health tips, available to consumers via email subscription.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Felix Burda StiftungminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2001Partnership for colorectal cancer prevention. Since 2001, netDoktor supports the Felix Burda Foundation's awareness campaigns and provides news content for their APPzumARZT smartphone app. The partnership involves irregular reporting on foundation campaigns and content provision for the app.
• afgis e.V.minorOthersQuality certification partnership. afgis e.V. provides independent certification of netDoktor's information quality and working methods. The certification validates the portal's compliance with transparency criteria for health information websites.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Onmeda: Onmeda is a long-standing German-language health information portal covering diseases, symptoms, medications, and interactive tools. It directly overlaps netDoktor's editorial scope, target audience (German-speaking consumers), and ad-supported business model.
• Lifeline: Lifeline is a German consumer health information portal operated by Funke Mediengruppe, offering disease, symptom, medication, and wellness content for German-speaking audiences. It is the closest direct competitor to netDoktor in the DACH DTC health-information category, monetized through advertising.
• Apotheken-Umschau: Apotheken-Umschau is one of Germany's most-read health magazines with a substantial digital portal delivering medication, disease, and wellness content to consumers. It is a direct comparable in scale, audience, and advertising-based monetization.

Emerging players

• DoktorABC: DoktorABC is a German/European online telemedicine and prescription platform. While more focused on clinical service delivery than information, it intersects with netDoktor's audience of German-speaking consumers researching symptoms and treatments, and signals adjacent competitive expansion.
• Zava: Zava is a European online doctor and digital health platform serving Germany, the UK, France, and Ireland. It represents an emerging digital health competitor that increasingly blends health content with transactional care, intersecting with netDoktor's informational-to-clinical journey.

Broad incumbents

• Healthline: Healthline is a major US consumer health content site (Dotdash Meredith) covering conditions, nutrition, mental health, and wellness. It is comparable as a multi-format, ad-supported health content publisher targeting informed consumers.
• DocCheck: DocCheck operates a broader German healthcare platform combining a professional community (DocCheck Login) with consumer-facing content and services. While it spans HCP and DTC audiences, its consumer health content overlaps netDoktor's offering and competes for ad and partnership budgets.
• WebMD: WebMD is the largest English-language consumer health information portal in the US, offering symptom checkers, condition content, and multimedia. It is the global scale benchmark for netDoktor's category, illustrating the upside of multi-channel content plus interactive tools in an ad-supported model.

Regional players

• Patient.info: Patient.info is a leading UK consumer and professional health information platform offering symptom checkers, condition leaflets, and wellbeing content. It is comparable as a non-German, English-language peer operating a similar editorial-plus-tools model with advertising.
• Doctissimo: Doctissimo is a major French-language health, wellness, and family content portal. It serves a comparable audience profile (French-speaking consumers seeking self-service health information) with similar content, tools, and ad-supported monetization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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