Sector Overview

An expeditiously changing business with huge & periodic technological advancements challenges each industry to outperform in its unique way. Projections for M&E appear to be exponentially high post-COVID-19 & have boosted consumer engagement with increased screen time at the level ever than before. The pandemic has certainly accelerated the new trends & opened a new line for investment with significant returns.

Recent advancements in technology, delivery platforms, digital payment models require an adoption at a faster pace to outperform in the market and warrant jettisoning traditional operations. To witness the consistent traffic on their platforms media companies consistently strive to create unique, engaging & compelling content maintaining & building the customers sentiments. Generating revenue from new stream & sustainable profit from the existing product is quite challenging with multiple including regionalization & come from mind & market share at regional level rather than at overall market.

With an increase of uncertainty, business leaders proactively collaborating with the connoisseur or consultants to manage & mitigate these challenges. We help business leaders to develop & implement pragmatic commercially viable strategies to win market share, reputation & competitive survival warrants institute must develop innovative & viable strategies maintaining the quality of services, improving stakeholders, consumers experience, comply with all regulatory obligations, periodic internal audits.

Underpinned by a sustainable & transformational business framework is a blend of connoisseur's expertise and powered by Advanced Analytics, Artificial intelligence/ML to transform challenges & crises into opportunities. We work closely with clients to consistently make better decisions to seize competitive advantage across the whole spectrum regionally & globally to achieve growth by enhancing their resilience, assessing well-timed risks, customer engagement, leading-edge innovative solutions, mergers & acquisitions, pricing strategy, lean implementation, maximizing market share, regulatory collaborations for compliance & protecting their IP rights, etc.


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Our Value Proposition


Market Analysis & Partnership Framework  

How ORA helps to address business questions?

An expeditiously changing business with huge & periodic technological advancements, transformation, automation challenges each industry to outperform in its unique way. In existing uncertain & competitive environment, customer preferences and experience is the only key to success. Companies continuously strive to upgrade their platform to enhance virtual quality, content improvement, subscriptions, personalization, aggregation, and distribution for a better and compelling customer experience & to attain sustainable revenue growth.

The Olive Ridley Advisory Media & Entertainment practice works closely with clients in real partnership & understand their goals, aspirations to facilitate strategic & actionable insights, the global market & business intelligence, predict the magnitude of change & its impact, custom research, marketing, attractive ROI, competitive landscape, corporate strategy & governance, business leaders recommendation to execute transformational changes to navigate & unfold the opportunities in 360 view in alignment with the forward-looking plans of the companies with right people & value deal.

ORA’s consultants have deep industry understanding & expertise to cater to the complete value chain across the C-suites or decision-makers to respond to the “direct to customer” model by understanding market dynamics, preferences, a shift in the business. Our tailor-made approach is a blend of strategic intelligence and analytics; nourished by recommendations of an unrivaled network of connoisseurs & powered by advanced analytics to address the complex business challenges, integrate internal workstreams or business functions to ensure impactful results to achieve better performance, sustainable growth, capture market share, people transformation, increase RoI etc.

We have a range of services to embrace the change across the M&E value chain includes TV, Music, OTT & DTC, Publishing, events, Film, Advertising, Live entertainment, Sports league & Telecommunication:

  • Opportunity assessment: Develop a strategic roadmap to attain sustainable profitability & growth in the regionally & global markets. We help clients by devising practical strategies to address these business questions to informed better decisions that cover the market landscape, sizing, optimized level of investment, mapping the customer sentiments on digital platforms, improving viewership scores & right model selection
  • We help the organization to identify and evaluate opportunities for growth through acquisition and new service development
  • Our consultants are experienced in developing strategy from draft to operational excellence for casinos, bingo & related services to ensure value for money & sustainable growth. We cater to the complete value chain includes new product buildout, sales, marketing strategy, innovation, CRM, and supply chain selection
  • Organizers: Our network facilitates the complete management of the event to increase the footfall & audience experience
  • Compliance: We manage the complete regulatory engagement lifecycle for any game across multiple jurisdictions, organizing the events in compliance with the regional regulations, help you to navigate emerging laws & their impact on your organization, devise the regulatory strategy, IP management, documentation, reporting & analytics, licensing
  • Mergers and Acquisitions: Execute value-creating deals by right target identification to evaluation and post-transaction integration to optimize the portfolio
  • GTM & Commercialization strategy: We devise an actionable commercial strategy to ensure a successful product launch.
  • Geography expansion: Our consultants have expertise in handling the new geographies agreement, drafts, policies in compliance with the local regulations & facilitate seamless global expansion
  • Customer analytics: Develop the digital strategy to engage each stakeholder & brand awareness
  • Data analytics: Data-driven scalable strategies to develop & implement end-to-end project management & prepare you for speed to market; we cater complete range including Partner engagement strategy, integration, viewership metrics, Vendor Selections, Hosting advancements, Scenario-Based Planning Model, REMS, Supply Chain Network Design, Capacity planning & to succeed in a digital world 
  • We assist in better customer engagement while maintain cost efficiencies & performance
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ORA Services


Strategic actionable & market insights

Our strategic team strives to get the best solution for you to answer your right questions “at the right time, in the right way” to feed your business decisions. We help clients refine their superior strategies based on actionable corporate intelligence to enable key business decisions to have forward-looking utility globally about their competitor’s key targets, strategies, assumptions, and capabilities.

