After two days of conversation, collaboration and community, the MPTS welcomed a record 13,000 attendees from 50 countries, uniting the UK’s media and entertainment industry together in the heart of London, as the event has claimed in a statement.

Last year, MPTS brought more than 300 exhibitors and 12,000 attendees from 52 countries. For this year, the expectations were similar and the final result has registered even more visitors than what they anticipated, although two countries did not attend this edition.

Hosted at London’s Olympia on 14 – 15 May, the red-hot editorially driven programme delivered 100+ free-to-attend sessions across eight theatres, with more than 350 expert speakers and guest keynotes. The bustling show floor was packed with more than 300 exhibitors and sponsors.

Setting the agenda for MPTS, a State of the Nation Production keynote outlined a media and entertainment landscape in which storytellers had to embrace screens, formats and creators of all kinds. “TV doesn’t exist anymore in the way we knew it”, asserted Kate Beal, CEO, Woodcut Media. “We are in the middle of a decade of profound transition, and we’re past the tipping point”, said Derren Lawford, CEO, Dare Pictures. “TV is part of a wider, connected series of industries around the creation and distribution and funding of content”.

Headliners

• Producer and presenter Ross Kemp, who gave a tour of investigative documentaries on the front lines of conflict, drug cartels and organised crime gangs. “They will know in a second if you are not telling the truth”, he said. “I specialise in telling the truth, it is as simple as that”.
• Georgie Holt, whose company Flight Story produces the podcast ‘Diary of a CEO’, declared: “We are in the era of the Founder Creator” — creators who are now in charge of media content and able to monetise outside of traditional gatekeepers.
• NFL professional turned American Football broadcaster Jason Bell explained how sports coverage was evolving into the F1 Drive To Survive model, in which athlete personalities and back stories were the keys to growing audiences.
• Blockbuster editor Eddie Hamilton offered a masterclass about the precision involved in making Top Gun: Maverick and five Mission: Impossible movies with Tom Cruise. He explained: “Every nuance is refined hundreds of times. Sometimes we watch a 10-minute scene 40 times in a day, checking to see where your eye is moving in the frame”.

Diverse representation is a vital sign of the industry’s health and MPTS has the intention of setting the benchmark to secure equal representation and attendance from the next generation, not only across the programme, but also something clearly witnessed across the show floor amongst exhibitors and attendees.

MPTS also focuses on sustainability and, in continuing association with BAFTA albert brought this conversation to the fore with experts including Jimmy Keeping, director and co-founder of Sustainable Film; Nazia Zaman, Warner Bros. Discovery; Junaid Baig, Dimension Studio; and Claire O’Neill, A Greener Future, speaking in the Sustainability Series.

Sam Street, Marketing Officer, BAFTA Albert commented that “MPTS is a really key moment in our calendar. It is always so great to connect with suppliers, companies, studios and creatives who share our common passion for sustainability within screen industries. It has also been really valuable to curate our sustainability series of panels across this year’s show, we’ve had some really insightful discussions and emphasised the importance of environmental focus throughout the screen industries”.

MPTS informs that the brand-new ticketed AI Training programme and the expanded AI Media Zone drew exceptional attendance, with exhibitors such as Dot Group, Moments Lab and Software. Conversations in these packed-out sessions revolved around the impact of AI from ideation to VFX, featuring real-world insights and discussions on bridging the gap between theory and practice from speakers including Pete Archer, BBC; Jon Roberts, ITN and Damien Viel, Banijay Entertainment.

Jane Shepard, Senior Channel Marketing Manager, Sandisk, defined MPTS 2025 as “a spectacular showcase of innovation, bringing together the brightest minds and cutting-edge technology in the industry. An unforgettable experience for all attendees”.

Tom Rundle, Application Engineer, Yamaha Music, detailed: “It has been very busy for us. We have seen a huge mix of customers from the broadcast sector here, but also customers from the other industries which we serve, whether that’s live or theatre who have deliberately come to the show to seek us out to speak to us. Will we be back next year? Yes, absolutely, this is the first year for us, so it was always a bit of a toe in the water, but it’s been vastly more successful than we thought it was going to be”.

Peter Alderson, Business Manager, Nikon, informed: “This is our second year at MPTS, we’ve gone a little bit bigger on our stands, almost doubling it, and I think it’s definitely been worthwhile doing. We’ve partnered with RED, who we recently purchased, and MRMC so it’s making a lovely statement about where we are in the market, and I think we’re in the right place to make that statement here at MPTS”.

Jennifer Hudson, Marketing Executive, Videndum, affirmed: “This show is really important in our calendar – we attend nearly every year and find so much value in it. We get to meet with so many different professionals within the industry, and this year has been really, really positive for us. We’ve walked away with quite a few leads and made new relationships. It’s a fantastic show, and we would thoroughly recommend anyone thinking about coming and having a stand here to definitely do it – you won’t regret it.”

Will Pitt, Head of Sales Solutions, Techex, remarked: “My impression of the show is that it’s been incredibly busy and very positive. Techex particularly specialise in solving some of the headaches that a lot of the broadcast industry is grappling with at the moment, namely, how they transition into an IP-led architecture from a legacy architecture and what that journey looks like. As such, our standards have been packed pretty much throughout the show to come and look at products, but also to come and talk about ideas and lean into what that journey looks like specifically for them. So not a generic journey, but specific to their drivers and their wants and needs in the short and medium term. 
We particularly like MPTS because it’s London based and many of the engineers that we speak to and collaborate with are based here and therefore it’s an easy journey for them to take half a day, a day out to come and investigate what we have to offer, but also to have those conversations. And so for organisations like WBD or Sky, the BBC, ITV, etc. They can come here quite easily and engage with us, spend some time talking in real life and not over teams or Zoom”.

Charlotte Wheeler, Event Director, MPTS, concluded: “Without doubt, 2025 was the most stimulating, ahead-of-the-curve MPTS yet. At a time when we are seeing the industry under real pressure from budget cuts to talent shortages and perpetual change, the conversations and connections on the show floor were positive and demonstrated infectious community spirit. The level of attendance and the quality of attendees from across all sectors of the industry was incredible – not just stakeholders in technology but representatives from production and commissioning, the creator economy, those new to the industry and freelancers were all brought together by MPTS under one roof”.

MPTS affirms that the next 10th edition will return to Olympia Grand Hall, London on 13-14 May 2026, and informs that it is registering a record number of exhibitors already rebooking for 2026.