Calitore Consulting Group advises media, entertainment, streaming, and advertising technology organizations on strategy, transactions, and transformation, at the moment it matters most.
Strategic counsel for studios, broadcasters, and digital publishers on content positioning, distribution strategy, and audience growth in a rapidly fragmenting landscape.
Advisory and strategic playbooks for SVOD, AVOD, and FAST services on subscriber economics, retention strategy, pricing architecture, and advertising monetization.
Strategic guidance for publishers, platforms, and marketers navigating programmatic complexity, CTV growth, identity deprecation, and first-party data monetization.
Insight frameworks, measurement strategy, and audience intelligence programs that help organizations make smarter decisions across content, advertising, and growth.
Strategic roadmaps and advisory for organizations modernizing legacy operations, rethinking workflows, and repositioning for a digital-first competitive environment.
Hands-on strategic advisory for leadership teams on organizational design, operational efficiency, growth strategy, and execution, across media and technology businesses.
Strategic guidance on where and how to deploy AI, from content discovery and audience segmentation to ad decisioning and operational efficiency, grounded in business outcomes, not hype.
Advisory and analytical insight for buyers, sellers, and investors, spanning commercial due diligence, quality of earnings, asset valuation, and post-merger integration strategy.
Streaming economics are under pressure. The advertising marketplace is restructuring around first-party data, CTV, and AI-driven decisioning. Legacy media businesses face existential distribution questions. M&A activity is reshaping the competitive landscape at speed. Calitore was built for exactly this environment, advising organizations that can't afford to be wrong.
Calitore Consulting Group is a boutique advisory firm operating across two integrated practices: industry strategy and transactions. On the strategy side, we advise media, entertainment, streaming, advertising technology, AI, and data organizations on competitive positioning, growth, and transformation. On the transactions side, we provide M&A advisory, deal due diligence, and quality of earnings analysis for buyers, sellers, and investors evaluating opportunities across the media and technology landscape.
The media and entertainment landscape is in a period of structural reconfiguration, and that reconfiguration is driving a significant volume of M&A activity. Streaming services are consolidating. Adtech stacks are being acquired and rationalized. Private equity is deploying capital into content, distribution, and data businesses. In that environment, the quality of diligence work matters enormously. Understanding whether a target's revenue is durable, whether its audience data assets are defensible, whether its technology stack creates or destroys value post-close, these are not questions a generalist can answer. Calitore brings sector-specific knowledge to every transaction we touch.
Our transaction work spans quality of earnings analysis, commercial due diligence, technology stack assessment, management team evaluation, and post-merger integration planning. We assess content library value and rights encumbrances, subscriber and audience retention risk, advertiser revenue concentration, programmatic infrastructure defensibility, and the AI and data capabilities that increasingly determine long-term enterprise value. Whether you are a strategic acquirer, a financial sponsor, or a founder navigating a sale process, Calitore provides the diligence depth and commercial judgment to help you transact with confidence.
Beyond transactions, the same industry depth informs our strategy practice. The organizations that navigate this period successfully will be the ones that understand their markets clearly, move decisively, and execute without losing sight of fundamentals. Calitore provides the clarity and the operational support to do exactly that.
Our advisory practice areas are built around the strategic challenges and decisions most critical to media, entertainment, and technology organizations today.
Fractional advisory for studios, broadcasters, publishers, and CTV or device brands entering or fixing FAST and AVOD. Available on a retainer or fixed-scope basis.
The media industry is being redrawn by streaming, AI, and an advertising market operating by new rules. We help studios, broadcasters, and content companies define where they compete, how they monetize, and what to build next, grounded in how the market actually works today.
Start a conversation →Subscriber growth was the first chapter. Profitability is the harder one. We advise SVOD, AVOD, and FAST platforms on content ROI, churn reduction, pricing architecture, bundle strategy, and advertising monetization.
Start a conversation →Cookie deprecation and signal loss have dismantled the targeting playbooks that defined digital advertising. We advise publishers, platforms, DSPs, SSPs, and brands on first-party data strategy, identity frameworks, programmatic supply paths, and CTV monetization.
Start a conversation →Organizations winning at AI are not those with the most sophisticated models; they are the ones with the clearest strategy for where AI creates real business value. We advise leadership teams on AI readiness, use-case prioritization, vendor evaluation, and governance frameworks.