We help our M&E clients to refine their superior strategies based on actionable corporate intelligence to enable key business decisions to have forward-looking utility globally about their competitor’s key targets, strategies, assumptions, and capabilities. Our approach takes into account business requirements, trends and provides a holistic view to manage, consider each component of data in the pyramid.

We aim to deliver (but not limited to):

  • Intelligence deliverables
  • Early warning of competitive threats
  • Strategic & tactical decision making to gauge external environment

And address key questions (but not limited to):

  • How does your business stack up against your competitors?
  • How competitors are positioned? Where should you position yourself?
  • How can I enter the eSports market with a sponsorship?
  • No, it’s not only about profits; would like to emphasize here about processes, operations, time to market, customer retention, new growth opportunities?
  • What is the growth potential? What is the market size?
  • How to win in a fiercely competitive market?
  • What would an ideal pricing strategy?
  • What are the checkpoints of consumers preferences, how it’s evolving in terms of the platform?
  • What would be an ideal strategy to perform on a new technology platform for better monetization?
  • Who are these casino fans?
  • How do we design the winning bid for a casino license?
  • How is my consumer base segmented?
  • What are the consumer preferences?
  • How should we define the viewership metrics?
  • How do we prioritize the market & shape the market for your business case?


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Sponsors & Customer intelligence

Where should you spend your next dollar? An Organization must decide to choose the right approach to drive their marketing initiatives to achieve a breakthrough in the consumer behavior cycle by leveraging technology advancements. Our team of experts helps you to nurture rigorous analysis of consumer behavior, business environment, internal business technologies to ensure competitive & smarter sales strategy to drive profitable growth.

With a comprehensive database, quantitative approach, analysis of behavioral checkpoints, intelligent information, evince methodology our team extricates meaningful & actionable insight strategy to inform key business decisions to warrant success in their journey & deepen your relationship with loyal customers and generating the prospects. In this digital world, customers have the power to influence & change how companies shape up their business strategies so building a strong digital presence has become a priority. Stabilizing the long-term view in this dynamic world is the key to success & we strive to deliver the same.

Direct to the customer, we help organizations develop and execute successful strategies by:

  • Articulate an approach to cater to consumer interest from short to long term milestones for the enterprise
  • Customer sentiments deep dive to map out their thoughts and preferences to provide actionable results
  • Pivotal strategies to establish & maintain end to for online retail business via digital platform strategy
  • Empirical models for dynamic demands & consumer preferences
  • Leverage Salesforce to maximize their potential & enhance customer experience by monitoring & closing gaps in the sales strategy
  • Improve sales by channelizing right marketing strategies & by customer engagement strategy tailored to local markets and customers needs and behaviors


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Technological watch

Making an informed decision with a minimized risk & anticipating switch is a noticeable competitive advantage & reinforces ORA in a leading organization. Tools such as strategic and tactical surveillance paired with technology watch warrant an accuracy in deciding the level of information, organization & insights to detect opportunities and anticipate changes in the competitive environment. Umpteen times both present & emerging threats for modern business unceasingly cropping. Implementing modern tools such as competitive intelligence, benchmarking & counterintelligence has become essential to survive in this hypercompetitive global market.

We help our M&E clients offers a range of services to cater basic to advanced needs of your organization to ensure you are aware of macro & micro factors impacting or may have an impact on the business. Help you correctly understand the market positioning to leverage any portfolio gaps & recommend emerging technologies and the ones that are becoming obsolete, the latest innovations/technology advancements in your domain, competitor strategies, recently published key patents, and new entrants in the market.

And address key questions (but not limited to):

  • Is the data systematically captured?
  • How are we captured in customers minds?
  • How the new technology landscape looks like & how faster is likely to be adopted?
  • Are there any new entrants?
  • Which are preferable platforms?
  • Which technology is trending?
  • How customers are responding to them?
  • Did you fetch the complete data for analysis?
  • What are the critical watch factors?
  • How does your business stack up against your competitors?


