Stories that move.
Systems that work.

Zava Global is a diversified American media company — five networks, a streaming service, a studio, a digital and audio publisher, and an advertising and creative agency — reaching 140 million people every month.

How we workOur story

Microsoft's customer zero for media & entertainment. We publish what we learn.

Zava Networks team reviewing the evening rundown
Copilot · Zava Networks Ops
27years since our first broadcast
140Mmonthly audience across TV, streaming, audio and digital
$4.62BFY2025 revenue, up 11.3%
11,400people in five cities
Our businesses

Five divisions. One group.

Share of FY2025 revenue. Each division runs on shared data, shared identity and a single conversational front door.

Zava Networks

Five linear networks in 92M US homes.

31% · $1.43B
Zava+

Streaming. 31M subscribers, live sport and originals.

27% · $1.25B
Zava Studios

Scripted, unscripted and live-event production.

18% · $0.83B
Zava Agency

Advertising and creative: campaigns, branded content, ad sales.

7% · $0.33B
Zava Digital

Publishing, podcasts, 41 radio stations, newsletters, events.

17% · $0.78B
How we work

Media Intelligence
3 distinct layers, many clear benefits.

We didn't replace our legacy systems to become a modern media company. We connected them, in three layers on the Microsoft stack. Select a layer to see how we built it, and a demo you can try.

Grace Adeyemi's production dashboard in Copilot, with five recommended opportunities ranked by Media Intelligence
Copilot across Scheduling, Rights, MAM, Ad Sales, ERP and CRM · dashboards built by their owners
01 — UI for AI · Copilot

Keep your systems.
Ask, or describe the view.

Our scheduling platform is older than some of the people who use it, and it's excellent. So we kept it, and connected it with every other legacy system to Microsoft Copilot through MCP. Nobody signs into five tools and hunts for an answer. They ask, and Copilot does the work. When leaders need a view, they describe it in plain language and Copilot builds it. We went from 340 dashboards nobody looked at to 41 that people actually run the company from.

Microsoft 365 CopilotMCP connectorsCopilot StudioCopilot in Power BIMicrosoft TeamsEntra ID
Why we stopped logging into five systems READThe dashboards we didn't file a ticket for READTonight's 8pm slot, in one prompt CRO DEMORevenue Command Center CRO DEMO
Media specific tools from Microsoft and partners, such as production planning, show-day operations and rights checks, built on the Microsoft stack
1P Microsoft and 3P partner tools · built for media · on the Microsoft stack
02 — Media specific tools · 1P & 3P

Built for media.
Built on Microsoft.

Copilot is only as useful as the tools behind it. Our media specific tools, first-party from Microsoft and third-party from partners, do the work only a media company does: production planning, show-day operations, rights clearance, ad pacing, brand safety and localization. Each one leverages the full Microsoft stack, so it shares the same identity, governance and data, and shows up in Copilot and Teams where people already work.

Copilot Studio agentsMicrosoft FoundryPower PlatformMicrosoft TeamsPartner solutions
Show day at Zava Studios, run from Teams READOne decision-ready production plan PRODUCTION DEMOA crew change across three systems PRODUCTION DEMOBrowse 1P and 3P tools in the Showcase SHOWCASE
Data from Zava Networks, Zava+, Zava Studios, Zava Agency and Zava Digital flowing into Microsoft Fabric OneLake
14 source systems · 27 years of history · one governed OneLake
03 — Data is your IQ · Fabric IQ, Work IQ, Web IQ

All your data.
The whole business informed.

Every good answer starts with the right data. Fabric IQ brings five divisions, three acquisitions and three decades of business data together in Microsoft Fabric, and OneLake shortcuts mean nothing had to move. Work IQ adds how we work: the mail, meetings, files and chats in Microsoft 365. Web IQ adds what's happening outside: markets, audiences and news. Governance travels with the data, so Copilot's answers are trustworthy and reach only the people who should see them.

Fabric IQWork IQWeb IQOneLake shortcutsPurview
One lake for a 27-year-old media group READLive cost-to-air across every production COO DEMORights & royalties, reconciled nightly FINANCE DEMO
Blog

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Customer Zero program

We run on Microsoft.
We show our work.

Zava Global is Microsoft's reference customer for media & entertainment. Everything we build — connectors, data models, dashboards, and the mistakes — is documented on our blog so other media companies can move faster than we did. Our sister company Zava (retail) does the same for retail.

