Streaming, Gaming & Entertainment

Run Streaming and Gaming Subscription Billing at Scale

NLZIET reached a 98% payment authorization rate on Chargebee.

Chargebee bills every entertainment model, enforces access by tier and device, and connects the subscriber relationship across web, apps, and other channels. Usage and engagement can provide additional context around when a viewer or player is ready for more, starting to disengage, or approaching a revenue moment. Chargebee keeps access, monetization, retention, and payment recovery connected on the short cycles this industry runs on.

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Who it's for

Serve Growth, Monetization, and Finance Teams

Two teams carry entertainment revenue, and both run on the same platform.

Product, growth, and monetization

Product, growth, and monetization leads run high-volume subscriptions on short cycles. They need offer testing, entitlement control, and bundling they can change without an engineering ticket.

Finance and RevOps

Finance and RevOps leaders carry licensing or distribution revenue alongside subscriptions. They need one customer record, one close, and revenue schedules that hold up in audit.

Run Entertainment Revenue End to End

Chargebee handles the full viewer and player lifecycle, from signup to recovered renewal.

01

Acquire

Convert audiences with hosted pricing and checkout across web, mobile, TV, and console.

02

Grow

Grow revenue with add-ons, virtual goods, and bundles gated by an entitlement engine.

03

Retain

Meet cancel intent with the right save offer on the cycle where churn moves fastest.

04

Recover

Retry failed payments automatically and keep involuntary churn off the support queue.

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What Chargebee Provides for Streaming, Gaming & Entertainment

Every capability your team needs to run entertainment subscriptions at volume, from acquisition through recovery.

ACQUIRE

Convert Audiences Into Paying Viewers and Players

Chargebee turns the signup moment into a testable surface.

Providers convert more of their audience when offers can adapt to meaningful audience segments and checkout stays light across every screen. Run hosted pricing and checkout across web, mobile, connected TV, and console, with testing on price and plan. Support free trials, freemium, and ad-supported tiers with offer experimentation by cohort.

Bill SVOD, AVOD, TVOD, and hybrid OTT models from one catalog, plus pay-per-view and season passes. Localized payment methods and currencies drive acquisition across markets.

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ENTITLEMENTS

Enforce Access Across Tiers, Devices, and Titles

Access rules are their own problem: who watches, on how many screens, in which territory.

An entitlement engine separates access from how subscribers pay. You gate premium content, live events, and pay-per-view by tier.

Apply concurrent-stream limits, device registration, and territorial-rights rules consistently across titles and platforms, with no custom code per rule. Cross-title and cross-platform entitlements run on one subscriber identity.

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GROW

Grow Revenue With Add-Ons, Bundles, and Virtual Goods

Structured testing lifts attach rates on add-ons and bundles.

Sell premium tiers, live events, virtual goods, and other add-ons alongside the base subscription. Usage and engagement signals can reveal moments when a viewer or player is reaching for more, giving teams better context for when to place the next upgrade or add-on path. Season and battle passes run on the same catalog, and free-to-play titles convert into paid tiers without a separate billing path.

Bundle across streaming, gaming, and partner services, and co-market with telcos, device makers, and platform partners. Test bundle composition and price, then run family, group, and multi-title plans on one platform.

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RETAIN

See Churn Risk Before the Next Cycle

Monthly and other short billing cycles leave less time to recover a relationship once it begins to weaken.

Monthly and other short billing cycles leave less time to recover a relationship once it begins to weaken. Churn Propensity Scores flag viewers and players showing churn risk 30 to 60 days ahead, using engagement and subscription patterns available in the relationship. Chargebee Growth can then put the relevant save path in front of the subscriber before renewal.

Win-back campaigns bring lapsed subscribers back with an offer tied to why they left. On a short renewal cycle, each recovered subscriber compounds across every future period.

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RECOVER

Recover Revenue the Moment a Payment Fails

A failed payment on a monthly plan costs revenue every cycle until it is fixed.

Revive weighs more than 200 signals around each failed payment and determines when and how to retry it. Chargebee's payment infrastructure can then keep recovery moving across the gateways supporting the subscriber relationship.

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BUILT FOR SCALE

Scale to New Markets and High Transaction Volume

Entertainment audiences are global, and transaction volume is heavy.

Chargebee runs on an architecture built for constant model change and heavy transaction load. Multi-currency billing, gateway orchestration, and localized methods cover each market you enter.

DRM, CMS, game-platform, and analytics integrations sit alongside the payment stack. Revenue recognition supports ASC 606 and IFRS 15 reporting across entities and currencies. A viewer may subscribe on the web, renew through a mobile app, and watch on a connected TV. Chargebee keeps the subscriber context connected across those channels, so teams can understand the relationship without treating each device or purchase path as a separate customer.

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What powers entertainment revenue

Power Entertainment Revenue at Scale

Every feature needed to run entertainment subscriptions at volume.

SVOD, AVOD, TVOD, and hybrid OTT on one platform, plus pay-per-view and season passes.

RightNow Media

Multi-currency billing without rebuilding the stack

“We needed a more robust system like Chargebee that could support multiple currencies, payment gateways, and language translations.”

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Ellen Towery, VP of Finance & Operations, RightNow Media

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Chargebee runs recurring, ad-supported, transactional, and hybrid OTT models in one system. It also supports pay-per-view, season passes, and tier-based entitlement enforcement.

Chargebee enforces entitlements by tier, with concurrent-stream limits, device registration, and territorial-rights handling. The same rules apply consistently across titles and platforms.

Yes. Chargebee runs direct web and connected-TV billing alongside app store channels. Subscribers acquired through in-app purchase and through your own checkout sit on one customer record.

Yes. Chargebee bills add-ons for premium tiers, live events, virtual goods, and season passes alongside subscriptions. Product teams configure and test these without engineering support.

Chargebee Growth meets cancel intent with the save offer most likely to keep each subscriber. It runs win-back for lapsed viewers and recovers failed payments automatically on every cycle.

Chargebee connects to a wide range of payment gateways and supports 100+ currencies. Localized payment methods and payment routing lift authorization rates and recover involuntary churn.

Yes. Chargebee produces audit-ready revenue schedules aligned to ASC 606 and IFRS 15 across entities and currencies. Finance closes one set of books across subscription and licensing revenue.

Product and growth teams configure pricing, plans, add-ons, and bundles in the UI and launch in hours. No engineering release is needed for each change.

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