COSMEDIA.INC is a relationship-first, results-oriented, media company operating across three key verticals – Content, Production and Distribution.
We partner with broadcasters, studios, producers, streamers, distributors as well as Industry and Government stakeholders to provide best-in-class service. The Company provides expertise in FAST, SVOD, AVOD, Network and Cable and has considerable expertise in content acquisition, content licensing and production.
Mike Cosentino President & Executive Producer
COSMEDIA.INC is led by veteran media executive Mike Cosentino, a senior media leader and content champion with a 25-year track record of success in broadcast, cable, SVOD and streaming during an unprecedented period of success in the Canadian media sector. In January 2021, he left BCE’s (TSX: BCE) media division, Bell Media where he was President of Content & Programming and launched COSMEDIA.INC to leverage his expertise and super-serve the media industry in Canada, the U.S., Latin American and abroad. The company has since partnered with some of the World’s foremost entertainment brands including Fremantle, Viaplay, Shout! Factory Studios, Incendo, Talpa Entertainment, Quiver Entertainment & Distribution, Reel World Management, Aftershock Media, Mogul Productions, Blue Ant Media, A+E Networks and more.
The former President, Content & Programming for Bell Media, Cosentino led programming, production and content for the company’s Entertainment services including #1 ranked CTV, the CTV Streaming Platform, the CTV Cable Channel Group and the International Channel portfolio Discovery Channel, E!, Comedy Central, and MTV. He was a key figure during a 20-year period of unprecedented success and led CTV to 14 straight years as Canada’s #1 broadcaster (2007-21). In his role, Cosentino ran CTV’s Hollywood Buy annually at the LA Screenings and led negotiations with the major Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros., Disney, NBCU, Sony, 20th Century FOX, CBS Studios, Viacom, Fremantle, ITV, BBC, MGM, Lionsgate and more. His love of programming included sports which included CTV’s broadcast of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, the subsequent 2012 London Summer Games and leading CTV’s NFL strategy since CTV won the rights in 2007.
In 2014, he expanded his role to lead the content strategy and launch of SVOD service Crave where he greenlit the first ever Crave Original, the now iconic series Letterkenny. In 2018 he added leadership of the Entertainment Specialty Channels and launched a strategy to expand the CTV channel portfolio, introducing CTV Drama, CTV Sci-Fi, CTV Comedy, CTV Life, CTV Movies and CTV Throwback and combining the inventories to create one supersized CTV branded streaming service, ushering the company into a new digital era. During his tenure at Bell Media, Cosentino took on oversight of the Commissioning & Production teams, Bell Media Studios and the sale of that catalogue around the world. He was instrumental in greenlighting Canada’s most brand defining Original programs including international hits Letterkenny (Crave/Hulu), Transplant (CTV/NBC), Cardinal (CTV/Hulu), Children Ruin Everything (CTV/Roku) along with overseeing the teams who developed some of Canada’s most successful formats including The Amazing Race Canada, MasterChef Canada and most recently, Canada’s Drag Race. Cosentino was a founding Board Member of the Entertainment Industry Foundation Canada and has served on the Boards at WOW! Unlimited Media and the Discovery Channel Canada.
With the fight for viewers and subscribers at an all-time high, the need for compelling content has never been more important. How and where those viewers and subscribers are engaged; how content is windowed and ultimately how that content is monetized is critical, not to mention complicated.
COSMEDIA.INC has hands on experience and deep expertise in content greenlighting, windowing and monetization strategy with a history programming AVOD, SVOD and FAST streaming services as well as linear scheduling expertise across broadcast and cable networks.
Original programming has never been more important to reflect your brand and your value. COSMEDIA.INC is positioned to be a production partner across any program, at any stage in its development. From script development to packaging to digital strategies and back-end finance partnerships, we have the expertise to elevate your content and close deals.
In addition to providing expertise to third party production partners, COSMEDIA.INC is developing its own production slate of content in both the unscripted and scripted genres.
COSMEDIA.INC has considerable expertise and success in Content Distribution having licensed Movie and Series content in English and French as both Sales Agent and Distributor. In January, 2023 the company launched COSMEDIA LATAM, a Latin American Distribution Arm and in May, 2023 it signed an exclusive partnership with Colombia based RCN and its distribution division RCN Distribution to localise and distribute movie, documentary and series content to broadcasters and streamers in the LatAm market.
