Bild is a privately owned company headquartered in Germany. Founded in 1952, Bild employs approximately 570 individuals and is recognized as a tier 1 media tech buyer. Functioning primarily in book and periodical publishing, Bild operates as a German publishing group.
On January 30, 2026, German Bild concluded a several-month-long investigation revealing an alleged illegal network. This network reportedly evades sanctions to send goods from Europe to Russia and was founded by a former employee of a Russian state postal service subsidiary in Germany. Previously, on January 29, Bild reported that several politicians from the black-red coalition are discussing an increase in the tobacco tax. Federal Drug Commissioner Hendrik Streeck (CDU) informed the newspaper that tobacco consumption in Germany leads to approximately 131,000 deaths annually, alongside over €30 billion in direct healthcare costs and nearly €70 billion in economic follow-up costs.