Broadcast & Pay TV

In linear programming, service theft is a constant threat to the prime-time spotlight.

Each illegal stream diverts viewers and diminishes the value of content and advertising. In a world where every second counts, can you afford to let pirates hijack your audiences?

When pirates target your linear broadcast content, particularly Pay-Per-View (PPV), premium sports and entertainment channels, it directly impacts your advertising revenue, subscriber churn, Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), and the ability to acquire future rights and damages your brand and reputation. To effectively neutralise broadcast piracy, you need a content security solution with a specific set of capabilities that must operate in real-time, securely and at scale, 24 hours a day.

Without protection of your linear channels, you are exposed to:

• Falling viewing figures
• Sharp reductions in advertising revenue
• Reduction in ARPU
• Premium package churn
• Brand damage from out-of-context content
• Viewer confusion from unscheduled, manipulated broadcasts

Experts in broadcast anti-piracy

Operating content security around the clock requires automation, scalability and considerable expertise. FMTS broadcast solutions protect linear channels for some of the world's biggest and best-known broadcasters, twenty-four hours per day, 365 days of the year.

They trust FMTS to keep their primetime programming and tentpole events safe from piracy, using the full suite of content security solutions, including Global and Regional Monitoring and Subscriber and Distribution Watermarking.

FMTS linear monitoring services are flexible; we cater for everything from a single broadcast up to large bouquets of channels. Our services are advertising-aware, with support for SCTE-35 markers that indicate advertising breaks. This enables the suspension of video fingerprinting that otherwise creates false positive reports.

Continuous protection, 24x7x365 

• Linear channel ingest and fingerprinting
• Support for large channel boquets in SD, HD and UHD
• Support for SCTE-35 markers
• Always-on monitoring 24x7x365
• Receiver fingerprint capture and reporting
• Comprehensive Access Toolkit - resources to automatically navigate piracy targets and mitigate anti-piracy countermeasures

Blocking - it's not just for live

Until recently, Dynamic Server Blocking orders have focused on live events. However, there are often multiple key periods throughout a day or week when the highest levels of protection are critical for broadcasters and platform operators. Disrupting piracy consumption according to a schedule of key events on a linear channel (or bouquet of channels), whether live events or premium entertainment content, deprives audiences of access to this illicit content, and directs them to legal alternatives.