Media Rights · Original IP · Global Licensing
Circa Media Group manages, licenses and grows original intellectual property across film, television, sport, music and interactive entertainment — for the owners who created it.
Our thesis
Every franchise, format, league and label is a compounding asset. Yet most original IP is undervalued, under-licensed and under-protected. We exist to change that.
For two decades, Circa Media Group has sat on the owner’s side of the table — structuring rights, negotiating distribution, and building franchises that outlast their first window. We are operators and dealmakers, not brokers.
We never take positions against our clients. Rights strategy is designed around long-term ownership value, not short-term fees.
Theatrical to streaming, broadcast to venue, console to cloud — we map the full exploitation chain of every property.
Our partners have run studios, leagues and labels. We negotiate as principals who have sat in every seat at the table.
“The value of a story is decided long after the credits roll. Our job is to make sure it keeps compounding.”— Partners, Circa Media Group
What we do
Most organisations sit on a media business they’ve never built. Associations, sporting bodies and consumer brands already generate audience, content and IP — almost none of it commercialised as its own asset. We find where that business is, then build it.
Chain-of-title, registrations, renewals, clearances and enforcement across 140+ territories. We treat a rights ledger like an audited balance sheet — because that is exactly what it is.
Window strategy, output deals and territory-by-territory sales for film, series, formats and live rights. We negotiate from data: comparable deal terms across every major buyer, updated weekly.
Extending a property beyond its first medium — sequels, spin-offs, games, consumer products, live experiences. We build ten-year franchise plans, then finance and staff them.
Independent IP valuations for M&A, catalogue sales, estate planning and litigation. Our models are relied on by banks, funds and courts on transactions above $5B in aggregate.
The portfolio
62 features and 40+ returning series under active management — from first-look deals to library revivals.
Scripted · Unscripted · Formats
Media rights strategy and tenders for leagues, federations and clubs across four continents.
Broadcast · Streaming · Venue
Publishing catalogues, name-and-likeness estates and touring IP — administered and grown as one portfolio.
Publishing · Estates · Touring
Adaptation rights, esports leagues and in-game licensing for properties born on — and off — the screen.
Games · Esports · Virtual goodsSelected outcomes
Global streaming rights and licenses negotiated for a single portfolio of owned content and IP.
Return generated on future deals relative to the initial cost of acquiring the content and IP.
Format spin-offs produced from a single original property, each extending the IP into its own enduring revenue pipeline.
The team
Circa Media Group has no juniors and no relationship managers relaying decisions from someone else’s desk. There is one team, and collectively it has already done every job it now advises on.
The team has run worldwide studio distribution; the slates it steered earned $6B at the global box office.
Media rights experience at a top-five global federation, architecting three record-setting broadcast cycles across EMEA and APAC.
Two decades in publishing and catalogue M&A, having closed more than $2B in catalogue transactions for writers and estates.
Built and sold an esports league; previously ran worldwide licensing for one of the ten largest game publishers.
Insights
Why library value now outweighs premiere value — and what that means for how deals should be papered today.
A framework for pricing exclusivity when every buyer is also a platform, and every platform is also a rival.
In an era of machine-generated content, verified chain-of-title becomes the scarcest asset in entertainment.
Begin
Conversations are confidential and partner-led. No juniors, no pitch decks — just a clear view of what your rights are worth and how to grow them.