Te Mangai Paho

Name

Te Mangai Paho

Legal name

Te Māngai Pāho

Website

https://tmp.govt.nz

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Wellington

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Appropriations: Te Māngai Pāho receives annual government funding through Budget appropriations. For 2026, received $48 million additional injection for te reo Māori and cultural capability. Funds are distributed as grants to Māori media producers, radio stations, and industry initiatives.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Te Māngai Pāho is a New Zealand Crown entity that distributes government funding to promote the Māori language and culture through media. It runs contestable funding rounds across six streams — Diverse Content, Māori Music (Oro Hāpai, Oro Kura Roa), Māori Radio (21 iwi stations), Industry Support, News & Current Affairs, and the joint Reo Māori Content Co-Fund with NZ On Air — disbursing grants to production companies, broadcasters, and music creators.

Product overview

Te Māngai Pāho is a New Zealand government funding body that promotes Māori language and culture through media. Rather than a unified software product, it operates a portfolio of distinct funding programs: Diverse Content Funding for television and digital media, Māori Music Funding (Oro Hāpai/Oro Kura Roa) for music production, Māori Radio Funding supporting 21 stations across Aotearoa, Industry Support Funding for sector development and events, and News & Current Affairs Funding for regional and national Māori journalism. The organization also partners with NZ On Air through the Reo Māori Content Co-Fund for high-value Scripted and Non-Fiction productions. Funding decisions and applications are managed through an online portal at funding.tmp.govt.nz.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Diverse Content Funding Contestable funding for Māori television, digital, and multi-platform content that promotes te reo Māori and Māori culture to broad audiences, awarded through competitive application rounds.
• Māori Music Funding (Oro Hāpai, Oro Kura Roa) Funding streams for Māori music production, including recording, touring support, and music video production to promote Māori language through music, delivered via the Oro Hāpai and Oro Kura Roa rounds.
• Māori Radio Funding Direct core funding to 21 Māori reo irirangi (radio) stations across Aotearoa, broadcast on frequencies reserved for Māori language and culture promotion.
• Industry Support Funding Funding for events, sector training and development, archiving of funded programming, and activities that promote Māori language and culture within the broadcasting and music industry.
• News & Current Affairs Funding

Quantifiable outcome

• $48 million invested in Budget 2026 for te reo Māori and cultural capability
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• National News Hub PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 October 2025Te Māngai Pāho is funding the establishment of a National News Hub with Māori Television Service ($1.5M) and integrating regional news providers including Tainui Live, Tūranga FM, Te Hiku Media, Te Korimako o Taranaki, and Tahu FM. This creates a collaborative Māori news ecosystem.
• NZ On Air (Irirangi Te Motu)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2024Joint Reo Māori Co-Fund initiative where funding is split 50/50 between Te Māngai Pāho and NZ On Air. The $8.05M co-fund supports Scripted and Non-Fiction content containing at least 30% te reo Māori for broad Aotearoa audiences. This partnership leverages both agencies' mandates to promote New Zealand identity through Māori language content.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Screen Australia: Australian Government agency funding screen content, including Indigenous programming. It is a broad incumbent peer in government screen funding with comparable mandate mechanics and parallel role to NZ Crown screen-funding bodies.
• BBC Alba: BBC's Scottish Gaelic-language television partnership channel. It is a broad international peer as a publicly funded minority-language broadcaster with comparable mandate to promote an indigenous language through commissioned content.
• SBS Australia (Special Broadcasting Service): Australian public broadcaster that serves multicultural and multilingual audiences, including Indigenous-language programming. It is a broad international peer as a publicly funded broadcaster with mandate to support minority-language and cultural content.
• NZ Film Commission: New Zealand Crown entity that funds local film production and talent development. It is a broad incumbent peer in government screen funding, with overlapping objectives on New Zealand content and co-production potential with Te Māngai Pāho-funded productions.
• Radio New Zealand (RNZ): New Zealand state-owned public service broadcaster operating radio networks and digital audio. It is a broad incumbent peer — a publicly funded broadcaster that receives Te Māngai Pāho funding for programming and shares the broader New Zealand public-service broadcasting mandate.

Emerging players

• Indigenous Screen Office (Australia): Australian government-backed body that funds First Nations screen content and talent. It is an emerging international peer with an analogous mandate to fund Indigenous-language and cultural broadcasting, providing a useful comparison for te reo Māori content strategy.

Direct peers

• NZ On Air (Irirangi Te Motu): New Zealand Crown entity that funds public-interest broadcasting and content across radio, television, and digital platforms. It is the most direct peer — jointly administers the Reo Māori Content Co-Fund with Te Māngai Pāho — and serves a comparable statutory funding role with overlapping mandate on New Zealand identity and content.
• Te Mātāwai: Statutory Māori entity that leads Māori-language revitalisation strategy and coordinates iwi efforts. It is a direct peer with overlapping mandate on te reo Māori revitalisation, with potential for collaboration on language and cultural initiatives funded through Te Māngai Pāho.
• Māori Television Service (Whakaata Māori): New Zealand Crown entity that operates the Māori-language television channel. It is both a major funding recipient of Te Māngai Pāho and a structural peer as a statutory Māori-media body, with shared mandate to promote te reo Māori through broadcasting.
• Creative New Zealand (Creative NZ): New Zealand Crown entity that funds the arts, including Māori arts development. It is a direct peer as a government arts-and-culture funding body with overlapping Māori-content funding streams and similar contestable-grant mechanics.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mangaipaho
• Facebookfacebook.com/TeMangaiPaho

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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