Eva M. Baltés
Digital Business Architect · Cross-sector

I build the frameworks that turn digital businesses into revenue engines that compound — across industries.

I architect growth as a portable method — proven in media, built to travel into luxury, fintech and digital-native businesses.

Based in Spain · Madrid · Paris · London — Full EMEA mobility
The thesis

Growth isn't luck. It's an architecture — and the architecture travels.

I don't chase acquisition. I build revenue in layers on the base that already exists, tune the lever to the stage of the cycle, and turn a catalogue into a flywheel. The method was proven on a real monetization P&L against global streamers — and it moves cleanly from media into any sector building, transforming or scaling a digital business.

The method

Three pillars that operate at once, not in sequence.

The same three that give the mark its three points.

Layered Monetization

Revenue built in layers on one base — free, freemium, paid, premium. Each layer earns its place by what it unlocks for the next. The architecture compounds.

Growth Flywheel

Acquisition, engagement, monetization and retention aren't isolated KPIs. They're a single self-reinforcing loop. The system either compounds or leaks.

Counter-Positioning

In saturated markets, the question isn't how to do more of the same. It's where the structural gap lives — and how to occupy it on perceived value, not volume.

The market changes.The architecture doesn't.

The proof

Not a framework from a panel. A framework from a P&L.

~700Ksubscribers monetized and scaled at Orange TV España
10yrat Orange — nine of them owning the monetization P&L, through the Netflix-era disruption
1st4K TV series channel in Spain — Orange Series, award 2018
50titlesEuropean films & series — seven directors backed before the market did (Cannes 2026 · Goya 2025)

Every framework I now apply was stress-tested with real subscribers, real catalogue and real revenue — not external panels or third-party data. That distinction is the point.

Track record

A decade architecting a digital business — then systematizing it.

  • 2011–21
    Orange TV España — Head of Business & beyondOwned the monetization P&L — everything that earned above the base subscription: on-demand, transactional, premium packs, pricing and partnerships. Then the same architecture carried into 5G — ecosystem development with Google, Samsung, PlayStation Talents and the Orange 5G Lab in France.
  • 1992–02
    Movierecord — cinema & in-flight entertainmentWhere content, attention and revenue first became one equation. Direct acquisition from Hollywood majors; WAEA awards.
  • Finance
    Master in Financial Management · EAEThesis: the streaming industry's shift from growth-at-all-costs to margin discipline — Netflix, Disney, WBD, Paramount.
  • Now
    Strategic Digital — Founder & PrincipalDigital business architecture studio. The method systematized and portable: Audience-to-Value (A2V™), and cross-sector ventures — my own and others’.
What I've been building

A deliberately independent stage — advising, building, writing.

Because architecting is sharper when you are also designing. While assessing the right next executive opportunity.

Strategic Digital
Digital business architecture studio — monetization, product and audience strategy.
Cine y Series
Content-discovery app — B2C2B recommender.
The Culturator
Luxury cultural brand — Mediterranean cultural journeys for high-net-worth audiences.
Momentum
In development — next product in the pipeline.
Audience-to-Value (A2V™)
Methodology and value-intelligence framework, validated against ten years of field experience.
The mediterranean eye

Culture and premium audiences as a through-line — from Orange to The Culturator.

Let's talk

For director-level conversations.

eva@evambaltes.com