MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT MONETIZATION ACCELERATION
Monetize Subscriptions, Reduce Leakage with SAP for Media and Entertainment
- High-volume rating & billing at scale
- Cross-media ad sales to cash
- Accurate, timely royalty settlements
The Gaps Your Dashboards Gloss Over
Product Chaos
Rights, windows, territories, and cost sit in different systems - slowing greenlights and syndication.
Margin Erosion
Make-goods, platform fees, and delivery variances eat into title/season profitability.
Monetization Sprawl
Subscriptions, ad orders, and transactions rely on manual workarounds—billing accuracy and RevRec suffer.
Royalty & Partner Drag
Late/contested statements, opaque recoupment, and mismatched usage delay settlement and strain partners.
Subscriber & Advertiser Churn
Disconnected CX, weak bundling, and poor delivery-to-invoice traceability drive churn and disputes.
This is why M&E leaders need a unified Audience/Content-to-Cash engine - MAM/DAM → Ad Ops/Delivery → S/4HANA → BRIM → Rights/Royalties with an audit-ready finance core - to turn these pain points into measurable outcomes.
S/4HANA + BRIM for M&E: Control, Compliance, Profitability
Subscriptions, Usage, Transactions
Rate and invoice SVOD/AVOD/TVOD, pay-per-view, passes, and bundles; co-terming, mid-cycle changes, proration, and dunning baked in.
Ad Sales to Cash
Package, price, and book orders; reconcile delivery logs; bill accurately across linear, CTV, and digital—then post automatically to finance.
Rights, Licensing & Royalties
Manage contracts and usage ingestion (cue sheets, stream logs, play reports) with auditable, on-time royalty statements.
Production Finance & Project Control
Budget, commit, and settle costs by title/season; capitalize and recognize revenue with confidence.
Partner Settlement
Automate marketplace/app-store fees, distribution splits, and make-good adjustments—down to contract line.
Compliance & Close
IFRS-15, tax/e-invoicing, and audit trails by design; faster close, fewer manual adjustments.
S/4HANA for Media & Entertainment: Control, Compliance, Cash
When BRIM monetizes streams, subs, ads, and events, S/4 turns them into clean financials—so you close fast with audit-ready control.
BRIM + FI-CA for M&E
Unify subscriptions (SVOD/TVOD), ad-sales (AVOD), pay-per-view, and ticketing into one receivables engine with dunning, disputes, and auto-cash.
Profitability by Title, Season & Channel
See margin in real time by content, platform, region, and campaign to steer pricing, windowing, and marketing spend.
IFRS-15 / ASC-606 for Rights & Residuals
Recognize revenue precisely across windows, bundles, and promos—with full traceability for guild residuals and partner splits.
Tax, Treasury & Spend
Manage indirect tax on digital goods, global cash, and production spend controls—keeping audits quiet and margins protected.
Quick-to-Market Advantage: Switch On Revenue, Not Projects
Our accelerators connect ad sales, subscriptions, rights/royalties, billing, and finance—enabling faster go-lives, streamlined operations, and clear ROI without heavy customizations.
Trafficking-to-GL Traceability
Automate order packaging, trafficking handoff, delivery log ingestion, reconciliation, and invoicing—traceable from spot/impression to GL.
IFRS-15 Proration & Dunning
Rate SVOD/AVOD/TVOD, passes, bundles, and usage; automate proration, dunning, and revenue recognition—clean, audit-ready postings.
Contracts, Usage & Settlements
Model contracts (terms, windows, territories, participants), ingest usage (cue sheets, streams, play logs), and generate accurate, on-time settlements.
Audience & Partner Engagement Hub
Unified portals for subscribers, advertisers, and participants: upgrades/downgrades, refunds, disputes, payout tracking, and statement visibility.
BTP DI Migrations
High-confidence migration for subscribers, ad orders, delivery/usage files, and contracts—delta loads, reconciliation dashboards, and full audit trails.
Revenue & Risk KPIs
Real-time KPIs across subscriptions, ads, and royalties: ARPU, churn, sell-through, eCPM, make-good rate, DSO, margin by title/season/channel.
IFRS-15, e-Invoicing, Privacy
Preconfigured policies for revenue recognition, tax/e-invoicing, and data privacy—speeding rollout and reducing manual effort.
From Base to Business Leadership
Revenue & Order Management
- Straight-through usage→rating→billing with clean postings, collections, and dispute workflows.
- Cross-media ad sales: packaging, inventory, trafficking handoff, delivery log reconciliation, and invoice traceability.
Rights & Royalty Administration
- Contract control: rights/windows/territories/participants with automated recoupment and accurate settlements.
- Stakeholder portals for vendors/participants with statement visibility and drill-downs.
Customer & Partner Experience
- Self-service for subscribers and partners: upgrades/downgrades, bundles, refunds, disputes, payout tracking.
- B2B portals for sponsors, distributors, and enterprise deals with contract and order visibility.
Risk, Controls & Assurance
- Leakage detection: duplicate usage, over/under-delivery, unbilled impressions, unpaid entitlements.
- Governance by design: role-based access, privacy controls, and end-to-end audit trails.
The Future of M&E Monetization
- AI-Assisted Packaging - Dynamically price cross-media bundles from actual delivery, margin, and demand.
- Predictive Leakage Control - Surface unbilled usage, make-goods, and royalty anomalies before the close.
- Autonomous Compliance - Audit-ready postings and e-invoicing across regions - built in, not bolted on.
- Audience-to-Cash Loop - Link CX signals to billing and LTV to cut churn and lift ARPU.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is SAP Quote-to-Cash, and why is it critical for Media & Entertainment?
SAP Quote-to-Cash streamlines the entire revenue lifecycle – from quoting and contracting to billing and revenue recognition. It helps M&E companies manage multi-stream revenues like subscriptions, licensing, and ad sales with speed and precision.
