Smaller TV production companies as UFC productions face severe financial pressure as major subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) channels cut commissioning budgets, hoard intellectual property rights, and dominate viewing time. This power imbalance squeezes independent studios, forcing many into mergers or closures amid rising production costs.
Asymmetric commissioning spend: Major platforms allocate the vast majority of high-end budgets to mega-producers or internal studios, starving small-to-midsize indies of steady workflow. Loss of IP and back-end rights: Streaming giants frequently demand worldwide buyout rights, eliminating downstream secondary-market revenues that smaller creators historically relied upon to stay solvent.
Data opacity: Major SVOD platforms rarely share detailed viewership metrics with external production partners, making it harder for small creators to leverage performance data for future pitches and Inflation and rising overhead: High-end facility expenses and tied-up studio spaces driven by big tech competitors make budget management perilous for independent teams working on fixed commissions.
Everything now goes through SVOD representatives so called Aggregates’ who decide whether your program is suitable for their platform. Getting a meeting with such representatives is extremely difficult, and communication is usually limited to email only.
Fortunately, UFC still has access to these channels. We have something many others don’t: a proven international track record. That gives us credibility and opportunities. At this moment, two of the world’s largest SVOD platforms have already shown serious interest, meaning we have successfully overcome one of the biggest obstacles.
Meanwhile, we have moved on from inadequate TV producers and amateur streaming partners and have now connected with one of the largest television companies in the world. After reviewing our previous UFC editions, they immediately became enthusiastic about the concept. As announced earlier, UFC is now producing independently, and through our new TV partner we have secured several highly professional executive production partners who are eager to get started to a 24-episode UFC series.
Naturally, the next host country will surpass everything we have done before — because this is not called the Ultimate Challenge for nothing. Prepare yourselves for challenges that are heavier, longer, bigger, deeper, colder, wetter, more intense, and even more fun than ever before. A total of 16 brand-new challenges across 10 days will soon determine whether you truly have what it takes. And NO — as always, the challenges will remain secret until one hour before each discipline begins.
As experienced during previous UFC editions dating back to 2000, television producers as well as mainstream broadcasters such as SBS6, Yorin, and RTL engaged in conduct that can reasonably be described as deceptive and misleading, while apparently considering such practices to be acceptable.
As an external party, essential information, applicable regulations, contractual obligations, official production fees, and specific requirements were deliberately withheld. Requests for clarification were repeatedly met with misleading or inaccurate information, seemingly intended to prevent a proper understanding of the true circumstances.
Furthermore, the television industry has long been associated with individuals who have inappropriate the ideas and intellectual property of others without authorization.
It was only discovered by coincidence that a broadcaster had intentionally kept a scheduled meeting waiting for approximately one and a half hours as part of an apparent effort to mislead. Even more revealing was the subsequent discovery of an internal memorandum stating: “Provide him with the viewing rates, but do not make him any wiser than he already is. “The memorandum bore the name and signature of an authorized representative of the broadcaster, go figure…
Yes, we’ve seen it all. but that’s already behind us, now we move on.
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