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team.blue's 2025 report shows €866M ARR and 600,000 new customers, yet a total still rounded to 3.3 million, in a foreword by a CEO on his way out.

Consolidation is not one strategy. Some groups buy scale and run three brands, others buy presence and run forty-one, and the gap between them is about 150 to 1. Meanwhile six in ten tracked domains still sit outside every group we track.

Europe's hosting groups have consolidated for a decade and now want science-based climate targets to match. But growth by acquisition works against it: each deal adds emissions to the total they have pledged to cut. team.blue's report documents the bind, making it the sector's test case.

team.blue completed 11 SaaS acquisitions in 2025. Storyclash, Windsor.ai, and Saleskit are already done in the first quarter of 2026.

TL;DR - PHP runs most of the web, and WordPress alone powers over 40% of it. The PHP Foundation’s annual budget is under $1 million and team.blue just became their Gold Sponsor,

TL;DR - team.blue has acquired Windsor.ai, a Swiss-based marketing data integration and attribution platform. Even with significant customer growth over recent years, Windsor.ai remains “small”, relative to team.blue’s scale. This deal is

team.blue has publicly announced the acquisition of Macaly, an AI-driven web application builder, sharing the news first through its official LinkedIn channel. The move marks another step in the group’s steady expansion beyond traditional hosting services and into AI-assisted website and application creation.

Kolsquare, Europe's leading influencer marketing platform belonging to team.blue, is taking its innovative approach to influencer marketing further by expanding into the Nordics through the acquisition of Woomio. This move marks an important milestone for the company, only months after joining the team.blue family in October 2024.

Quentin Bordage, CEO of Kolsquare, announced that the company is joining team.blue, a major tech group in Europe. This move is seen as an important milestone for the influencer marketing industry. He added that this partnership would help accelerate Kolsquare's growth and innovation.

team.blue, a European tech leader, recently announced on their LinkedIn profile the acquisition of Metricool, a social media management tool. Metricool, founded in 2015, serves over two million users globally and helps businesses optimize their social media presence through features like content scheduling, analytics, and engagement tracking.

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz in the digital solutions industry about team.blue. From securing significant investments to expanding through strategic acquisitions, team.blue is making waves across Europe. Today, Sofina, a global investment company, announced a direct, minority investment in team.blue. This investment comes in collaboration with Hg, a leading investor in European software and services, and CPP Investments, further cementing team.blue's position as a major player in the European digital landscape.

The readers of this blog will be familiar with businesses like team.blue, group.one, Miss Group, IONOS, WebPros and others. They all have one thing in common: Private Equity (PE) ownership. When it

team.blue has announced a major investment from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), valued at approximately €4.8 billion, acquiring a 20% interest in the company. This transaction positions team.blue among the largest privately owned technology companies in Europe.

The web hosting market in Europe is currently undergoing significant changes, driven by a wave of consolidation. Two high-profile acquisitions - the purchase of WebGlobe by group.one and the acquisition of Loopia