Audience Intelligence for Media and Entertainment

Connect content platforms, ad servers, subscription systems, and social data. Build dashboards for audience engagement, content performance, and ad revenue optimization — blending data from every platform without ETL.

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How It Works

From data to dashboard in three steps

Skip the months-long ETL setup. Knowi connects directly to your infrastructure and gets you to insights in minutes.

1

Connect media platforms

Plug into your CMS, ad server, subscription platform, and analytics tools. Knowi connects to PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, BigQuery, REST APIs, and dozens more natively.

2

Unify audience and content data

Join viewership data, ad impressions, subscription events, and social engagement in a single query. Get a unified audience view across platforms.

3

Optimize and monetize

Build dashboards for editorial, ad operations, and business teams. Track content ROI, audience retention, and ad yield in real time.

Capabilities

What can you do with media analytics on Knowi?

Connect your CMS, ad servers, and streaming platforms, then analyze content, audiences, and revenue without building a data pipeline first.

Measure content performance across all platforms

Track views, engagement time, completion rates, and share rates by content type, author, and topic. Compare performance across web, app, and streaming channels in one dashboard.

Segment audiences by behavior and preferences

Group viewers by demographics, content consumption patterns, subscription tier, and engagement frequency. Build targeted content strategies and personalized advertising packages with real behavioral data.

Optimize ad revenue and track CPM by placement

Monitor CPM, fill rates, viewability, and yield across ad partners and placements. Identify high-value inventory, compare programmatic vs. direct-sold performance, and maximize revenue per impression.

Track subscriber churn and lifetime value by cohort

Monitor acquisition, churn rate, ARPU, and lifetime value across subscriber cohorts. Identify which content drives conversions, which segments are at risk, and where to focus retention efforts.

Join CMS, ad server, and social data without a warehouse

Blend content management, ad server, subscription billing, and social platform data in a single query. No ETL pipelines, no data warehouse required, connect directly and start analyzing.

Embed white-label dashboards for advertisers and partners

Give advertisers, syndication partners, and content creators their own branded performance dashboards. Row-level security ensures each partner sees only their own campaign and audience data.

Dashboard Examples

See media & entertainment analytics in action

Real dashboard patterns used by teams running on Knowi.

Content

Content Performance Dashboard

Track views, engagement, shares, and time-on-page by article, video, podcast, or series. Compare performance across categories, authors, and distribution channels.

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Audience

Audience Engagement Dashboard

Visualize audience growth, retention, session depth, and cross-platform behavior. Segment by subscriber vs. anonymous, device, geography, and content affinity.

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Revenue

Ad Revenue Dashboard

Monitor ad impressions, CPM, fill rates, and revenue by placement, format, and demand partner. Optimize yield and identify underperforming inventory.

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Why Knowi

What other tools can’t do

Most analytics tools require a warehouse. Knowi connects directly to your data and gives your team AI, anomaly detection, and cross-source analytics out of the box.

Unified audience view

CMS, ad servers, subscription platforms, and social analytics live in separate silos. Knowi joins them all so you see the complete audience picture.

Your audience doesn't live in one platform. Your analytics shouldn't either.

No data warehouse required

Connect directly to your platforms without building a warehouse. Most media teams start getting insights within days.

Skip the warehouse project. Understand your audience now.

Real-time content intelligence

Track content performance as it happens. Knowi dashboards refresh in seconds so editorial teams can react to trending stories and audience behavior in real time.

Yesterday's analytics can't inform today's editorial decisions.

Embed analytics for partners

Deliver performance dashboards to advertisers, creators, and syndication partners. White-label everything and enforce data isolation with row-level security.

Turn reporting into a product feature.

Data Connectivity

Connect to everything. Join across anything.

No warehouse required. Knowi connects directly to your operational databases, APIs, and files.

Primary Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearchBigQuerySnowflakeMySQL
Additional Databases
ClickHouseDynamoDBCassandraRedshift
APIs & Files
REST APIsGoogle AnalyticsSocial APIsAd Server APIsJSONCSV

Cross-source joins - no ETL required

Combine data from any of the above on the fly. A single dashboard widget can pull from multiple sources in the same query. No warehouse. No staging tables.

Customer Success

See how media companies use Knowi

Real media and advertising companies running analytics on Knowi today.

