TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (TKO)
Combat sports and wrestling promoter and media producer. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 49 of the 51 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
30%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
36%
Employees, annual report
4,000
Leading staffing pattern
Spectator Sports
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now30%
- End of 202735%
- End of 202836%
- End of 203036%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 63%
- Becomes checking a model's work 27%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
TKO Group states over 4,000 employees in more than 30 countries after adding IMG, On Location and PBR in 2025; its UFC, WWE and PBR events are read at spectator sports, its events and hospitality businesses at promoters and its content production at video production, by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 30% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 36% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 36% desk work, 27% people work and 37% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 63% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states employees in more than 30 countries and no count by country; the data service shows 74% of revenue in North America.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had over 4,000 employees in more than 30 countries.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Spectator Sports | 50% | By description (c): UFC, WWE and PBR stage live combat sports, wrestling and bull riding events with their athletes, matchmakers and event operations, spectator sports, NAICS 7112, the SIC 7900 business, the largest part of the workforce. |
| Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events | 25% | By description (c): the IMG media rights and events business and On Location, which sells hospitality packages for events, promote and produce events for others, NAICS 7113, added in 2025 when the employee count rose from 1,300 to over 4,000. |
| Motion Picture and Video Industries | 25% | By description (c): the weekly programs, premium live events and content the companies produce for Netflix, ESPN and other distributors, with the production and media staff behind them, are video production, NAICS 5121. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Over 4,000 employees in more than 30 countries, up from 1,300 a year earlier with the IMG, On Location and PBR businesses added in 2025; athletes under independent contracts are not employees and not counted; no hourly, part-time or union counts stated.
What the filing says about AI
4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says the use of AI in content creation, marketing and distribution is evolving and its ability to use it is uncertain, that it is evaluating AI in its operations against competitors doing the same, and that fake content made with AI applications could dilute the value of its content, in four sentences.
- “Additionally, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in content creation, marketing, and distribution is evolving, and our ability to successfully utilize such technologies is uncertain.”
- “Although we are evaluating the use of AI technologies in our operations, we face competition from other companies in our industry in relation to the deployment of such technologies.”
- “If we fail to adapt our distribution methods and content to emerging technologies and new distribution platforms, while also effectively preventing digital piracy and the dilution of the value of our content resulting from the creation of similar or fake content on artificial intelligence applications, our ability to generate revenue from our targeted audiences may decline and could result in a...”
- “Cyberattacks are expected to accelerate on a global basis in frequency and magnitude, and the techniques and tools (including artificial intelligence) used to breach security safeguards, circumvent security controls, evade detection and remove forensic evidence are evolving rapidly.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 4,000 | 2026-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 1,300 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 1,250 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The three-way split is by description (c); the filing counts no employees by business, and the data service gives no segment table.
- No count by country is stated; the U.S. share is left null.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-071651, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of TKO Group Holdings, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 30% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce TKO Group Holdings, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does TKO Group Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 4,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up TKO Group Holdings, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Spectator Sports; by those patterns the work is about 36% desk work, 27% people work and 37% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does TKO Group Holdings, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 4 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2023 to 2025 name it in 3, 2 and 4 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 8, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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