Sven Rühlicke

Sven Rühlicke is CEO & Co-Founder of Wake Word GmbH - the podcast specialist for premium content and technology. Wake Word has already produced over 50 formats with studios in Munich and Berlin, including ""Mensch!"", "11 Leben" (Dt. Podcast Preis 2021 und 2022), "Playing Dirty", "Tatort Deutschland", "Siege der Medizin", "Women in War", "Über Merkel", " Dings gegen Bums", "Karim & Ben machen Auge" and many more for clients like Seven. One Audio, Spotify, Amazon, Podimo, Wort & Bild Verlag, RTL+, rbb/ARD, German Trade & Invest as well as well-known branded companies such as ALDI and McDonald's. With PODIUS, Wake Word also developed a podcast analysis and media planning platform for publishers, marketers and media agencies including AI-based download estimation. Prior to that, he was responsible for the digital strategy as Chief Digital Officer in the management of the Antenne Bayern Group and made the group of companies one of the leading digital audio entertainment houses in the DACH region with the focus areas Smart Data, Voice Recognition (esp. In-car Entertainment), Podcast (Lautgut) as well as digital investments (laut.AG). Further stations were Managing Director Digital of the national online audio marketing SpotCom as well as Erdinger Weißbräu.