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Mergers & Acquisitions

With a global scale and a regional footprint, we have the business acumen to churn out the rights to enter meaningful deals to maximize value for our M&E stakeholders & make sure all critical markers of success and failure including risk mitigation strategies are included in your M&A process. End-to-end capabilities with the best pricing proposition differentiate us over other players. Whether you’re in the early stages of assessing a deal, or falling short of the value you expected from a prior acquisition, ORA’s approach to integration linked with the culture to business can help accelerate and augment the envisioned results & help you understanding the key question as What tools do you have to make it profitable & making a right decision? Or Are you lack of rigorous target decision criteria? Or How did you arrive to deal with evaluation parameters? & many more.

ORA’s experts can help your company find hidden gems with discovered and innovative lenses that could bring advanced deal makers to the table by:

  • Utilizing AI to deal with search and targeting
  • Targeted and innovative search filters to derive new potential targets and search uncommon platforms to unfold potential risks
  • Incorporate the “independent industry experience”
  • Overall growth strategy & forward-looking utility
  • Bridge critical gaps & insights on efficiency opportunities
  • Support business-critical milestones
  • Optimize cash flow and earnings


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Regulatory & Internal audits

An extensive & broad list of compliance requirements & timelines is getting challenging each day. Complying with the legal obligations and directives across global regulatory environments is the foundational requirement to improve business at today’s dynamic pace.

ORA’s global consultants and teams are well-practiced in assessing emerging regulatory (timelines, deadlines etc.) landscape across industries for governance, third party risks, developing advocacy strategies, enhance transparency to risk management systems, responsive to changes, crisis management & defining process improvements to facilitate informed business decision in compliant with regulations.

Licensing, franchising, supplier or distributor agreements are compounded and non-compliance with the provisions of these agreements can directly arrest the neck of the business. We navigate through each component of the agreement process & ensure high-end service to cater complete value chain of licensing, resolve disputes with partners, minimize overcharge revenue leakage, maximizing the value contract & manage the associated risk.

We help in addressing a range of questions (but not limited to):

  • Navigate through the regulatory framework for operations regionally or globally to achieve seamless operational capacity
  • Help in the accurate documentation for eSports & gaming space complying with all regulations for operations
  • In-time management of the corporate and IT policies
  • Ensure appropriate levels of due diligence and document management for third parties vendors
  • Guiding through new advancements in the payment and money laundering risks
  • Regulatory and compliance training with our experts at the enterprise level & manage the complete lifecycle for any game across multiple jurisdictions


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Brand strategy & Marketing

A resolute strategy is censorious when the path to growth is erratic & business leaders need to make their own way to survive and grow in the industry. Profile, position, investment in your brands offer transformational growth. Using our evince methodology, we create unique brand experiences to unfold consumers behaviors, gain a distinct perspective. Actionable analytics & detailed knowledge help to identify the gaps, improve positioning & connect with customer minds at the right time for our M&E stakeholders.

ORA advisory group helps companies optimize their sales & marketing strategy 360-degree view & yield value-creating commercial strategy by prioritizing opportunities that reflect what the brand will and will not do. We leverage the combination of behavior knowledge, segment behaviors and preferences based on current knowledge, receptiveness to brand, decision drivers, barriers to change, insight databases, partnership with digital platforms to attain actionable insights & Articulate the value you bring to each customer. It’s beyond selling, we reach customer minds with our unique strategy & deliver desired outcomes. We aim to help you transform in a holistic way that’s sustainable and scalable relentlessly.

Direct to the customer, we help organizations develop and execute successful strategies by:

  • Articulate an approach to cater to consumer interest from short to long term milestones for the enterprise
  • Customer sentiments deep dive to map out their thoughts and preferences to provide actionable results
  • Pivotal strategies to establish & maintain end to for online retail business via digital platform strategy
  • Empirical models for dynamic demands & consumer preferences
  • Leverage Salesforce to maximize their potential & enhance customer experience by monitoring & closing gaps in the sales strategy


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Automated insights & dashboards

Business intelligence becomes a mandate with huge data sets rolling over each day to the organizations. Every sector requires an informed data-driven business decision to expand in this competitive market. We support M&E clients to transform their organizations using our intelligence services, at the right time and in the right hands to ensure they have a competitive edge with actionable and impactful insights. Unfortunately, incorrect measures or limited data availability leads to poor forecast, lack of data management, false-positive analysis and hence intelligence initiatives fail due to a combination of challenges. Any such flaws warrant months or years of loss of winning abilities & all CAPEX investments are gone for a toss.

Our teams of consultants are well versed and upgraded with the latest technology trends & understand underlying customer needs, competitive dynamics, and economics. We integrate all data aspects & deliver impactful insights through a wide range of techniques, support models, ad-hoc projects, transformational solutions to maximize ROI through our leading data management and visualization platform.

An expert business intelligence consultant such as ORA not only will mitigate this risk, but ensure your organization achieves new levels of success, we provide multiple scenarios or conclusions using the same data set.