Explore AI services →Most media organizations have more data than insight. We help companies build data foundations that turn audience intelligence into real business decisions: from measurement frameworks and attribution models to identity strategy and advertiser-facing data products.
Explore data services →The right leadership at the right moment is one of the highest-leverage decisions an organization can make. We provide fractional executive advisory and organizational design for companies building specialized capabilities in streaming, programmatic, data, AI, and media strategy.
Start a conversation →Consolidation is reshaping the media and technology landscape at a pace that demands advisors who understand not just financial mechanics but the operational and strategic realities of the businesses being evaluated. We provide M&A advisory and due diligence for buyers, sellers, and investors across media, streaming, adtech, and AI-driven technology companies, assessing content libraries, technology stack defensibility, audience data assets, advertiser relationships, and management team depth.
Start a conversation →Ready to explore how Calitore can support your organization?
Calitore places specialized talent directly with leading media and entertainment clients. Our current openings are on-site engagements in Culver City, CA. All roles are hybrid, Monday through Thursday on-site, Fridays remote.
Support advertising across a major entertainment company's direct-to-consumer streaming portfolio including AVOD and Live TV platforms. Mid-level PM role translating commercial and operational needs into clear workflows, coordinating campaign and platform readiness, and improving advertising delivery and reporting.
We are partnering with a major entertainment company to hire a Product Manager, Ad Product to support advertising across its direct-to-consumer streaming portfolio, including AVOD and Live TV platforms. This is a hands-on, mid-level role for a product professional who can translate commercial and operational needs into clear workflows, coordinate campaign and platform readiness, and help improve advertising delivery, reporting, and partner support.
Working with guidance from Product and Monetization Leadership, this role will partner with Ad Operations, Commercial Partnerships, Engineering, QA, Data and Analytics, Content Operations, Marketing, vendors, and business teams. The Product Manager will own defined advertising operations workstreams and service improvements rather than setting ad product strategy.
Advertising Operations and Service Readiness
Campaign Delivery and Cross-Functional Coordination
Ad Delivery, Support, and Improvement
Hybrid, Culver City, CA · Monday–Thursday onsite, Friday remote · Full-time, 40 hours/week · $48–$52/hr
Hands-on Technical Project Manager to drive execution and delivery across FAST streaming technology initiatives at a major entertainment company. This role operates at the intersection of technical validation, engineering delivery, and program management — requiring direct API testing, SQL, and cross-functional leadership.
We are partnering with a major entertainment company to hire a Technical Project Manager (TPM) to drive execution and delivery across FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) technology initiatives.
This is not a traditional project management role focused primarily on schedules, meetings, and status reporting. We are looking for someone who can operate at the intersection of technical execution, testing and validation, engineering delivery, and program management. The TPM will work directly with internal engineering teams, product, QA, video operations, data teams, and external technology vendors. In addition to owning schedules, dependencies, risks, and delivery, this person will be expected to personally validate APIs, integrations, data flows, system behavior, and vendor deliverables.
The ideal candidate has a strong technical foundation and is comfortable getting hands-on with APIs, SQL, logs, data, monitoring tools, and technical documentation. A previous background in software engineering, QA automation/SDET, solutions engineering, systems engineering, or another hands-on technical discipline is strongly preferred.
This role reports to the VP of Technology & Architecture.
Technical Validation
Program Management & Cross-Functional Leadership
Hybrid, Culver City, CA · Monday–Thursday onsite, Friday remote · Full-time, 40 hours/week · $60–$65/hr
Senior Software Engineer specializing in video playback services and player technologies for a major streaming platform across web, mobile, and connected TV. Focus on building, optimizing, and evolving the playback platform using Shaka Player, Media3, Video.js, hls.js, and related frameworks.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in video playback services and player technologies to help deliver world-class streaming experiences. In this role, you will focus on building, optimizing, and evolving the client's playback platform, working across web, mobile, and connected devices. You will leverage modern player frameworks to fine-tune playback performance, reliability, and quality at scale.
The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate closely with video infrastructure, CDN, encoding, product, and device teams to ensure a seamless, high-quality viewing experience.
Hybrid, Culver City, CA · Monday–Thursday onsite, Friday remote · Full-time, 40 hours/week · $79–$85.50/hr
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