Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in London. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
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101 of 4,216 tracked companies have open roles.
505 of 4,216 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 661 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 39.8% of disclosed capital, while 88.0% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $211M | 190 | 52 |
| 2017 | $835.82M | 217 | 69 |
| 2018 | $848.99M | 211 | 61 |
| 2019 | $506.59M | 233 | 57 |
| 2020 | $503.48M | 315 | 70 |
| 2021 | $419.58M | 258 | 75 |
| 2022 | $413.81M | 196 | 64 |
| 2023 | $213.59M | 187 | 47 |
| 2024 | $234.09M | 141 | 36 |
| 2025 | $1.36B | 38 | 18 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
846 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in media & entertainment company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Alea Capital Partners and Slow Ventures and others.
Backed by Rally Ventures and Sure Valley Ventures.
Backed by .
Backed by Surjsports.
Backed by Dentsu.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and Blisce and others.
Backed by ISM Capital and Chrystal Capital.
Backed by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners and others.
Backed by PPF Group.
Backed by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners and others.
Backed by Structural Capital and Exor and others.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · annual statements grouped by reported fiscal year; exact entity periods remain on preview rows · 19 reporting entities from 895 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not London market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
14 of 19 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 19 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novlr ↗08792170 | £0.2m | £0.0m | +2.2% | — | — |
| Flashes & Flames ↗12865884 | £0.2m | £0.1m | +42.6% | — | — |
| Number 9 Films ↗04363136 | £0.1m | £0.0m | +14.9% | — | — |
| V-Nova ↗11125008 | £0.1m | £-2.3m | -1817.9% | — | — |
| FilmLight ↗13806156 | £0.1m | £0.0m | +30.1% | — | — |
| Styloola ↗06200339 | £0.0m | £0.0m | +33.4% | — | — |
| Love Da Beat Radio ↗10855832 | £0.0m | £-0.0m | -108.6% | — | — |
| Escape the City ↗11493299 | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar |
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Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.
| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
|---|
Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the London companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
207 of the 4,217 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (4.9%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 448,595 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onlyfansonlyfans.com | 390,463,293 | 89 | 81.6% |
| BBCbbc.com | 372,846,193 | 100 | 74.3% |
| Goalgoal.com | 105,235,671 | 96 | 93.3% |
| Sky Sportsskysports.com | 48,561,212 | 98 | 69.8% |
| Dazn Appdazn.com | 42,050,639 | 91 | 56.5% |
| The Independentindependent.co.uk | 38,943,540 | 89 | 78.5% |
| Last.fmlast.fm | 37,392,856 | 81 | 57.2% |
| Daily Maildailymail.co.uk | 36,646,842 | 78 | 83.7% |
| Streamtapestreamtape.com | 32,058,082 | 30 | 75.7% |
| Shazamshazam.com | 22,785,980 | 84 | 58.9% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
350 of these companies (8.3%) publish at least one Android app — 1,046 apps in all, carrying 1.5B installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shazam: Find Music & ConcertsShazam | 831.6M | 4.8 | Music & Audio |
| PJ Masks™: Moonlight HeroesPJ Masks | 121.4M | 3.8 | Casual |
| DAZN - Watch Live SportsDazn App | 89.1M | 4.5 | Sports |
| BBC: World News & StoriesBBC | 35.6M | 3.3 | News & Magazines |
| PhotoFuniaPhotoFunia | 33.3M | 4.7 | Photography |
| Rap Fame - Rap Music StudioRap Tech Studios | 28.3M | 4.7 | Music & Audio |
| Revive: AI Photo AnimatorRevive | 15.2M | 4.5 | Entertainment |
| GOAL Live ScoresGoal | 14.7M | 4.2 | Sports |
| WOLF QanawatWOLF | 11.8M | 3.2 | Entertainment |
| Sky Sports ScoresSky Sports | 11.7M | 4.4 | Sports |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q4–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music Tech | 62 | 890.3M | Shazam: Find Music & Concerts 831.6M | |
| Ott Video | 49 | 138.1M | DAZN - Watch Live Sports 89.1M | |
| Film & Tv Studios | 6 | 125.8M | PJ Masks™: Moonlight Heroes 121.4M | |
| Sports Tech | 35 | 114M | GOAL Live Scores 14.7M | |
| Tv Networks | 14 | 83.5M | BBC: World News & Stories 35.6M | |
| Online Photos | 21 | 67.2M | PhotoFunia 33.3M | |
| Gambling Tech | 37 | 48.3M | 88 Fortunes™ Casino Slot Games 9.7M | |
| Mobile Gaming | 12 | 43.9M | MONOPOLY Slots - Casino Games 9.3M |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 993 of 1,046 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
42 companies hiring · $4.6B disclosed funding
Explore in RadarCommon revenue models; a company can use more than one.
