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Our mission for the media industry

Media is in the midst of a profound transformation. Technology, business models, audience expectations, and production processes are evolving faster than ever. For more than 26 years, jambit Media has helped leading media organizations not only navigate this change, but lead it.

As your transformation partner, we combine engineering excellence with deep industry expertise to deliver measurable, lasting value, from strategy and process design to editorial workflows, their technical implementation, and reliable operations. End-to-end. From one trusted partner. Our commitment: enabling media companies to build their digital future with clarity, speed, and innovation.

What media companies truly need today

Despite a challenging environment, the media industry faces major opportunities. Technology is the enabler of transformation and the foundation for long-term resilience. That includes reducing costs across content production and distribution, increasing digital revenues, and building the capability to deliver new products and features in short innovation cycles. Technology is not an end in itself. It is the lever for stronger business performance.

The critical point: real business impact only happens when technology is consistently aligned with the audience. Relevance drives usage, loyalty, and conversion, and therefore directly impacts revenue and efficiency.

Audience focus does not start with “journalism for everyone”, but with a clear understanding of the people you publish for: What situation are your readers in right now? What questions do they have? What kind of content truly helps them today? Relevance comes from proximity to the audience, from context and empathy. Genuine engagement grows when users are listened to consistently.

Dmitry Shishkin, Strategic Editorial Advisor and advocate of User Needs, puts it succinctly: “What would happen to your users’ lives if your media brand simply disappeared tomorrow?”

From our experience, the biggest levers for impact are:

Audience First

Audiences are not merely defined, they are the focal point of every activity. Content starts with user needs, not topics. We identify target segments precisely, build signals, segments, and journeys, and deliver highly relevant, personalized content. This strengthens loyalty, reduces churn, increases subscription usage, and creates direct business impact.

Empower journalism

Use AI and automation where they take over repetitive tasks, freeing up capacity for journalistic excellence.

Grow digital revenue

Build scalable monetization models such as paid content, subscriptions, and paywalls that convert users reliably, and enable future options such as dynamic pricing, for example pay per depth and pay by relevance.

Protect independence

Design modular, vendor-neutral architectures that keep you flexible and prevent lock-in.

Reduce operating costs

Modernize legacy systems, consolidate platform landscapes, and reduce technical debt to sustainably lower platform and operational costs.

Deliver faster

Set up processes, structures, and platforms so time-to-market for new products and features decreases measurably.

To achieve this, media companies need partners who connect technical, organizational, and commercial perspectives and provide pragmatic paths through complexity, from strategy to implementation.

  • Our mission: to help media companies shape their digital future with clarity, speed and innovative strength.

    Robert Kowalski, Head of Division Media

Our answer: jambit Media

jambit Media is a core business unit within jambit. We have grown through long-term partnerships with leading media brands and a strong track record of successful projects, often through referrals.

What sets us apart

Audience First, strategically and operationally

We translate user needs into editorial logic, data models, and product decisions, from User Needs frameworks to personalization and experimentation. The result is measurable impact on relevance, loyalty, churn, and subscription engagement.

Deep media domain expertise

Editorial workflows, publishing, CMS ecosystems, and end-to-end media processes.

AI that delivers outcomes

From automating repetitive tasks to integrating AI strategically across the full content value chain, freeing up time for journalistic quality.

Growing digital revenue

Paid content, subscriptions, and paywalls, built to scale cleanly and convert strongly, with a clear path to dynamic pricing models such as pay per depth and pay by relevance.

Broad technology excellence, product-neutral

We advise and build vendor-independently, aligned to your strategy and business case, without lock-in.

Reducing operating costs

Modernizing legacy systems, consolidating platform landscapes, and reducing technical debt to sustainably lower platform and operational cost.

Shipping faster

We shorten time-to-market through clear product structures, efficient delivery, and architectures designed for change.

Cloud, scale, security, compliance

We take end-to-end technical accountability for high-traffic systems at major media organizations and run them reliably, securely, resiliently, and compliantly.

End-to-end capability

From architecture and engineering to consulting, organizational design, and enabling your teams.

A partnership of equals

Transparent, dependable, with clear accountability for outcomes.

