Consumer Technology & Media

Powering consumer growth and disruption

Creators have never been closer to consumers. As the boundaries come down between technology, marketing, media, internet, and commerce, disrupters and incumbents alike are competing for the same consumer attention that is critical for generating revenue from consumer fees, advertising, and commerce spend.

Consumer technology and media companies are resetting consumer expectations and creating disruption across industries. As one of the most diverse and fastest growing sectors globally encompassing video, audio, gaming, publishing, e-commerce, marketplaces, and professional sports, we help leaders to navigate this rapid change and uncover opportunities for growth.

What we do

Accelerate advertising growth

Innovating products, pricing, and capabilities with tech and analytics

Build digital businesses

Launching and scaling direct-to-consumer and commerce-enabled businesses

Empower founders

Translating visions into competitive strategies and operations

Scale disruptive innovators

Building financial and operational discipline

Transform organizations

Changing trajectories through holistic interventions in performance, capabilities, and health

Compete for consumer attention

Winning over consumers and inspiring loyalty

Improve the art and science of storytelling

Guiding content investment through predictive analytics

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Case Study

Flying across the sea, propelled by AI

March 17, 2021 -

To help Emirates Team New Zealand successfully defend their America’s Cup title, we introduced them to a new sailor: a McKinsey-built AI bot.

Examples of our work

Redefining adtech strategy

Doubled valuation and reignited 40 percent year-on-year growth for a mobile ad-tech pioneer through a 3-year partnership to redefine their product and geographic strategy, reallocate tech resources, and reset go-to-market activities to unlock new customers and partners across the global mar-tech and agency ecosystem.

Radical post-merger transformation

Doubled the share price of a large, global media company through a 2-year, post-merger transformation that spanned 1,000 cost and revenue initiatives.

Boosting annual revenue growth

Reignited growth for a global gambling operator by using analytics to understand and rapidly optimize marketing activities and customer journeys, taking stagnant revenue growth to 13 percent over the course of 18 months.

Growing direct-to-consumer businesses

Helped both established and upstart media companies in geographies around the world add millions of customers by scaling new direct-to-consumer businesses supported by advertising, subscription, and transactional revenue. Helped clients build capabilities in design, product development, marketing, and consumer analytics.

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Industries Solutions - Tech Tools

Storytelling Analytics

Using big data and artificial intelligence to inform decision making across content value chains

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Report

The ‘attention equation’: Winning the right battles for consumer attention

June 10, 2025 -

The media industry has focused on the quantity of consumer attention rather than the quality, but use of the “attention equation” can begin to bridge that gap.