Friend MTS, a global leader in providing content anti-piracy solutions and video cybersecurity, yesterday announced the launch of the FMTS Platform, where AI powers piracy intelligence, analysis and action all in one place.

The new platform, according to a Friend MTS media statement yesterday, 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, the company said in the statement.

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, it said. 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, the company asserted.

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.

Friend MTS CEO Shane McCarthysaid: “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.”

The launch, the statement added, 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.