Media & Entertainment

To enable the growth which stakeholders demand, our M&E industry team leverages deep knowledge of various sub sectors to provide holistic, smart-growth planning tools to anticipate and capitalize on value enhancing opportunities. Today, more than ever, our clients ask us to address new product and market entry and related issues including:

• New market entry planning: To answer questions of where, when and how to enter new markets
• New product strategies and launch: To define winning product strategies that drive growth in today’s attention economy we understand what attracts consumers’ attention and utilize customized consumer preference studies and product adoption experience to identify winning strategies
• Adjacencies: Using quantitative and qualitative insights to prioritize opportunities among the array of sub-markets allows us to identify where to expand and what it takes to win in adjacent industry sectors

The need for transformation drives all segments of the M&E industry, and we have developed specific solutions that tailor transformation programs to the needs of entertainment and creative industries, including:

Profit Cube™ enhanced decision-making: Our proprietary analytical framework increases insight into the factors that drive profit margins and those that diminish them. The Profit Cube framework promotes informed decision-making to foster growth in profits (not merely revenue), new customer and content acquisition strategies, customer funnel, cross and up-selling as well as many other factors that maximize higher customer lifetime value.

Operational efficiency for creative organizations: We design operating models and organizational efficiencies that reset the needs of media and entertainment companies.

• We pay attention to both commercial and creative priorities that allow both to operate in unison.
• We also focus on third-party spend and out-sourcing opportunities to optimize for today’s needs and those of tomorrow.
• FTI designs up-to-date technology systems specifically designed for creative organizations and companies with attention economy products

We routinely use our deep industry experience to advise on: Commercial Diligence (including market and competitive assessment), Operational Diligence, Financial Diligence / QoE, IT / Tech / Cyber Diligence, and Valuation.

We provide Industry infused and strategically focused investment banking whether to accelerate growth by acquiring a competitor, deliver liquidity to shareholders by selling all or a portion of the company, or raise debt or equity capital to execute growth initiatives, companies must pursue strategic or financial transactions. Our clients rely on the industry expertise and extensive transaction experience of FTI Capital Advisors (FTICA) for global mid-market M&A, raising private capital and distressed or special situations that require a transaction. We advise on a wide range of transactions and leverage our C-suite relationships and capital markets experience to ensure efficient, value-creating outcomes.

FTI has been the world’s largest restructuring advisor for than last 15 years. Combining our extensive media and entertainment industry experience and operational expertise, FTI assists companies and their financial partners in the sector with differentiated capabilities in times of stress and distress as we are able to provide category leading restructuring capabilities with industry specific insights that make restructuring decisions as optimized as possible. Our media and entertainment restructuring capabilities include:

• Representing all categories of stakeholders both in-court and out-of-court
• Special Situations Investment Banking
• Dynamic restructuring re-emergence and industry leading post-emergence business planning for success