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Heise Online Turns 30 With 44 Million Monthly Visits

The milestone signals a focus on subscriptions powered by AI-supported workflows.

Overview

  • Heise online marks its 30th year and reports more than 44 million visits per month after publishing roughly half a million stories.
  • The platform now brings together titles such as c't, iX and Mac & i under one roof, with paid heise+ and the heise security PRO community adding subscriber-backed depth.
  • Reader forums launched in 1999 have surpassed 46 million posts and often alert editors to software flaws and other issues before they spread elsewhere.
  • German court cases involving heise set lasting rules by curbing blanket forum liability in 2006 and confirming in 2010 that news links are protected by press freedom.
  • The newsroom uses targeted AI for routine tasks and a synthetic voice to deliver a twice-daily news cast, and it is celebrating with interactive games and a discounted lifetime heise+ offer.