Aria for Media and Publishing

Aria is unique in managing the monetization of both physical and digital assets as a single convergent service.

Combining ownership and access business models

Staying relevant in today’s landscape and monetizing investments in news and content requires publishing companies to bring the agility of digital into the print market. To effectively serve both print and digital customers, they must offer both ownership and access consumption models. They need a common and coordinated platform that can harness operational efficiencies to deliver premium services and superior customer care.

Benefits

Aria Media and Publishing

• Transition to converged print and digital
• Control access rights from a single point
• Coordinate delivery by time and address
• Optimize investments in existing systems
• Excite loyalty with dynamic offers
• Ensure revenue

Combine digital and print titles

Aria is a single platform to manage your print subscriptions while converging digital subscriptions into bundle offers and options – enabling new revenue growth and simple customer transition.

Coordination across your access control and rights systems

As customers change subscription preferences and requirements, Aria manages all access control systems as holistic account services across print and digital products.

Manage distribution, calendars and schedules

Manage accounts and orders in accordance with title and distribution calendars and schedules. Allow customers to move anytime and enable their subscriptions to follow them.

Integrate Aria with existing ecosystems

Aria’s flexible workflow and API-oriented architecture enable integration with your existing ecosystem, including print management, as part of a fully automated business process management solution.

Sophisticated product and promotion catalogue

Aria enables subscriptions to be dynamic with automated bundles, discounts and promotions, based on usage, behavior and customer personalization.

Automate subscriptions, access and payments

Aria fully manages payment and credit management – linked to access rights, automated retries and notifications for graceful revenue collection and service control.

Introducing Aria Media and Publishing Suite

Aria offers the Aria Media and Publishing Suite (AMPS) that extends Aria Billing Cloud to unify and manage subscriptions for both print and digital media across your brand estate. Aria Media and Publishing Suite holds the state of customer and enables an omnichannel strategy via self-service portals, customer service representatives and channel partners.

Media and publishing features

Title management

Title management provides unified management of titles (newspapers, magazines etc.) whether published via digital or physical media. Title name, description, distribution system, distribution calendar, publishing days, revenue controls and access controls are centrally orchestrated by Aria Media and Publishing Suite.

Distribution management

Distribution management provides unified management of shipping addresses for customers subscribing to physical media. Content providers can manage physical deliveries to customer-defined addresses, allowing customers to split delivery among multiple addresses and across different schedules, synchronizing seamlessly with physical distribution companies.

Access management

Access management provides a single system to manage distribution of access rights for customers’ digital media subscriptions. Whenever a subscriber changes their set of subscriptions (additions, cancellations etc.), the details are instantly coordinated with the access control system to control access to newspapers, articles and other digital content.

Built on Aria Billing Cloud

Aria Media and Publishing Suite is delivered on Aria Billing Cloud and comes with all the advantages of a pure SaaS product, from unlimited performance and APIs to continuous updates and operational service management.

Aria customer success

Why Polaris Media chose Aria

Headquartered in Norway, Polaris Media is one of Scandinavia’s largest media houses and printing groups, with 643,000 subscribers and 78 media houses. In this testimonial video, Polaris’ Petter Tomren explains that Polaris selected Aria as they were looking for a billing solution that was optimized for the digital world and that would enable them to deliver more complex products.

Why Berlingske Media chose Aria

Founded in 1749, Berlingske Media is a leading Danish media company. Berlingske selected Aria to enhance their billing capabilities, support the rapid introduction of new digital services, and improve the end-customer experience.

Media & Publishing

Why Media and Publishing Companies are Turning to AI in the Battle for Viewers and Ad Revenues

Media and publishing companies are continuing to face a multitude of challenges, from battling deep-pocketed competitors to keeping up with shifting audience behaviors and combating misinformation. AI is emerging as a key enabler in helping companies to not only navigate these challenges, but to thrive.

Modern Billing Platforms: A Strategic Multiplier

As publishers continue to digitize, the ability to accelerate and diversify revenue requires a modern and agile approach to the technology that supports your business. Billing — provided by a modern billing platform — plays an active role in creating sustainable advantages for publishers by facilitating subscriber, title, access, and delivery management.

Aria’s platform provides the flexibility

“Aria’s platform provides the flexibility, configurability, and ease of connectivity we require as we commence our broad digital transformation efforts. Leaning on their deep experience in the media and publishing industry, Aria understood our challenges from the outset and is implementing a solution that will support our key strategic aspirations to simplify, grow, and adapt through enhanced subscription management.”

Customer Testimonials

“As a publishing company, we had special requirements and complexities when handling subscriptions for both print and digital media. Aria’s depth of industry knowledge and the capabilities of its AMPS suite ultimately convinced us to replace our entire billing infrastructure with Aria’s platform.”

Driving Growth and Accelerating Revenue

In just a few short years, digital readership of newspapers, books, magazines, and other forms of written content will finally eclipse traditional print. To grow revenue and remain competitive, publishers will need to digitize their business models and introduce new subscription options that appeal to and cater for the consumption wishes of a more diverse set of audiences, if they haven’t already.