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Visum Technologies has acquired IT services firm Crowdtech
DAZN has agreed to acquire ViewLift, in a move designed to accelerate its expansion in the US market and strengthen its proposition for sports rights holders.
Midnite, a London-based sportsbook and casino operator that raised €30 million in January 2026 to scale operations, accelerate product development and support international expansion
These collapsed before DMGT struck a roughly £500 million agreement with RedBird IMI.
Blue Cloud Softech Solutions today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the acquisition of 100% of Global Impx Inc. (GIX), a U.S.-based energy and digital infrastructure platform, through an all-share transaction.
Redbird IMI, which acquired UK-based All3Media for £1.15 billion ($1.51 billion) in 2024, has merged the production powerhouse with Banijay Entertainment, which has its headquarters in Paris.
Serafin sees the value in having them as assets.
ATC Music Group acquired the remaining majority stake in Cirkay to strengthen its digital fan engagement and music marketing capabilities.
Laminar, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of an open-source observability platform for AI agents, raised $3m in seed funding.
ITV said it is continuing discussions with Sky over a potential £1.6 billion acquisition of Sky’s broadcasting division, even as the British media group reported a decline in annual profits.
Top 10 categories among 868 recorded events in the 24-month window.
2 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO1 reports
Follow-on Offering · NYSE2 reports
121 tracked people moves
Appointment chief strategy officer
Appointment Chief Strategy Officer
Appointment Previously group chief financial officer and executive director of PA Media Group
Appointment President
Appointment Co-CEO
Appointment Chief Content Officer
Appointment Co-Chief Executive Officer
Resignation Previously Managing Director of Television
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Product
AI chatbot
Account-based advertising service
Feature Series
Dev Tool Platform
Audio Advertising Creation and Optimisation Platform
26 recorded customer wins
Customer: petronasOil and Gas
Customer: Evergreen Garden CareCRM
Customer: skyMedia & Entertainment
Customer: Danske Licens SpiliGaming
Customer: bet365
Customer: Samsung Gulf ElectronicsCRM
9 companies with reported reductions
2,000 rolescost reduction
550 rolescost control
3.0% rolesrestructuring for greater efficiency
12 rolesbusiness restructuring
321 rolescost reduction
220 rolescost reduction
18 recorded events
approved registrationThe Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration
organizational license grantedSuperintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS)
under regulatory scrutiny
8 tracked suits
defamationCivil · Ongoing
defamation lawsuitCivil · Ongoing
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 175 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Investor group represented by TTB Partners→Playtech ↗ | Rumored | 2026-06-17 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Visum Technologies→crowdtech | Announced | 2026-05-01 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Dazn App→viewlift | Announced | 2026-05-01 | Not stated in snapshot |
| axel springer→The Telegraph ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-14 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT)→The Telegraph ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-14 | Not stated in snapshot |
| RedBird IMI→The Telegraph ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-14 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
Recorded hiring and workforce signals from the available source snapshot.
No repeated job title is supported by this snapshot.
0 tracked postings mention remote work.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Fan Expo HQ ↗ | 10,044 |
| ITV ↗ | 6,825 |
| DAZN ↗ | 2,737 |
| Global ↗ | 1,393 |
| Lumanity ↗ | 1,300 |
| SciPlay ↗ | 632 |
| ITV Studios ↗ | 454 |
| Footballco ↗ | 400 |
1,500 founders and chief executives across 1,174 companies.
