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ARD Degeto is a GmbH and a subsidiary of ARD, serving as the central company for fiction within the broadcaster group. It bears editorial responsibility for films and series in the ARD, both linear and streaming. It develops, acquires and produces fiction programmes nationally and internationally, through commissioned productions, co-productions, licence purchases and services for the ARD.

Its customers are the ARD and its audiences on linear television and in the ARD Mediathek. It works in partnership with production companies and creatives. Funding comes from its shareholders: about 200 million euros per year under medium-term financial planning, plus about 220 million euros for contract and administrative work on ARD co-productions, evening and prime-time series, co-financing, material procurement and dubbing.

The company is responsible for about 100 new productions per year. It reports 1,155 titles produced by, with or in cooperation with ARD Degeto for the ARD in 2025. Since 1 January 2023 its central billing office for the joint remuneration rules (GVR) of the ARD has been based at ARD Degeto Film. It is supervised by a shareholders' assembly and a supervisory board. Current job openings include a Referent and a Trainee in commercial and central functions.

Product: Commissioned and co-produced fiction films and series, licence purchases and production-related services for the ARD and ARD Mediathek.