Datastreams
    Solutions · News & Media

    One audience stream.
    Every media service in context.

    Process impressions, audience segments and content propensity in one stream, then serve permitted current context to advertising, editorial, analytics and subscription systems.

    For publishers, subscription teams and audience operations, together with editorial, IT and privacy owners.

    A reader interaction flowing through one audience stream to editorial, analytics, subscription and advertising services
    Business benefitOne audience stream serves every media serviceA permitted interaction can update impressions, segments, scoring, ad serving and subscription services without copying audience logic into separate SaaS tools.

    Audience & Subscriber Context

    One network. Clear agreements for each participant.

    Subscription status, newsletter choices and content interests often live in separate systems. Readers repeat their preferences while audience teams reconcile exports and exceptions. Streams can carry these changes into the services that need them under one approved processing definition.

    Reader or subscriber

    Chooses topics and channels, changes preferences and accesses subscribed content.

    Editorial team

    Defines content categories and editorial conditions for recommendations.

    Subscription and customer service

    Maintain access entitlements and resolve account or payment exceptions.

    Website, app and newsletter services

    Use the permitted context for the current interaction without each maintaining a separate interpretation of the rules.

    Processes to connect

    Bring processing to the data your services already produce.

    Keep business context, purpose, rules, destinations and expected responses in one approved definition. Personal context is included where it matters. Each accepted input is transformed for backend processing, and the result returns to the current state.

    Subscription change to access

    Apply an accepted entitlement update to connected channels and route conflicting or missing information for review.

    Reader choice to newsletter selection

    Use declared topics and current channel permissions before preparing the next delivery.

    Interaction to audience insight

    Process permitted events into useful audience measures, applying field restrictions and retention rules at the configured collection and processing points.

    Focused capability

    Audience stream services

    Process impressions, segmentation and propensity scoring as one governed operation. Serve each media system with its permitted current context.

    The full operating model, controls and example now have their own page.

    Explore audience stream services

    Example operation

    See how an agreement becomes an outcome.

    The same input, relevant context and approved rule version produce the same rule-based result. Changed facts or agreements can change the next result, with the applied version recorded.

    1. 1. trigger

      A subscriber turns off personalised newsletters while retaining a paid subscription.

    2. 2. context

      Keep subscription entitlement, newsletter permission and topic preferences as distinct facts with their effective times.

    3. 3. rule

      The newsletter operation checks the current permission before dispatch. Subscription access follows its own approved entitlement rule.

    4. 4. outcome

      Exclude the reader from the next personalised newsletter operation while preserving valid content access. A queued message must pass the configured check before sending.

    5. 5. evidence

      Record the preference event, purpose, rule version and suppressed action. Preserve only the evidence required by the agreed retention rules.

    Validate late or duplicate events, unavailable destinations and rule changes before activation. Historical evidence explains the earlier decision; a new action must meet the conditions that apply when it is executed.

    Rules in context · EU and Netherlands

    Turn applicable requirements into explicit processing conditions.

    The responsible organisation determines the applicable obligations and approves their translation into executable rules. These sources guide that work; they are not a certification of the solution.

    Purpose-specific processing

    Assess the basis for subscription fulfilment, audience measurement and marketing separately. Record a withdrawal where consent is used and reflect it in subsequent processing for that purpose.

    EDPB: lawful processing
    Tracking at collection

    Assess cookie and tracking requirements before collecting events. An approved downstream rule does not remedy information collected without the required permission.

    Dutch DPA: tracking cookies
    Platform duties depend on the service

    Assess whether a service qualifies as an online platform and which DSA duties apply, including relevant recommender and advertising transparency rules. Publishing editorial content alone does not make every platform duty applicable.

    European Commission: DSA questions and answers

    Source review: 20 September 2026. Confirm the applicable requirements for your service and jurisdiction when defining the operation.

    Business value

    Measure the work you can remove.

    Build the business case from the integrations, manual work and evidence preparation this process actually replaces. Include platform fees, implementation, validation and remaining operating costs.

    Preference reconciliation

    Reduce repeated exports and list corrections. Track staff time and preference mismatches across channels.

    Campaign and access maintenance

    Reuse approved rules instead of duplicating them in each tool. Track change effort and access-related support cases.

    Processing review

    Keep the applied purpose and rule with the outcome. Measure the work needed to explain a selected audience or suppressed message.

    Start small, then expand

    Prove the value in one bounded process.

    Start with one publication, one interaction source, one defined audience segment or content score and one ad-serving connection. Agree the impression definitions, permitted fields and acceptable context age. Test the same stream with a second output for audience reporting, including a permission change before delivery.

    Scope and responsibility boundary

    Keep editorial responsibility with the publisher. Confirm each channel's API, measurement signals and enforcement before dispatch. Your ad-serving system remains responsible for the advertising delivery it executes. Validate scoring quality and business impact; higher yield, conversion and retention are outcomes to measure.

    Define your first process

    Agree the baseline and acceptance criteria

    • Time from an accepted preference change to enforcement
    • Time from accepted event to updated segment or score at the destination
    • Duplicate impression handling and stale-context fallbacks
    • Replaced SaaS costs, integration hours and audience reconciliation work
    • Time to explain a sampled segment, score or delivery decision

    Compare a representative period before and after. Expand only after the responsible owners accept the processing behaviour, evidence and measured value.