Industry & sector
Who lobbies the Parliament on media & publishing?
Broadcasters, news, book and magazine publishers, film, television and music producers, streaming services, and authors' and composers' collecting societies.
Organisations classified under Media & publishing account for 1,764 declared MEP meetings across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs, and the business lobbyists among them self-report about €17M a year in EU lobbying budgets. (As of 7 November 2026.)
Most active organisations
| Organisation | Type | Meetings | MEPs met |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motion Picture Association EMEA↗ | Business group | 92 | 70 |
| EUROCINEMA, Association de producteurs de cinéma et de télévision↗ | Business group | 87 | 44 |
| Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe↗ | Business group | 76 | 55 |
| The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA↗ | Company | 66 | 55 |
| EBU-UER (European Broadcasting Union)↗ | Public authority | 65 | 45 |
| Spotify↗ | Company | 65 | 45 |
| IFPI Representing recording industry worldwide↗ | Business group | 62 | 34 |
| Netflix International B.V.↗ | Company | 57 | 43 |
| Schibsted↗ | Company | 46 | 28 |
| Deutsche Welle↗ | Public authority | 45 | 26 |
| European Film Agency Directors↗ | Public authority | 45 | 24 |
| News Media Europe↗ | Business group | 41 | 30 |
Also active here: 12 organisations whose main sector is elsewhere but which this site also places in media & publishing
- Hong Kong Watch
- Council for European Public Space
- NOS
- Industrieverband Körperpflege- und Waschmittel e.V.
- Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
- ADPA - European Independent Automotive Data Publishers Association
- European Association for Viewers Interests
- THE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC.
- Deutscher Journalisten-Verband e.V. -Gewerkschaft der Journalistinnen und Journalisten
- Logitech
- EuroGeoSurveys - The Geological Surveys of Europe
- Green REV Institute
MEPs most met by media & publishing organisations
Across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs. A member's own page counts this term only, so its sector figures can be lower.
Sector labels are this site's own: reviewers chose the sector for 78 of the 140 profiled organisations here, and the other 62 carry a keyword classification by this site over organisation names, goals and Register categories. See methodology.