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.
Friend MTS launched its FMTS Platform on September 16, 2026, providing content owners, broadcasters, and over-the-top (OTT) service providers a single access point for content protection tools. The platform also offers a connected view of AI-driven analysis, guidance, and insight crucial for anti-piracy strategies, and was available for demos at IBC 2026, as announced on September 8, 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 enables operators to deploy premium content protection more quickly by combining both technologies with reduced integration effort.
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 telecoms, spectator Sports and entertainment Providers companies. Examples of Friend MTS's customers include Warner Bros. Discovery, Sky Group and Major League Baseball (MLB). Friend MTS has commercial and technical partners like AgileTV, BuyDRM and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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