UI for AI CRO demoData is your IQ COO demoAll live scenarios Demos
Our story · 1998 → today

From two stations
to 140 million people.

Zava Broadcasting went on air from a converted warehouse in Culver City with two regional stations and 61 employees. Twenty-seven years later, Zava Global is a NASDAQ-listed diversified media company — and we still make things the same way: with curiosity, discipline, and a bias for building.

ZN Sports live event, 2025
1998

Zava Broadcasting founded

Founders Elena Marchetti and David Okoro acquire KZAV-TV Los Angeles and KZSD San Diego. First broadcast: 14 September 1998.

2004

Cable: the Pulse acquisition

Lifestyle network Pulse brings national distribution and the group's first advertising sales house.

2009

Zava Digital launches

A newsroom-first digital publisher, later home to 14 newsletters and the Fieldline events business.

2012

Zava Studios opens

In-house production begins with the unscripted hit Coastline, now in its 14th season.

2016

IPO on NASDAQ (ZAVM)

Listing raises $640M to fund ZN Sports rights and the streaming build. Revenue: $2.14B.

2019

Zava+ launches

Direct-to-consumer streaming, built on Azure from day one. Four million subscribers in the first year.

2020

Remote production on Azure Microsoft

The pandemic forces 100% remote production. Studios moves editing, review and approvals into Azure and Teams in eleven weeks — and never fully moves back.

2022

Fieldcast joins Zava Digital

Acquisition of the Fieldcast podcast network and 41 radio stations brings audio into Zava Digital.

2022

Zava Agency formed

The ad sales house that came with Pulse joins our in-house creative studio as a full-service advertising and creative agency — the group's fifth division.

2023

One lake Microsoft Fabric

Group-wide data consolidation into Microsoft Fabric begins. Fourteen source systems, 27 years of history, one governed OneLake.

2024

Copilot becomes the front door Copilot · MCP

Legacy systems connected to Microsoft 365 Copilot through MCP. Employees stop hunting across tools and start asking. Named Microsoft's media & entertainment customer zero.

2025

Customer Zero program and blog launched

We commit to publishing how we use the Microsoft stack so other media companies can move faster. Revenue passes $4.6B.

What we believe

Audiences first, always

Every decision starts with the person watching, listening or reading — and ends with whether we earned their time.

Keep what works, connect the rest

We don't rip out systems that do their job. We connect them, govern the data once, and put a conversation in front of everything.

Show your work

Transparency to our audiences, our investors and our industry. It's why our blog exists.

Build like a studio

Small teams, clear owners, fast iteration — whether it's a new show or a new data model.

Leadership

The people behind the group.

An executive team drawn from broadcasting, streaming, studios and enterprise technology, overseen by an independent board with deep media, finance and governance experience.

Zava Studios planning session, Los Angeles
Executive team

Executive team

The roles you'll meet in our demos — CFO, COO, CRO, Head of Production — are these people's actual jobs.

Governance

Board of Directors

Nine directors, seven independent. Committees: Audit (A), Compensation (C), Nominating & Governance (NG), Technology & Data (TD).

Investors · NASDAQ: ZAVM · Fiscal year ends 31 December

Ten years on the record.

Zava Global listed in 2016. Since then revenue has more than doubled, adjusted EBITDA margin has expanded from 20.1% to 27.1%, and the group has moved from a broadcaster to a diversified, data-driven media company.

FY2025 revenue$4.62B▲ 11.3% YoY
Adjusted EBITDA$1.25B27.1% margin
Net income$665M▲ 18.8% YoY
Diluted EPS$3.14Dividend $0.88 / share
Revenue and adjusted EBITDA, FY2016–FY2025 ($M)
RevenueAdj. EBITDA
FY2025 revenue by division
    Ten-year financial summaryUSD millions except per-share data and percentages

    Reports and filings

    FY2025 · 10-KAnnual report
    Filed February 2026     Q2 FY2026 · 10-QQuarterly report
    Filed August 2026     Q2 FY2026Earnings call
    Replay, transcript, slides     2026 ProxyProxy statement
    Annual meeting 14 May     Impact 2025ESG report
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    The Zava Global blog

    How a media company
    actually runs on Microsoft.

    Company news, industry perspective and — the reason most people come here — the working notes from our Customer Zero program: how we connected legacy systems to Copilot, moved 27 years of data into Fabric, and let our leaders build their own dashboards.