WE are A Company Builder & Investor FOR THE Creator Economy

About us

Together with our network of national and international influencers, investors, marketing, product and logistics experts, we develop brands for or with the creator economy.

The entire process, from idea development to financing to scaling, is initiated and supervised by us and our team. The goal: to set up and develop a separate team for the startups with management and all important positions. The Channel F team provides support in all areas until appropriate personnel has been found. From this point on, Channel F acts as an active shareholder. As a further area of business, we advise companies, management and agencies. Our focus is on strategic and creative direction in the area of influencer marketing.

Markus
Frey

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Pepe Wietholz

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Markus Frey

Founder

Worked for many years in various positions at Roccat, most recently as Global Head of Marketing.



In 2014, together with Pepe Wietholz, among others, the founding of flow:fwd, one of the leading influencer management companies in Germany. As CEO, Markus was responsible for the entire development of the agency. After selling flow:fwd to Webedia Group, a global media and tech group, he further developed flow:fwd together with Pepe Wietholz into the leading German influencer agency on YouTube, with more than 400 million monthly views on YouTube and artists with over 30 million followers on various platforms.

His operational focus is on the development and expansion of Channel F. Markus takes care of product development, analysis, strategy, financing, investor relations and acts as a sparring partner for Channel F investments and consulting mandates.

Pepe Wietholz

Founder

Before founding his own agency, Pepe worked in various positions at several well-known digital agencies since 2005, including Executive Creative Director at the Vanksen Group.

This was followed by the founding of the digital & social media agency strg in 2010. With his work, Pepe won a number of the world's most famous awards, such as Cannes Lions, New York Festival, Effie, ADC, London International Awards, Clio, Eurobest and more. In 2015, Pepe founded flow:fwd, including Markus, and was responsible for the creative department there. Here he developed some of the most groundbreaking influencer campaigns for the German-speaking region. Following the sale of flow:fwd to Webedia Group, Pepe was responsible for the creative development of the agency as Chief Creative Officer.

He devotes his full attention to the development of Channel F. Pepe takes care of brand development, campaigns, content production, media and acts as a creative sparring partner for Channel F investments and consulting mandates.

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Management

Sascha Hellinger

Sascha Hellinger, who is known under the pseudonym “unsympathisch_tv”, has been delighting millions of German-speaking viewers with videos, stories and live streams for almost a decade. His main topics are lifestyle, internet culture, gaming and events. Thanks to his unique humor, his videos regularly end up in the trending charts and reach an audience of millions within a very short period of time. He is a member of the collective “Rinos”. Together with four other influencers, they entertain a large audience on JOYN and YouTube.

Simon Unge

Simon aka. Ungespielt has been entertaining German-speaking fans from all over Europe since 2012 and literally takes you on a journey through his life. From a world trip, to a fantastic longboard tour, to emigrating to Madeira. He now entertains millions of people on YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and Twitter with entertaining videos, live streams, postings and shares his life on the Portuguese island with his viewers in vlogs.

GermanLetsPlay

Simon aka. Ungespielt has been entertaining German-speaking fans from all over Europe since 2012 and literally takes you on a journey through his life. From a world trip, to a fantastic longboard tour, to emigrating to Madeira. He now entertains millions of people on YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and Twitter with entertaining videos, live streams, postings and shares his life on the Portuguese island with his viewers in vlogs.

Investors

We work with various private and institutional investors. In principle, we appreciate working with partners who can add strategic value to the respective investment. If you think we're an added value for you, feel free to contact us.

Consulting

As consultants, we develop new business models and empower influencers, content creators, brands & companies to find the right answers to transformation and disruption pressure. We help our partners generate growth and break new ground.

Contact

Are you interested in working with us as a team or pitching your idea to us? Then get in touch!

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