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The only independent analysis revealing how Professional Investors are allocating capital to the Media & Entertainment industry in 2025, and beyond.

Transform data into strategy, and strategy into profit.

The 2026 Media Investor Survey is underway now.

From the 2025 Report, page 3:

Our 2025 Survey collected data from 98 Professional Investors controlling over US$111.8 Billion in Assets Under Management. This year’s Report presents the most authoritative compilation of first-hand investor data in the global Media & Entertainment industry.

Building on the 2024 baseline, this year’s Report nearly doubles the respondent-base and broadens its geographic scope. It offers a sharper view of where capital is flowing, how sentiment is shifting and what challenges continue to define the relationship between investors and the businesses seeking their support.

Who It’s For

• Professional Investors
  Benchmark your approach against peers in the 2025 Cohort.
  
  
• Media Executives & Founders
  Know your audience. Understand investor perspectives for capital engagement.

• Professional Services Providers
  Banks, lawyers, accountants, and consultants advising media or investment clients.

• Analysts & Journalists
  Citable, data-driven insight into private capital in Media & Entertainment.

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Key Findings from the 2025 Media Investor Cohort

Across our 2025 Cohort of Survey Respondents – the largest directly surveyed population of Professional Investors active in Media & Entertainment – several structural patterns emerge.

Legacy media groups still command capital at scale, but barriers to entry for both entrepreneurs and investors alike have eroded. Artificial Intelligence in production workflows, new forms of audience analytics and direct-to-consumer business models are reconfiguring the industry’s landscape.

Capital and ingenuity are being applied across the industry to test the future positions of even the most confident of industry titans.

From the Report, page 68.

The only dedicated source of sentiment, deal flow analysis and predictions directly from Professional Investors active in the Media & Entertainment industry this year.

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“In our industry, instinct is usually thought to outrun data. This report is a rare exception. It gives creative executives and investors a shared perspective on where they, together, are taking this industry.“
–Colin Vaines, Producer: Gangs of New York, Coriolanus, The Rum Diary & The Unforgivable

Why It Matters

The 2025 Media Investor Survey Report delivers the only quantitative compilation of investor sentiment, deal activity and outlook for understanding professional capital behaviour within Media & Entertainment.

The Report documents how Professional Investors perceive, and shape, an industry defined by creative risk and structural transformation.

The 2025 edition provides investors, founders and advisers with a single reference for how capital truly moves within the industry.

This is the definitive reference for investors, executives and advisers seeking an informed understanding of how capital flows within M&E.

From the Report, page 25:

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What’s Inside

• Cohort Composition
  A complete demographic and capital profile of the 2025 Media Investor Cohort.

• Sentiment
  Investor perceptions of the M&E marketplace this year.

• Deal Flow
  Sourcing, cost, and attrition across the Cohort.

• Capital Predictions
  Outlook and anticipated trends across Media and Content sectors over the next five years.

• Interpretation & Commentary
  Analytical synthesis connecting investor behaviour with broader industry dynamics.

The analytical results of this year’s Survey provide us with a much more detailed view on our Cohort’s perspective and behaviour with respect to opportunities within M&E.

Several findings stand out to us:

• The first is how networks of investors expand and how that process shapes access to capital.

• The second is the influence of geo-politics, which is felt less in revenue projections than in the discipline investors bring to their allocations. 

• The third is the rise of D2C distribution, a shift that seems to be changing how both revenue and capital flows through the industry.

Each of these findings is grounded in the data gathered from this year’s Cohort. Each also carries implications that go beyond the numbers. They offer practical guidance for executives, entrepreneurs and investors seeking to understand where smart money is heading in 2025 and beyond.

From the Report, page 41:

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