Music & Entertainment

From spreadsheets to strategy: How a 30-year music company got clarity

A 30-year-old music licensing company was drowning in spreadsheets and couldn't see what their catalog was really doing. Knowi replaced manual reporting with interactive dashboards, giving their team real-time visibility into licensing revenue, catalog performance, and deal analytics.

Replaced spreadsheetsRevenue analyticsCatalog trackingSelf-service
Transformed 30 years of spreadsheet-based reporting into real-time analytics.
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Digital Marketing

Transforming data management: Ampush's journey with Knowi

Ampush, a performance marketing company in San Francisco, used Knowi to transform their data management and reporting operations. They consolidated marketing analytics across channels and clients, replacing fragmented tools with unified dashboards that give their team a single source of truth.

Marketing analyticsData unificationMulti-channelReporting
Unified marketing analytics across channels and clients.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers to common questions about media & entertainment analytics on Knowi

How do I connect my CMS and ad server to an analytics dashboard?
Knowi connects natively to the databases behind major CMS platforms (WordPress, Drupal, custom CMS) and ad servers like Google Ad Manager via REST API integration. You can also connect to social platforms, streaming backends, and subscription billing systems. No middleware or ETL tool is required — Knowi queries your sources directly and blends the results in a single dashboard.
Can I track content performance across web, app, and streaming in one place?
Yes. Knowi's cross-source joins let you combine content engagement data from your website analytics, mobile app events, and streaming platform APIs in a single query. You can compare views, completion rates, and engagement time across all distribution channels without consolidating data into a warehouse first.
How do I measure multi-platform attribution for media content?
Knowi lets you join audience touchpoint data across social, search, email, and direct traffic sources in one query. You can build attribution models that track how viewers discover content on one platform and convert (subscribe, purchase, or engage) on another. This works by blending data from Google Analytics, social APIs, and your CMS without needing a separate attribution tool.
Does Knowi support real-time viewership and streaming analytics?
Yes. Knowi dashboards refresh on configurable intervals down to seconds, so you can monitor live viewership, concurrent streams, buffering rates, and engagement metrics as they happen. You can set threshold-based alerts via Slack, email, or webhook to flag drops in stream quality or spikes in viewer abandonment in real time.
How do I reduce subscriber churn with analytics?
Knowi lets you build cohort-based churn analysis dashboards that track subscriber retention by acquisition source, content consumption patterns, and engagement frequency. Built-in machine learning models can score churn risk per subscriber, and you can set automated alerts when high-value segments show declining engagement. This helps media teams intervene with targeted content or offers before subscribers cancel.
Can I embed advertiser-facing dashboards with my own branding?
Yes. Knowi supports full white-label embedding with three methods: URL embed for simple portals, AES-encrypted URL embed for secure multi-partner access, and a JavaScript SDK for full programmatic control. Row-level security ensures each advertiser or partner sees only their own campaign data. You can inject custom CSS to match your brand, and there is no Knowi branding visible to your partners.
Do editorial and sales teams need SQL to use Knowi?
No. Knowi's natural language search lets anyone type questions in plain English — like "show me top-performing articles this week by page views" — and get instant visualizations. This means editorial teams can explore content performance and ad sales teams can pull campaign reports without waiting for analysts or learning SQL.
How does Knowi compare to Tableau or Power BI for media analytics?
Tableau and Power BI require data to be extracted into a warehouse or flat file before visualization. Knowi connects directly to your live databases, APIs, and NoSQL sources — including MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and REST endpoints — and joins them in a single query without ETL. For media companies, this means you can blend CMS, ad server, and subscription data on the fly. Knowi also offers native white-label embedding and multi-tenant row-level security, which Tableau and Power BI charge significantly more for or require workarounds to achieve.
Do I need a data warehouse to analyze media and entertainment data?
No. Knowi queries your existing databases and APIs directly, then joins the results at query time. This eliminates the need to build and maintain a data warehouse for most media analytics use cases. You can blend data from your CMS database, Google Ad Manager API, subscription billing system, and social platform APIs without any intermediate storage layer. Most media teams have their first cross-source dashboard live within days.

See media analytics with your own data

Connect your content platform or send us a sample dataset. We'll build a working dashboard in your first call - not slides.