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title: "Churnkey for Streaming — Keep Viewers Subscribed Between Shows"
description: "Churnkey is retention automation for streaming subscriptions. Reduce content gap churn, recover payments, and reactivate viewers."
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  - /feature/subscription-pauses.html.md
  - /feature/cancel-flows.html.md
  - /feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md
  - /feature/reactivations.html.md
  - /feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md
  - /use-case/media/index.html.md
last_updated: "2026-09-11"
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# Keep Viewers Subscribed Between Their Favorite Shows

## Overview

Churnkey is a purpose-built retention automation platform for streaming and content subscription businesses. Integrate Churnkey with your billing system and reduce the content-gap churn that plagues every platform.

Streaming platforms live and die by subscriber retention. But content gaps between releases, "subscribe and binge" behavior, and price sensitivity create churn patterns that are hard to break with content alone.

Your content and product teams should focus on creating great experiences. Let Churnkey automate your retention efforts: offering pauses during content gaps, recovering failed payments at scale, and winning back subscribers when new content drops. Churnkey is built to be everything a content-obsessed team needs to improve subscriber retention, automatically.

## Key Results for Streaming Customers

Churnkey's typical streaming customer:

- **54%** lower subscriber cancellations
- **Up to 89%** of failed subscription payments recovered
- **Up to 34%** of subscriptions reactivated
- **28%** increase in subscriber LTV
- **14%** boost in subscription revenue

## Core Capabilities

### Offer a Pause Instead of a Goodbye

- Surface Subscription Pauses during content gaps instead of losing subscribers entirely
- Personalize retention offers by viewing habits, subscription age, and plan type
- Convert monthly subscribers to annual plans with targeted offers at the cancellation moment

### Recover Failed Payments at Streaming Scale

- Recover failed subscription payments automatically with intelligent retry logic
- Branded recovery experiences that match the look and feel of your platform
- Minimize subscriber disruption during billing issues to protect engagement

### Win Back Subscribers When New Content Drops

- Trigger reactivation campaigns timed to new content releases and season launches
- Personalize win-back emails with viewing history and content preferences
- Make it effortless to resubscribe with one-click offer redemptions

### Know Whether Churn Is About Content, Pricing, or Competition

- Capture the real reasons subscribers cancel: content, cost, or competitive platforms
- Churnkey's Feedback AI quantifies the revenue impact of content gaps versus price sensitivity
- Inform your content strategy and pricing decisions with subscriber-level churn data

## How the Products Fit a Streaming Platform

- **[Subscription Pauses](/feature/subscription-pauses.html.md)** — Give viewers who finished a season a pause in place of a cancellation, so they return when the next release lands rather than re-subscribing from scratch.
- **[Cancel Flows](/feature/cancel-flows.html.md)** — Personalize the cancellation moment by viewing habits, subscription age, and plan type, including offers that move monthly subscribers to annual plans.
- **[Payment Recovery](/feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md)** — Recover failed subscription payments with Precision Retries and branded dunning that matches your platform.
- **[Reactivations](/feature/reactivations.html.md)** — Time win-back campaigns to new content releases and season launches, personalized with viewing history.
- **[Feedback AI](/feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md)** — Separate content-gap churn from price sensitivity and competitive switching, and quantify the revenue behind each.

## 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 streaming platforms:

- [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 is content-gap churn?

Content-gap churn happens when subscribers cancel between releases, often after binging a new season. Churnkey reduces it by offering pauses in place of cancellations and by timing win-back campaigns to new content drops.

### Can Churnkey move streaming subscribers to annual plans?

Yes. Cancel Flows can present targeted offers at the cancellation moment that convert monthly subscribers to annual plans.

### How does Churnkey tell content churn apart from pricing churn?

Churnkey captures the reasons subscribers cancel, and Feedback AI quantifies the revenue impact of content gaps versus price sensitivity and competitive platforms.

## Related

- [Subscription Pauses](/feature/subscription-pauses.html.md) — Offer pauses during content gaps
- [Cancel Flows](/feature/cancel-flows.html.md) — Personalized retention experiences
- [Payment Recovery](/feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md) — Recover failed subscription payments
- [Reactivations](/feature/reactivations.html.md) — Win-back campaigns timed to new content
- [Feedback AI](/feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md) — AI-powered cancellation analysis
- [Media Use Case](/use-case/media/index.html.md) — Retention for news and media
- [Consumer Apps Use Case](/use-case/consumer-apps/index.html.md) — Retention for consumer subscriptions