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 announced a strategic growth plan at IBC 2025 to improve anti-piracy efforts. This plan includes new investigation services and collaboration with law enforcement. On an unspecified date, Friend MTS partnered with Voyo, a Romanian streaming service, to protect its content using watermarking and global monitoring technology. This partnership followed Voyo's acquisition of Romanian broadcast rights for the English Premier League. Separately, Friend MTS also partnered with VOYO ProTV, another Romanian streaming platform, to combat piracy and protect its content investments in live sports, local content, and VOD.
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 broadcast television and radio, media and TV services and bat sports companies. Examples of Friend MTS's customers include United Group, Major League Baseball (MLB) and ITV. Friend MTS has commercial and technical partners like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and BuyDRM.
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