Ex-Entain, Coral, Playtech, Videobet. Tel Aviv University BASc 2001, Kellogg School of Management MBA 2005
Ex Oracle.
Ex-Deadly People, Modular Records
Hiro Capital, ex-Amadeus Capital Partners, ex-Two Way, Yale School of Management, 1986
Stability Ai, ex-Weta Digital, ex-Sfx Entertainment, Columbia Business School, 2004
Ex - Talkradio, Virgin Radio
Players' Lounge, Motif, Invisible Technologies, Thriva Health, CHUNKER, Openland, Tint.ai, Edmit, Mustard.
Guard, ex-Shazam, ex-Dropbox, uc berkeley
Pimoroni, ex-Intercede, Marmalade, 7digital, BT. King's College London B.Sc 1997
Ex-fastfilmz, McKinsey · MIT Sloan School of Management MBA 2003
Ex-Homa Games, GameAnalytics. Hult International Business School MBA 2016, UCL MSc 2022
Owner The Sinclair Collective, CEO MelonSeed Media.
191 profiles with education records.
31 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
168,050 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Media & Entertainment coverage tagged London · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 25,604 |
| 2021Q3 | 34,644 |
| 2021Q4 | 25,303 |
| 2022Q1 | 29,908 |
| 2022Q2 | 33,025 |
| 2022Q3 | 36,707 |
| 2022Q4 | 32,239 |
| 2023Q1 | 35,932 |
| 2023Q2 | 38,760 |
| 2023Q3 | 35,434 |
| 2023Q4 | 35,049 |
| 2024Q1 | 41,517 |
| 2024Q2 | 41,536 |
| 2024Q3 | 43,033 |
| 2024Q4 | 41,801 |
| 2025Q1 | 48,836 |
| 2025Q2 | 39,643 |
| 2025Q3 | 49,168 |
| 2025Q4 | 40,373 |
| 2026Q1 | 40,031 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
1,065 recorded company events across 109 companies; percentages use that event total.
Media & Entertainment coverage tagged London · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
United Kingdom comparison coverage
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| tariff negotiations | 4,340 | 2,625 | 65% |
| countries | 4,192 | 1,862 | 125% |
| free trade deals | 2,315 | 1,156 | 100% |
| conceptual rock albums | 2,133 | 195 | 994% |
| theatrical rock personas | 2,059 | 44 | 4580% |
| rock concerts | 2,022 | 1,269 | 59% |
| trade dispute mechanisms | 1,988 | 852 | 133% |
| avant-garde composition | 1,939 | 566 | 243% |
| bilateral trade | 1,874 | 763 | 146% |
| alternative rock concerts | 1,837 | 1,166 | 58% |
| europa league | 799 | 2,018 | -60% |
| economic slowdown | 760 | 1,187 | -36% |
| champions league | 698 | 1,141 | -39% |
| olympic team selections | 291 | 891 | -67% |
| free casino games | 66 | 849 | -92% |
United Kingdom comparison coverage
territories, disputed islands, countries
24.6% critical · 21.3% positiveclub valuation, inflation reports fx, currency intervention policies
31.1% critical · 42.3% positiveleague expansion news, pro league fixtures, gdp growth forex
30.0% critical · 47.0% positiveMedia & Entertainment coverage tagged London. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
Compare demand signals in London’s newsflow with the media & entertainment categories mapped to each signal.
Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.
The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.
Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.
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| Signal family | Signal percentile | Supply percentile | Relative gap | Gap (points) | Signal share vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming & OTT ↗Adoption Shift | 100.0 | 0.0 | +100.0 | +49.2% | |
| Layoffs & income shocks ↗Spending Pressure | 54.2 | 33.3 | +20.9 | +10.1% | |
| Box office & theatrical ↗Demand Driver | 45.8 | 66.7 | -20.9 | +13.6% | |
| Creator economy ↗Demand Driver | 25.0 | 100.0 | -75.0 | -6.1% | |
| Data & privacy regulation ↗Compliance Pressure | 25.0 | — | No matching category | — | — |
Showing all 5 signals. Select a family for its history and mapped categories.
