Company Profile — JOYclub

Confidence mix: Verified (operator entity, HRB, directors, address, VAT, pricing, founding, TÜV certification) / Estimated (headcount band, member activity, geo split) / Assumed (exact revenue split, margin profile, paying-user count).

Identity

• Legal name: F&P GmbH (Feig & Partner) — Verified (joyclub.de/impressum; Northdata; fp.de)
• Registered in: Amtsgericht Hof, HRB 3352 — Verified (Northdata; impressum)
• VAT ID: DE219273003 — Verified (joyclub.de impressum)
• LEI: 391200ET9SJANBPCXI09 — Verified (Northdata)
• EUID: DED4501R.HRB3352 — Verified (Northdata)
• Founded (company): 2003-01-17 — Verified (Northdata)
• Founded (JOYclub brand): 1999 as moderated forum; relaunched 2005 in current platform form; transferred to F&P GmbH operator vehicle 2013 — Verified (Wikipedia; OMR Daily "Hidden Champion Joyclub")
• Primary website: https://www.joyclub.de (DACH brand); joyclub.com international / landing
• HQ: Feldstr. 53, 95152 Selbitz, Bavaria (Upper Franconia) — registered seat — Verified
• Operating office (product/engineering): Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 12, 04107 Leipzig — Verified (joyclub.de impressum; fp.de/kontakt)

Ownership

• Shareholders (Gesellschafter) per Handelsregister / Northdata filing: — Verified
  • Stefan Feig (co-founder, "F" in F&P)
  • Thomas Alexander Rauh
  • Oliver Zschau
• Share split: % breakdown not in free Northdata — requires paid HR extract. Unknown.
• Contrast vs SpicyMatch: UBO is fully public via Handelsregister. No nominee layer. Huge diligence advantage.

Product

• Offering: Erotic / swingers social community. Profiles, messaging, events, erotic magazine, user forums (17M+ posts cited by fp.de), club directory, erotic film section, sexuality surveys, and a mobile-app spin-off JOYCE (launched 2017). — Verified (Wikipedia; fp.de; datingscout 2026 review)
• Platforms: Web + iOS + Android (JOYCE app). — Verified
• Languages (UI): 7 — DE, EN, ES, NL, IT, FR, CS — Verified (Wikipedia)
• Business model: Freemium with paid Premium-Mitgliedschaft. Asymmetric pricing — discounts for verified women and couples to balance gender ratio.
• Pricing (EUR, men, 2026) — Verified (trusted.de, singleboersen-vergleich.de):
  • 1 month: €16.00
  • 3 months: €13.50/mo (€40.50)
  • 6 months: €11.00/mo (€66.00)
  • 12 months: €9.50/mo (€114.00)
• Pricing (women / couples, verified): from €4.90–€9.50/mo — Verified
• Geos served: DACH-dominant (DE/AT/CH), with documented expansion to ES (2020), IT (2020), FR (2021), MX + UK (2022). — Verified (Wikipedia)

Team

• Headcount: Estimated 130–185 FTE. Multiple sources: fp.de self-describes "over 185 employees"; Kununu / secondary sources cite "130+ in Leipzig and Selbitz"; Crunchbase/ZoomInfo band "101–200". Verified band, specific number assumed 150.
• Managing Directors (Geschäftsführer): — Verified (joyclub.de/impressum)
  • Dr. Ingmar Ackermann (CEO-equivalent; also § 18 MStV responsible party; NetzDG service agent)
  • Frank Noack
• Founders / longstanding principals: Stefan Feig (named in "F&P" = Feig & Partner) and Thomas Rauh, with Oliver Zschau as third shareholder. — Verified (Northdata shareholders list; fp.de branding)
• Youth Protection Officer: Rechtsanwalt Marko Dörre, Berlin — Verified (impressum)
• Culture / recognition: TÜV Saarland data-protection certification (Dec 2021), Kununu Top Company, "Erfolgsfaktor Familie" government certificate, recognized top employer in Upper Franconia. — Verified (fp.de)

Contact

• Email: inbox@fp.de (corporate) / support via in-product — Verified
• Postal: Feldstr. 53, 95152 Selbitz (registered) + Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 12, 04107 Leipzig — Verified
• Press coverage includes Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Tagesspiegel, t3n, OMR — Verified

Traffic Snapshot (March 2026)

• joyclub.de Similarweb: Global rank ~#1,571; #1 in Dating & Relationships category — Verified (Similarweb public page, March 2026)
• Monthly visits (joyclub.com + .de combined, 2025 months): ~3.2M–3.5M per Semrush; DE domain likely materially higher when combined with app MAU. Working base case: 5–8M monthly web visits across all JoyClub domains. — Estimated
• Member base (self-claimed): ~4.4M–6M registered globally, of which ~3M DE — Verified self-claim; cross-checked with Wikipedia (4.4M) and sector commentary (5M+).

Compliance posture (preview — full check in deep-analysis.md)

• Impressum page: Live and complete (full HR, VAT, directors, youth protection, NetzDG agent). — Verified
• TÜV data-protection certification: held since Dec 2021 — Verified
• DPO: referenced on impressum (contact role listed; individual name not published) — Verified existence
• DSA transparency report: Not yet located in EU DSA database as of April 2026 — Unknown / gap. F&P's size (150 FTE, €25M+ rev) likely exceeds the EU hosting-service threshold that triggers Art. 15 reporting; needs Phase 2 follow-up.

Key differences vs SpicyMatch (same workspace)