Stripe for media and entertainment
Convert and retain more media subscribers globally
Media and entertainment businesses have more ways to reach audiences than ever before. With Stripe, you can expand internationally, get insights from subscriber data and boost conversion with flexible billing models.
The opportunity
Maximise revenue from media subscriptions
When every subscriber counts, your financial infrastructure can make or break your growth strategy.
Boost conversion with expanded subscription offerings
Let subscribers pay annually, monthly, on a custom schedule or based on usage. Improve conversion with free trials, AI-optimised payment methods and Link, Stripe's digital wallet.
Reduce lapsed subscriptions and improve retention
Minimise involuntary churn with AI-powered Smart Retries, which determines the best times to retry payments using a model trained on 500 attributes across billions of transactions.
Why Stripe
Leading payments performance and innovation
Each year, businesses process $1.4 trillion on Stripe – from growing startups to global enterprises. Our Payments Foundation Model learns from this data to optimise performance at every step, showing customers their preferred payment methods, preventing fraud and recovering failed transactions.
11.9%
average revenue uplift for businesses that switch to Stripe's Optimized Checkout Suite
56%
failed subscription payments recovered by Stripe Billing in 2024, on average
$12
average amount recovered by users for every $1 spent on Stripe Billing
99.999%+
historical uptime maintained by the Stripe API, including during peak volume periods
Use cases
Boost conversion and retention with modular financial infrastructure
Launch new monetisation models, improve the subscriber experience and gain insights from your revenue data – whether you process payments with Stripe or a third party.
Make subscriptions flexible and billing simple
Support a range of billing models, offer promotions and automatically adjust charges when customers switch plans.
Simplify sign-up and optimise payments performance
Improve conversion by letting users sign up in seconds, and boost payments performance with models trained on billions of data points.