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title: "Churnkey for News & Media — Subscriber Retention Automation"
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  - /feature/cancel-flows.html.md
  - /feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md
  - /feature/reactivations.html.md
  - /feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md
  - /use-case/streaming/index.html.md
  - /use-case/nonprofit/index.html.md
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# Keep More of Your Subscribers with Churnkey Retention Automation

## Overview

Churnkey is a purpose-built retention automation solution for news and media publications that retains more subscribers. It plugs into the billing system behind your publication and handles the full retention lifecycle: saving subscribers at the cancel button, recovering failed subscription payments, learning why readers leave, and winning back the ones who do.

News and media companies excel at driving growth and expanding their subscriber base. But subscriber churn is an unavoidable challenge that often accompanies that growth. So where should you begin?

Your development and engagement teams should concentrate on what they do best: publishing compelling stories and engaging with your audience. Let Churnkey take the reins on your subscriber retention efforts and reduce churn in a comprehensive way that integrates with your subscription management systems. Churnkey is built to be everything an audience-obsessed team needs to improve subscription retention, automatically.

## Key Results for Media Customers

Churnkey's typical media customer:

- **54%** lower subscriber cancellations
- **Up to 89%** of failed membership payments recovered
- **Up to 34%** of subscriptions reactivated
- **14%** boost in subscription revenue

## Core Capabilities

### Deploy Automated Subscriber Retention Flows That Save

- Customize and automate your subscriber retention flows
- Recover up to 60% of failed subscription payments at scale from self-serve subscribers
- Personalize retention flows based on any subscriber criteria: subscription frequency, content type, subscriber engagement, and more

### Transform Subscriber Cancellation Reasons into Growth Opportunities

- Automatically capture subscriber cancellation reasons
- Churnkey's Feedback AI identifies cancellation trends and quantifies how much subscription revenue is affected
- Identify, aggregate, and highlight subscriber churn trends that you might be overlooking

### Understand Where Your Newsroom Is Falling Short

- Share feedback trends with your newsroom so you can adapt nimbly
- Spot cancellation trends and prioritize them by their associated subscriber revenue
- Identify, aggregate, and surface subscriber churn trends that you may be missing

### Win Back Cancelled Subscribers with Effortless Reactivation Campaigns

- Use subscriber feedback data to automate and simplify re-engagement
- Personalize reactivation campaigns with subscriber data to reinforce how you've listened to feedback
- Incentivize cancelled subscribers to resume their subscriptions with one-click offer redemptions

## How the Products Fit a Publication

- **[Cancel Flows](/feature/cancel-flows.html.md)** — Intercept the cancel button with a personalized flow: an exit survey, then the offer most likely to keep the reader (a discount, a pause, a plan change). Flows can branch on subscription frequency, content type, and engagement.
- **[Payment Recovery](/feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md)** — Recover failed subscription payments automatically with Precision Retries and dunning campaigns, so readers with an expired or declined card don't lapse by accident.
- **[Feedback AI](/feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md)** — Turn exit-survey responses into ranked cancellation themes tied to subscriber revenue, which you can share with the newsroom.
- **[Reactivations](/feature/reactivations.html.md)** — Re-engage cancelled subscribers with personalized win-back campaigns and one-click offer redemptions.

## Integrations

Churnkey integrates with a number of payment processors and the tools your business uses every day. Churnkey can also provision private APIs exclusively for your business if you don't see the integration you need.

Billing systems highlighted for media publications:

- [Stripe](/integrations/stripe/index.html.md)
- [Chargebee](/integrations/chargebee/index.html.md)
- [Paddle](/integrations/paddle/index.html.md)
- And more, including [Braintree](/integrations/braintree/index.html.md), [Recurly](/integrations/recurly/index.html.md), and [Maxio](/integrations/maxio/index.html.md)

## Customer Testimonial

> "Because of Churnkey, our marketing team was able to design the best exit funnel that increases LTV, reduced churn, and gives us the right insights to reactivate users."
> — Austin Distel, CMO of Jasper

## Getting Started

- Start for free
- Pricing tailored for you
- ROI guaranteed

Book a demo for a walkthrough, or start a trial from the [pricing page](https://churnkey.co/pricing).

## FAQ

### What does Churnkey do for news and media publications?

Churnkey automates subscriber retention. It runs personalized retention flows when readers try to cancel, recovers failed subscription payments, captures and analyzes cancellation reasons with Feedback AI, and runs reactivation campaigns to win back cancelled subscribers.

### Can retention flows be personalized for different subscribers?

Yes. Retention flows can be personalized on any subscriber criteria, including subscription frequency, content type, and subscriber engagement.

### How does Churnkey help the newsroom?

Feedback AI aggregates cancellation reasons, surfaces trends you may be missing, and ranks them by associated subscriber revenue. You can share those trends with the newsroom so it can adapt.

### Which billing systems does Churnkey support for publishers?

Churnkey integrates with Stripe, Chargebee, Paddle, and more, and can provision private APIs for your business.

## Related

- [Cancel Flows](/feature/cancel-flows.html.md) — Personalized retention experiences at the cancel button
- [Payment Recovery](/feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md) — Recover failed subscription payments
- [Reactivations](/feature/reactivations.html.md) — Win-back campaigns for cancelled subscribers
- [Feedback AI](/feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md) — AI-powered cancellation feedback analysis
- [Streaming Use Case](/use-case/streaming/index.html.md) — Retention for streaming and content subscriptions
- [Nonprofit Use Case](/use-case/nonprofit/index.html.md) — Retention for recurring donations
- [PLG SaaS Use Case](/use-case/plg-saas/index.html.md) — Retention for product-led growth