Media organizations must adapt and embrace new revenue models to thrive. The ability to quickly adjust to market conditions, competition, consumer behavior, and technological advancements is crucial for success. Media companies are now exploring various revenue streams beyond traditional license fees and advertising. They are leveraging audience insights to monetize their content effectively.

Practices for Monetizing Media Content and Services

Distribute own and third-party licensed content

Media organizations can monetize their audience insights by distributing both their own original content and licensed content from third-party providers. This strategy allows them to cater to a wider range of audience preferences and create additional revenue streams through partnerships.

Support complex D2C business models at scale

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) business models, such as subscriptions, transactional, and advertising video on demand, offer immense monetization opportunities. Media organizations should have the flexibility to incorporate multiple business models and customize them based on profitability analysis and audience insights.

Manage multisided revenue sharing at scale

With the rise of platforms and aggregators, media organizations need to manage multisided revenue sharing effectively. This involves establishing transparent revenue-sharing agreements and implementing robust systems to track and distribute revenues to stakeholders.

Process and understand individual financial transactional data

To enhance monetization strategies, media organizations must process and understand individual financial transactional data. This enables them to identify trends, preferences, and purchasing patterns, allowing for personalized monetization approaches.

Adjust business models based on profitability analysis

Profitability analysis is crucial for media organizations to optimize their content offering, business models, and customer lifetime value. By continuously analyzing revenue and profitability data, organizations can make informed decisions regarding pricing, content type, and channel distribution.

Tailor monetization strategy at the individual level

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) can provide valuable insights into consumer behavior. By analyzing data in real time, media organizations can tailor their monetization strategies at the individual level. This data-driven approach allows for personalized experiences while maximizing revenue potential.

Identify challenges in consumption patterns

AI/ML can identify challenges in consumption patterns resulting from media mechanics, media economics, or technical issues with payment systems and promotional tools. By automating fixes or alerting the right teams, organizations can ensure a seamless and uninterrupted user experience.

Identify consumption patterns and revenue/profit trends

Data-driven insights provided by AI/ML enable media organizations to identify consumption patterns and revenue/profit trends. This information helps refine content types, genres, titles, and more, ultimately leading to better monetization outcomes.
 

NERP Solution for Monetizing Audience Insights

It is crucial for media companies to demonstrate their intrinsic value to stakeholders, consumers, advertisers, and talent alike. While advertising dollars continue to be a significant revenue stream, the ability to access granular details of audience insights is becoming essential to compete for future advertising spend.

Unified Commerce

Monetize all types of media content

With the NERP solution, media companies can monetize all types of media content, whether it be physical books, newspapers, digital content, or bundles of both physical and digital content. This flexibility allows companies to cater to diverse audience preferences and maximize revenue potential.

Manage Media Data

Efficiently managing media data is a critical aspect of monetizing audience insights. The NERP solution provides robust tools and capabilities to manage media data effectively, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and accessibility.

Manage Promotions

Promotions play a vital role in attracting and retaining audiences. The NERP solution empowers media companies to manage promotions efficiently, targeting specific audience segments and delivering personalized offers to drive engagement and revenue growth.

Manage Orders

Streamlining order management processes is essential for a seamless customer experience. The NERP solution enables media companies to efficiently manage orders, ensuring timely delivery, tracking, and customer satisfaction.

Business Model Configuration

Design business models and pricing offers

Media companies need flexible business models and pricing offers to cater to diverse customer preferences. The NERP solution allows companies to design business models and pricing offers for one-time purchases, subscriptions, usage-based media services, or physical goods bundled with media services.

Revenue sharing plans

Collaboration with third-party content providers can be a lucrative strategy for media companies. The NERP solution offers the ability to design revenue sharing plans, allowing the distribution of third-party content while ensuring fair compensation and mutually beneficial partnerships.

Entitlement Management

Full control of entitlements

NERP solution enables media companies to model, manage, and track the entire lifecycle of entitlements for their Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) businesses. This includes controlling the number of devices registered to a streaming account and setting limitations on simultaneous streaming to optimize the user experience.

Customer Data Management

Real-time processing of customer data

Handling high volumes of customer data in real time is crucial for effective audience management and decision-making. The NERP solution provides advanced capabilities to process customer data instantly and make it available for other applications, enabling segmentation, audience management, and real-time decision-making on an ongoing basis.

Calculating attributes for effective segmentation

Segmentation is a powerful tool for personalization and targeting. With the NERP solution, media companies can calculate attributes for segmentation, allowing them to deliver tailored content, offers, and experiences based on customer preferences and behaviors.

Customer Behavior Insights

Leveraging AI for valuable insights

Understanding customer behavior is key to optimizing customer experience and monetization outcomes. The NERP solution leverages the power of AI to analyze customer behavior data, generating actionable insights that drive informed decision-making and revenue growth.

Profitability Analysis

Instant analysis across multiple dimensions

Analyzing profitability is crucial for media companies to understand the success and impact of their content, offers, and customer relationships. The NERP solution allows for instant profitability analysis across multiple dimensions, such as content, offer types, customer segments, and more, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous optimization.

Media companies must consistently showcase their inherent worth to stakeholders, customers, advertisers, and talent alike. Despite advertising funds serving as a substantial source of revenue presently and in the foreseeable future, the capability to obtain detailed audience insights – akin to the current segmentation choices available for online and social media advertising – will become imperative prerequisites to effectively compete for advertising investments in the future.

NERP solution provides media companies with the tools and capabilities to monetize their audience insights effectively. By leveraging this comprehensive platform, media companies can optimize their business models, drive engagement, and deliver personalized and profitable experiences to their audiences. With its ability to analyze customer behavior, manage entitlements, and streamline operations, the NERP solution is a game-changer for media companies looking to thrive in the evolving media landscape. Embrace the power of NERP and unlock the true potential of your audience insights.