Media & Entertainment Software Development
Media businesses fail on two unglamorous problems: knowing precisely who is entitled to what, and paying rights holders correctly. Everything visible — the player, the app, the homepage — is straightforward by comparison. Entitlement and royalties are where the money is lost, and they are where most platforms are weakest.
The Challenge & The Orus Solution
We turn complex business challenges into resilient, scalable digital systems.
The problem
Entitlement gets scattered across a payment provider, a CMS and an app. A subscriber who upgrades mid-cycle, pauses, or shares a household plan exposes every inconsistency between them at once.
Rights are recorded in contracts and tracked in spreadsheets. Nobody can answer reliably which titles are licensed in which territory next month, so content is either pulled early or left up past its window.
- Entitlement disagreements between billing, CMS and the apps
- Failed payments silently becoming free access
- Rights windows tracked in spreadsheets and missed
- Royalty statements assembled by hand each quarter
- No reliable view of which content actually drives retention
Our solution
One entitlement service is the single authority on what a given user can watch or read, and every surface asks it rather than deciding locally. That removes the entire class of bugs where the app and the billing system disagree.
Rights are modelled as data — territory, window, platform, exclusivity — so availability is computed rather than remembered, and a window closing is an automatic action rather than something someone has to diarise.
- A single entitlement service every surface queries
- Rights modelled as territory, window and platform data
- Dunning flows that recover failed payments before access lapses
- Royalty calculation from consumption data, not spreadsheets
- Content analytics tied to retention rather than raw views
Software solutions we build
Tailored services and software modules designed around your exact business model, tech stack, and growth goals.
Subscription and paywall
Plans, trials, upgrades, pauses, metered and hard paywalls, with proration handled correctly.
Entitlement service
One authority on access, queried by web, mobile and TV apps so they cannot disagree.
Content management
Editorial workflow, scheduling, embargoes, versioning and multi-language publishing.
Rights and windowing
Territory, platform and window modelling, with availability computed and expiries enforced automatically.
Royalty and settlement
Consumption-based calculation per rights holder, with statements generated rather than assembled.
Video delivery integration
Transcoding pipelines, DRM and CDN delivery with adaptive bitrate.
Audience analytics
Consumption tied to retention and churn, not vanity view counts.
Advertising integration
Ad server integration, house campaigns and frequency capping for ad-supported tiers.
Security & compliance first
Content and subscriber data both carry obligations.
Why businesses choose Orus Studio
We treat entitlement as one service
Not as logic duplicated in each app, which is why most platforms have access bugs they cannot reproduce.
Rights are data, not documents
Availability is computed from territory and window, so a window closing is automatic rather than remembered.
Royalties come out of consumption
Statements generated from the same data that served the content, so they reconcile.
Built for mixed monetisation
Subscription, metered, ad-supported and hybrid models coexist without special-casing.
Who this is for
- Publishers moving from advertising to subscription revenue
- Streaming platforms handling rights across territories
- Broadcasters with digital and linear distribution
- Music and podcast platforms settling royalties per play
- Media businesses whose royalty statements take weeks to assemble
What you get
- Subscription and paywall platform
- A single entitlement service
- Rights and windowing system
- Consumption-based royalty settlement
- Audience analytics tied to retention
- Full source code and documentation
Frequently Asked Questions
Transparent answers about timelines, scope, technology stacks, and our process.
Why does entitlement need its own service?
Can you handle rights windows across territories?
Do you build the video player and transcoding?
Can we run subscription and advertising together?
Building software for media or entertainment?
Tell us where it hurts — paywall, entitlement, rights or royalties — and we will come back with a scoped estimate.