ORA offers the following key services (but not limited to):

  • BI Assessments
  • Dashboard Development
  • Agile Business Intelligence
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Insights delivery
  • Data Processes, Procedure, and Ownership
  • Documentation and corrective action plan preparedness
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Licensing & compliance management

An extensive & broad list of compliance requirements & timelines is getting challenging each day. Complying with the legal obligations and directives across global regulatory environments is the foundational requirement to improve business at today’s dynamic pace. ORA’s global consultants and teams are well-practiced in assessing emerging regulatory landscape across industries for governance, third party risks, developing advocacy strategies, enhance transparency to risk management systems, responsive to changes, crisis management & defining process improvements to facilitate informed business decisions in compliant with regulations.

Licensing, franchising, supplier or distributor agreements are compounded and non-compliance with the provisions of these agreements can directly arrest the neck of the business. We navigate through each component of the agreement process & ensure high-end service to cater complete value chain of licensing, resolve disputes with partners, minimize overcharge revenue leakage, maximizing the value contract & manage the associated risk.

Our experts develop tailor-made solutions depending on your versatile & unique situation to cater as desired with the best result strategy. We cover the complete value chain from monitoring licensee compliance to licensing requirements.

Our featured service under these segments are (but not limited to):

  • Gap Analysis
  • Managing the B2B & B2C license requirements & issues
  • Effective Licensing Position & reporting maintenance
  • Registration
  • Ensure appropriate levels of due diligence and document management for third parties vendors
  • Monitoring licensee portfolio


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Environmental, Social and Governance

Amid sweeping complex regulatory change, various ESG-focused regulations are taking shape and firms are under consistent commitment and pressure to respond to swiftly evolving requirements. Organizations and investors are considering sustainability as a prerequisite of any strategic & operational decision to address major global challenges across sectors; hence ESG assessments have become an integrated part of any managed portfolio more than ever before. The adoption of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations is a driver of innovation and new opportunities that create long-term sustainable value for business and society. The Embedded sustainability framework successfully results in a positive impact on business performance including measurable risk with a robust and clearly defined implementation strategy. Robust ESG framework has the potential to build the resilience of companies & create long-term value creation and represents a market-based framework to guide investors better align their portfolios.

The ESG experts at ORA facilitate all the facets of ESG implementation into the portfolio from the development of the strategic framework to reporting and staying compliant with regulatory requirements. Our team will help in exclusionary screening and work alongside you to develop a robust transformational strategy, provide an implementation roadmap of sustainability and shape your ESG investment strategy.

Bespoke research that leverages our extensive expertise with deep understanding and analytical prowess to offer our clients true intelligence services, and practices to drive resiliency and competitive advantage as they navigate complex problem-solving across the entire process cycle to achieve their ESG goals & We’re committed to net-zero strategies.


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Supply chain & Procurement intelligence

Operational excellence has become a critical strategic organizational requirement to compete in a dynamic environment. Globalization has opened up diverse opportunities across geographies; however in recent years internationalization has come under tremendous pressure with stringent enforcement by policymakers locally & globally with operations, technical, protectionism, licensing and other important aspects to secure stakeholders interest and rights across the value chain. Recent advancements in technology, delivery platforms, digital payment models require an adoption at a faster pace to outperform in the market and warrant jettisoning traditional operations. In today’s complex & dynamic business environment, companies strive to assess the compatibility of their strategy across product or service cycles for guiding investment decisions or revamping the allocated resources to new segments with the needs, resources, and objectives of the organization. Should we be in this business? Should we add a new business? Will it be a sustainable business? How to secure substantial market share? How to increase market share? Should we launch a new product in this geography? Are we working with the right suppliers? What levers should we use to negotiate a better deal with incumbent suppliers? Are we paying the optimal price? Do best-in-class companies adopt a different engagement model? What benchmarks should we include as part of the contractual terms? Where are new threats emerging?

ORA’s consultants have deep industry understanding & expertise to cater to the complete value chain across the C-suites or decision-makers to respond to niche problems areas by understanding market dynamics, preferences & shifts in the business to navigate disruption & operational challenges, mitigate risk and liability with the actionable strategy and practices to drive resiliency and competitive advantage. Our strong heritage in custom research has evolved over our 16 years in business to include capabilities well beyond insight gathering. Bespoke research that leverages our extensive expertise with deep market understanding and analytical prowess to offer our clients true intelligence services as they navigate complex problem-solving across the entire product life cycle. ORA’s tailor-made approach is a blend of strategic intelligence and analytics; nourished by recommendations of an unrivaled network of connoisseurs & powered by advanced analytics to address the complex business challenges, supply chains, integrate internal workstreams or business functions to ensure impactful results to achieve better performance, building resilience and sustainability profitable growth, capture market share, increase RoI etc. We have a range of services to embrace the change across the supply and logistics value chain in Aviation, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Chemicals, Industrials, Medial technology, CPG & Retail and Technology.


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