Friend MTS, the number one anti-piracy provider and video cybersecurity partner in media, entertainment and sports, has today launched the FMTS Platform: AI-powered piracy intelligence, analysis and action all in one place.
The FMTS Platform gives content owners, broadcasters and OTT service providers a single access point to the tools protecting their content, alongside one connected view of the AI-driven analysis, guidance and insight needed to operate any successful anti-piracy strategy. For the first time, monitoring, watermarking, social media, blocking, intelligence, enforcement and analytics work as a unified system rather than a set of separate tools. Backed by the renowned Friend MTS service team, the Platform delivers not just data, but data with real impact.
For 25 years, Friend MTS has built the deepest, most verified piracy insights in the industry. Its court-tested data today safeguards over $120bn of media rights and protects more than 100 million apps and devices. The AI at the heart of the FMTS Platform is trained on that knowledge, and continuously searches for patterns indicative of illegal behaviour. With the capability to monitor across the open web, closed platforms, social channels and streaming services – including closed IPTV and covert social channels – the FMTS Platform surfaces actionable intelligence, backed up by a dedicated team of piracy experts behind every result.
The platform is flexible and intuitive, enabling users to query in seconds and tailor dashboards and reports to their team’s priorities.
Every case on the platform can be actioned in one click via the platform's API. Teams can see an infringement, issue a takedown, file a claim, investigate or escalate without ever leaving the platform, drawing on the 26,000 hours of content Friend MTS captures and processes every day.
Shane McCarthy, CEO of Friend MTS, said: “Piracy is increasingly AI-enabled, and that means the strategies to combat it must be too. The new FMTS Platform brings together all aspects of anti-piracy monitoring and action into one place, incorporating AI-driven data capture, analysis, insight and guidance. It puts the intelligence that wins back revenue at our customers’ fingertips so they can take action. Piracy never stops changing, and the AI at the core of the FMTS Platform is built to stay ahead of it.”
Momentum across sport and media
The launch follows a period of rapid growth for Friend MTS, which has recently been chosen to protect premium content for TrueVisions NOW in Thailand, ONE Championship across social media and the open web, and for Jasmine International’s MONOMAX service in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Friend MTS also continues to support law enforcement at the source: its intelligence recently helped Operation KRATOS 2, a seven-month Europol-coordinated investigation, dismantle nine organised crime groups, leading to 29 arrests, more than 27,000 illegal streaming URLs removed and 722,961 infringing objects identified.
Alongside the FMTS Platform, the Friend MTS team at IBC 2026 will showcase its full range of anti-piracy services, from forensic watermarking and content monitoring to social media takedowns, blocking and expert-led investigations.
Visitors can see the platform in action and meet the team at Hall 1, Balcony Suite 12-13. To book a meeting or a demo, email pr@friendmts.com or contact us.
