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
Maximize 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-optimized payment methods, and Link, Stripe’s digital wallet.
Reduce lapsed subscriptions and improve retention
Minimize 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 optimize 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 monetization models, improve the subscriber experience, and gain insights from your revenue data—whether you process payments with Stripe or a third party.
Billing
Make subscriptions flexible and billing simple
Support a range of billing models, offer promotions, and automatically adjust charges when customers switch plans.
Payments
Simplify sign-up, and optimize payments performance
Improve conversion by letting users sign up in seconds, and boost payments performance with models trained on billions of data points.
Payments
Expand globally, and reach new audiences
Offer 125+ payment methods, dynamically localize pricing, and surface the options most likely to convert.
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 optimizations, Philo increased paid plan conversion, boosted payments authorizations, and reduced fraud by 25%—all while processing a record number of subscriptions.
Case studies
Trusted by global leaders in media and entertainment
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 ecosystem of partners who can help you grow.
Industry recognition
Setting the standard in payments and billing
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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Professional services
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