All 12 city readings for these demand families in the comparison geography. London is highlighted.
Each city’s reading is a share of its own coverage. Rows cover all of the United Kingdom for this page's signal families; London is marked.
Streaming & OTT · Creator economy · Box office & theatrical
Streaming & OTT · Box office & theatrical · Creator economy
Streaming & OTT · Creator economy · Layoffs & income shocks
Box office & theatrical · Streaming & OTT · Layoffs & income shocks
Streaming & OTT · Layoffs & income shocks · Creator economy
Streaming & OTT · Box office & theatrical · Layoffs & income shocks
Streaming & OTT · Box office & theatrical · Layoffs & income shocks
Streaming & OTT · Box office & theatrical · Creator economy
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Creator economy
Creator economy · Streaming & OTT · Box office & theatrical
Streaming & OTT · Creator economy · Layoffs & income shocks
Layoffs & income shocks · Streaming & OTT · Data & privacy regulation
Streaming adoption can pull content, platform and monetisation demand with it.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 72 | 28.04 |
| 2024Q4 | 70 | 29.84 |
| 2025Q1 | 85 | 32.05 |
| 2025Q2 | 78 | 32.4 |
| 2025Q3 | 115 | 37.8 |
| 2025Q4 | 101 | 41.88 |
| 2026Q1 | 121 | 38.88 |
Layoff cycles can pull discretionary spend back toward value offerings.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 54 | 21.03 |
| 2024Q4 | 61 | 26.01 |
| 2025Q1 | 84 | 31.68 |
| 2025Q2 | 50 | 20.77 |
| 2025Q3 | 84 | 27.61 |
| 2025Q4 | 43 | 17.83 |
| 2026Q1 | 109 | 35.03 |
Theatrical swings can move where content money goes next.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 21 | 8.18 |
| 2024Q4 | 20 | 8.53 |
| 2025Q1 | 31 | 11.69 |
| 2025Q2 | 23 | 9.55 |
| 2025Q3 | 48 | 15.78 |
| 2025Q4 | 12 | 4.98 |
| 2026Q1 | 25 | 8.03 |
Creator activity can pull tooling, monetisation and brand-deal demand around it.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 30 | 11.68 |
| 2024Q4 | 28 | 11.94 |
| 2025Q1 | 30 | 11.31 |
| 2025Q2 | 51 | 21.19 |
| 2025Q3 | 44 | 14.46 |
| 2025Q4 | 28 | 11.61 |
| 2026Q1 | 25 | 8.03 |
Privacy rules can land as engineering requirements — consent, data handling and audit tooling follow.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s media & entertainment market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 13 | 5.06 |
| 2024Q4 | 5 | 2.13 |
| 2025Q1 | 9 | 3.39 |
| 2025Q2 | 12 | 4.99 |
| 2025Q3 | 34 | 11.18 |
| 2025Q4 | 9 | 3.73 |
| 2026Q1 | 10 | 3.21 |
London media & entertainment coverage
Complutense Journal of English Studies
53 citations in the snapshot
International Journal of Cultural Policy
12 citations in the snapshot
8 citations in the snapshot
BMC Pediatrics
6 citations in the snapshot
the United Kingdom coverage of this page's demand families
| Keyword | Recent articles | Prior articles | Share change |
|---|---|---|---|
| hbo max | 65 | 31 | 166.0% |
| film debuts | 72 | 53 | 72.4% |
| apple tv+ | 69 | 56 | 56.3% |
| newcomer actors | 70 | 63 | 41.0% |
| netflix | 146 | 145 | 27.8% |
| ai research | 41 | 45 | 15.6% |
Share changes describe coverage in the stated comparison periods, not search demand or market size.
Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 6 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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