We align strategy, domain expertise, technology, and business perspective to create measurable results, across efficiency, digital revenue, speed, and cost.

Our service portfolio for the media industry

Audience First, growing digital revenue, reducing operating costs, and shortening time-to-market. To deliver on these goals, we structure our portfolio into clear building blocks that create strategic impact and deliver operational results.

Modernization & migration

Move away from legacy and toward modular, scalable publishing platforms without unnecessary dependencies.

  • System modernization: Future-proof editorial, production, and publishing capabilities.
  • CMS and DAM migrations: For example, CoreMedia or Polopoly to Livingdocs or Arc.
  • Consolidation: Reduce complexity and technical debt.
  • Headless architectures: Modern, flexible, and cross-channel by design.
  • Cutover without downtime: Low-risk transitions without blocking the newsroom.
AI & Automation

From idea to productive use, scalable, secure and suitable for editorial work.

  • Editorial AI assistants: Reduce day-to-day workload and free up time for quality.
  • Workflow automation: Across newsroom, product, and IT.
  • AI-driven personalization: Increase relevance, strengthen loyalty, reduce churn.
  • AI transformation consulting: Use cases, governance, operating model.
  • Industrialization and MLOps: From prototyping to reliable production operations.
Paid content & monetization

Increase digital revenue, data-driven, user-centric, and scalable.

  • Paywall, subscriptions, membership: Optimize conversion, retention, and ARPU.
  • Pricing and offer experiments: Test fast, measure cleanly, scale what works.
  • Monetization platforms: Integration of solutions such as Piano or Plenigo.
  • New revenue streams: Newsletters, audio, video, community.
App & Web

Fast, personalized experiences on every device, high-performing and accessible.

  • Web and app platforms: Modern, stable, scalable.
  • UX and personalization: Increase relevance and deepen engagement.
  • Redesign and relaunch: Evolve established brands without losing identity.
  • Integrations: Web, app, audio, video, and third-party platforms.
Data & Recommendations

Data work starts with the question of which user need we want to serve, not with the technology.

  • Customer data platforms: User understanding and activation from one place.
  • Recommendation systems: For content and offers, context- and audience-based.
  • Consent and privacy: Clean, auditable integration of CMP/CEP.
  • Data pipelines and event design: The foundation for better decisions and experimentation.
Organization & Change

Technology only creates impact when processes, roles, and collaboration are aligned.

  • Newsroom and digital processes: More efficient, cross-media, less friction.
  • Building bridges: A shared language across editorial, product, and IT.
  • Discovery and roadmaps: Clear focus and prioritized impact.
  • Pragmatic agile ways of working: Designed for the realities of a media organization.
  • Change support: Secure adoption and anchor rollouts sustainably.
Operations & Infrastructure

Cloud, cost, and security optimized for media, even under peak traffic.

  • Cloud migration and operations: Hyperscalers and EU cloud, delivered production-ready.
  • Scaling and resilience: Built for high load, short peaks, and large audiences.
  • FinOps and cost optimization: Make operating costs transparent, controllable, and lower.
  • Security and compliance: Protection, governance, and auditability.
  • SLAs up to 24/7: Reliable operations when it truly matters.

Collaboration models that fit your needs

End-to-end projects

From vision and business case to delivery and live operations.

Long-term partnerships

Continuous evolution and reliable operations under high traffic, at scale, with 24/7 SLAs.

Team extension

Experienced experts to strengthen your teams quickly and effectively.

AI sprints and use-case workshops

Identify, prioritize, prototype, and scale use cases into market-ready solutions.

CMS migration packages and architecture assessments

Target state, roadmap, and low-risk migration, vendor-neutral and without unnecessary lock-ins.

Organization and process consulting

Build bridges between editorial, product, and IT to accelerate time-to-market.

Shaping your media future together.
Get in touch now.

If you have any questions, Robert Kowalski, Head of Division Media, and his team will be happy to help. Simply leave him a message via the contact form. You are also welcome to contact us on +49 160 9191 7331.

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Robert Kowalski jambit Head of Business Division Media

Robert Kowalski

Head of Division Media

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