Friend MTS, a privately owned UK-based company founded in 2000, offers content security services. Employing approximately 120 people, the company's revenue in 2023 was less than $25 million. Their services primarily target content owners, broadcasters, and operators, and include forensic watermarking, content monitoring enhanced by fingerprinting, and support for legal action against piracy.
Friend MTS discussed choosing a video watermarking solution and vendor. A sponsored editorial featured an interview about the fight against piracy, highlighting recent global crackdowns and arrests in the UK. Friend MTS enabled a customer to block access to pirated content in the UK and Republic of Ireland via Dynamic Delivery Server Blocking, resulting in 99% inaccessibility. Another customer, a content owner with globally licensed content, sought to identify and stop piracy across multiple platforms and countries. Friend MTS helped this customer significantly reduce content piracy through monitoring, enforcement, account management, data analysis, and investigations into pirate IPTV.
Friend MTS offers 4 products in the media tech industry. Friend MTS's product portfolio comprises of content security.
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Friend MTS's revenues were less than $25M in 2023. Caretta Research has split Friend MTS's revenue into 2 different product categories, the largest of which is anti-piracy, monitoring and takedown. For full access to Friend MTS's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Friend MTS's customers primarily consist of spectator Sports, broadcast television and radio and pay TV services companies. Examples of Friend MTS's customers include ITV, UEFA and United Group. Friend MTS has commercial and technical partners like BuyDRM and Amazon Web Services (AWS).