Friend MTS is a privately owned company headquartered in the UK, founded in 2000, with approximately 140 employees, and reported $19.5M in revenue as of 2023. It functions as a tier 2 media tech buyer. The company specializes in content security, providing content owners, broadcasters, and operators with advanced security and anti-piracy services, including forensic watermarking, fingerprint-augmented content monitoring, and legal enforcement.
On January 26, 2026, Friend MTS partnered with JAS TV to protect English Premier League (EPL) matches in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, utilizing Friend MTS’s anti-piracy solutions, including forensic watermarking and global monitoring services. JAS TV, which operates the MONOMAX streaming service, holds the EPL rights for these regions through 2031. This collaboration follows earlier announcements of the partnership on January 15, 2026, and January 14, 2026, which detailed the safeguarding of premium live sports across these territories with Friend MTS’s advanced anti-piracy technologies.
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 entertainment Providers and telecoms companies. Examples of Friend MTS's customers include Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global and Sky Group. Friend MTS has commercial and technical partners like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and BuyDRM.
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