DEAG reports strong performance in the first half of 2025 – Full-year targets confirmed

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DEAG reports strong performance in the first half of 2025 – Full-year targets confirmed

• Revenue up 17.1% to EUR 155.4 million – EBITDA more than doubled to EUR 6.6 million
• Continued strong demand: Over 6.9 million tickets already sold across the Group and a very well-filled event pipeline
• Sustained positive outlook for the second half of the year and full-year 2025 with a significant increase in earnings

Berlin, 29 August 2025 – DEAG Deutsche Entertainment Aktiengesellschaft (‘DEAG’) seamlessly continued its strong performance from the first three months into the second quarter of 2025 and reports a very successful first half of 2025 overall. The company further expanded its share of its own event formats, successfully staged a broad variety of concerts, tours and live events, and recorded high ticket sales with further growth. As of the reporting date, more than 6.9 million tickets had already been sold for 2025 – an increase of 19% compared to the previous year. The majority of these tickets were sold via the Group’s own ticketing platforms.

With this positive business development in the first half of 2025, DEAG follows its strategy and is on target to reach its full-year objectives, particularly a moderate increase in revenue alongside a significant improvement in EBITDA. For the full-year, DEAG aims to sell a total of 12 million tickets – up from over 11 million tickets in 2024.

In the first half of 2025, revenue rose to EUR 155.4 million – an increase of 17.1% compared to the prior-year figure of EUR 132.7 million. EBITDA saw a significant increase, more than doubling from EUR 3.1 million to EUR 6.6 million. In the second quarter of 2025, DEAG recorded a significant revenue increase to EUR 88.4 million (previous year: EUR 81.0 million), while EBITDA rose sharply from EUR 0.1 million to EUR 3.1 million. The companies acquired since 2024 also contributed to the positive development in revenue and EBITDA – further evidence of DEAG’s successful Buy & Build strategy.

The reporting period was shaped, among other things, by very strong developments in the Spoken Word & Literary Events segment, with formats such as the international literature festival lit.COLOGNE, including lit.kid.COLOGNE, and the exceptionally successful event series in the UK ‘An Evening with...’. The United Kingdom, DEAG’s most important international market, continued to perform strongly overall.

Throughout the year to date, DEAG has once again organised numerous successful tours, concerts and live events. Among the particularly successful tours and concerts were Ed Sheeran, Sam Fender, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Till Lindemann, Lenny Kravitz and Bausa. 

DEAG also experienced a well-attended summer festival season with its approximately 30 one-day and multi-day festivals and open-air events across genres such as EDM and Urban Dance Music, Rock/Pop, and Classics & Jazz. Highlights included festivals like NATURE ONE, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year with acts such as Charlotte de Witte, Eric Prydz, KlangKuenstler, and Alle Farben, as well as Airbeat One, SPUTNIK SPRING BREAK, Sion sous le Étoiles, Belladrum Tartan Heart and open-air events including Andreas Gabalier at Munich’s Königsplatz or the new event format Classic Open Air at Gendarmenmarkt.

The second half of 2025 will also feature a high density of events. Among other attractions, DEAG will be staging concerts and tours with Simply Red, Lang Lang, Sabaton, Saxon, Helloween, Hans Zimmer, Marilyn Manson and Böhse Onkelz - the latter alone attracting over 200,000 visitors. Audiences can also look forward to inspiring evenings with the event format ‘An Evening with...,’ featuring the award-winning British author Elizabeth Day, former U.S. President Barack Obama, legendary Hercule Poirot actor Sir David Suchet, and Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey, among others. In addition, audiences in Germany and across Europe can once again look forward to the return of the popular ‘Christmas Garden’ event format.

“We are very pleased with our performance in the first half of 2025. DEAG is strongly positioned in the areas of Live Entertainment and Entertainment Services. The strategic decisions we made last year – particularly in the context of key transformation projects – are now reflected in rising revenues and earnings. Strong financial results, ticket sales at a very high level, and a packed event calendar provide a solid foundation for sustainable growth in the second half of 2025 and beyond,” said Detlef Kornett, Group CEO of DEAG.

The full Half-yearly Financial Report for 2025 is available for download on the DEAG website www.deag.de in the “ Investor Relations” section.

About DEAG

DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG ("DEAG"), founded in Berlin in 1978, is a leading provider of Live Entertainment, Ticketing, and Entertainment Services in Europe.

With group companies at 24 locations, DEAG is present in its core markets of Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and Italy. As a Live Entertainment service provider with an integrated business model and a strong international partner network, DEAG has extensive expertise in the conception, organisation, promotion, and production of live events of all genres and sizes.

The Live Entertainment segment includes the core business areas of Music – covering Rock/Pop, including Urban and Electronic Dance Music, Classics & Jazz – and Non-Music, such as Spoken Word & Literary Events and Family Entertainment. Every year, DEAG organises over 6,000 live events and sells more than 10 million tickets, a steadily growing share of which are sold via the DEAG Group's ticketing platforms: myticket.de, myticket.at, myticket.co.uk, gigantic.com and tickets.ie.

Live Entertainment for all generations and target groups, the development of international markets, and the strengthening of the ticketing area are central building blocks of DEAG’s ongoing development.

Investor & Public Relations
Axel Mühlhaus, edicto GmbH
Eschersheimer Landstraße 42
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: 0049 69 905505-52
Email: deag@edicto.de