Jan Sebastian Blender has been responsible for content and quality management at PMG press monitor since September 1, 2025. The focus of his activity is clearly outlined: it should win new media and formats for the recently optimized media database PMG MediaHub – to provide you with communication professionals and experts from information management in companies and authorities centrally and legally.
“Jan is a big win for our team! With him we have an expert from the modern platform business and excellently networked connoisseurs of the media scene on board,” explains Ingo Kästner, Managing Director of the PMG. “He knows what challenges publisher is looking for today. Therefore, I am convinced that he will give important impulses to further consolidate and intelligently expand the successful cooperation with our content partners.”
“I have followed the PMG’s path in recent years and I am now all the more pleased to be able to write down the” Success Story PMG “in a responsible position,” adds Blender.
Before moving to the PMG, Blender had been working at the magazine flat rate provider Readly, the European market leader for digital magazines, in Berlin for over nine years. After his entry as a key account manager in 2016, he took over the position of the Head of Content in 2021 and in 2022 that of Managing Director de. He shared the management of the German branch with Marie-Sophie from Bibra. In June 2025, he left this position at his own request
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The PMG press monitor is one of the leading providers for digital media observationPressing mirror creation and media evaluation in German-speaking countries.
With a comprehensive relaunch in spring 2025, the PMG starts the newly developed PMG MediaHub. Over 900 publishers and content producers from all over the world provide their content here every day for a legally secure second recycling. Of around 5,000 print and online media, more than 3,000 are digitally over the integrated PMG MediaMonitor-Portal available. The PMG markets content and rights to PR professionals and communication departments in companies and authorities as well as to professional media observers.
In 2021 the PMG acquires the internationally successful Specialists for data conversion X-Cago From the Netherlands. The PMG now offers publishers tailor-made solutions for digital multiple utilization of its content. The range of services ranges from the high-quality preparation of digital data for all distribution channels to targeted marketing in the most extensive daily press database in the roof room.
Based on a framework contract with the federal states, the PMG has been making the Press portal for schools (PFS) ready. Teachers can use it to access the content of German press coverage in order to design their lessons.
Founded in 2001, the PMG A joint company of German newspaper and magazine publishers with the shareholders Axel Springer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Gruner + Jahr, Handelsblatt Media Group, Hubert Burda Media, Spiegel-Verlag, Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Federal Association of Digital Publisher and Newspaper Rem alle as well as the Media Association of the Free Press.