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.

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Digital access
9lei
per month
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This includes:
Unlimited access to abstractionmag.com
Exclusive subscriber content
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Print access
19lei
per month
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This includes:
Monthly print issues
Early bird tickets to Magazine events
Exclusive subscriber content
Billing

Make subscriptions flexible and billing simple

Support a range of billing models, offer promotions and automatically adjust charges when customers switch plans.

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Revolut Pay
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Expiration date
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Billing address is the same as shipping
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Payments

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.

Gross volume
12,382.22lei 10,205.13lei previous period
Top grossing accounts All time data
Prodigy Group 2,608.00lei
Next Level Chicago 1,902.00lei
Togethere 1,801.00lei
CnM Sweets - Wicker Park 1,220.00lei
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Payments

Expand globally and reach new audiences

Offer 125+ payment methods, dynamically localise pricing and surface the options most likely to convert.

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Data Pipeline

Spend less time sorting data and more time acting on it

Connect your Stripe account with your data warehouse to see all your subscriber data in one place.

Customer spotlight

Philo scales its subscription business with Stripe, increasing conversion by 8.5%

Philo partnered with Stripe to simplify billing, improve its sign-up experience and better handle new subscriber surges. After implementing Stripe's Optimized Checkout Suite and AI payment optimisations, Philo increased paid plan conversion, boosted payments authorisations and reduced fraud by 25% – all while processing a record number of subscriptions.

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Philo scales its subscription business with Stripe Billing

Case studies

Trusted by global leaders in media and entertainment

Streaming

TF1 launches France's first paid streaming platform on Stripe, increasing viewers and growing revenue by 40%.

Creator platforms

Substack scales its subscription content business, accepting payments in more than 100 countries with Stripe.

Publishing

Le Monde expands to international markets, consolidating 100% of its digital and print payments with Stripe.

Partners

Grow faster with our partners

From billing integrations and buy now, pay later services, to ERPs and consulting firms, Stripe gives you access to a global eco-system of partners who can help you grow.

Industry recognition

Setting the standard in payments and billing

The Forrester Wave™: Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2026: A Leader

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2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Recurring Billing Applications Leader

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The Forrester Wave™ Recurring Billing Solutions, Q1 2025 Leader

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2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Online Payment Platform Software Providers: A Leader

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Is your billing system holding you back?

Stripe's survey of 2,000 business leaders found that 38% have lost customers due to inflexible billing systems. Learn about the most common challenges they shared – and how to overcome them.

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See Stripe in action and explore tailored solutions and pricing for your business.

Creator platforms

Discover how companies like X, Substack and Kajabi partner with Stripe to accelerate creator monetisation on their platforms.

Professional services

Find out how end-to-end guidance from Stripe's integration consultants and engineers can help you launch and grow faster.

¹ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Recurring Billing Applications, Mark Lewis, Robert Anderson, 6 August 2024.

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