Friend MTS is a privately owned company headquartered in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2000, the company employs approximately 140 individuals and reported $20.1M in revenue as of 2024. The company specializes in content security, providing content owners, broadcasters, and operators with security and anti-piracy services, including forensic watermarking, fingerprint-augmented content monitoring, and legal enforcement.
On September 8, 2026, Friend MTS launched the FMTS Platform, an AI-powered system providing piracy intelligence analysis and action, which was available for demonstrations at IBC 2026. Previously, on September 3, 2026, Friend MTS and AgileTV completed the first integration of AgileTV’s content delivery network (CDN) with Friend MTS’ server-side watermarking technology. This pre-integrated solution combines their respective platforms, enabling operators to add either technology with reduced integration effort and more quickly deploy premium content protection. This follows the June 27, 2026 announcement that ONE Championship, a martial arts organization, selected Friend MTS as its global social media anti-piracy partner. The agreement provides live and post-event monitoring and enforcement across social platforms and the open web to protect ONE Championship's global broadcast partnerships and direct-to-consumer streaming business.
Friend MTS offers 6 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 2024. 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, telecoms and entertainment Providers companies. Examples of Friend MTS's customers include Major League Baseball (MLB), Warner Bros. Discovery and Sky Group. Friend MTS has commercial and technical partners like Amazon Web Services (AWS), BuyDRM and AgileTV.
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