Sector · Media

Creative teams on enterprise-tier everything.

Publishers, newsrooms, and content studios run creative stacks (Adobe, DAM, headless CMS) plus the usual office SaaS. The subscriptions compound as editorial teams grow, and most of the core workflows have open source equivalents that do the job. GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, Ghost, and WordPress self-hosted power serious publications worldwide.

R 190K

Typical annual licence spend

Across 7 common media tools

R 171K

Recoverable each year

After self-hosted OSS migration

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Sector pain points we cover

From licensing to compliance to access control

The media stack, on the books

Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.

Bars show what the typical media firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.

Typical Media stack

7 tools · R 190K/yr in licences

● Migrate to OSS · save 90%
Proprietary
Hosted OSS

Replace

Bynder

Media / DAM · R 66K per year

With

ResourceSpace

Self-hosted on your infra

Annual savings

R 59K

After hosting · approx 90% reduction

See migration brief →

Current annual spend

R 190K

Estimated OSS hosting

R 19K

Annual savings

R 171K

Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving

Where the media bleed starts

Three things we hear on every media discovery call.

01

Adobe Creative Cloud per-seat across the team

Editorial, design, video, social — every role needs a licence. A team of 10 on the full suite is a six-figure annual bill.

02

DAM and asset management subscriptions

Digital asset management platforms priced per asset or per user. Self-hosted alternatives have no ceiling.

03

CMS lock-in and migration cost

Years of content trapped in proprietary CMS schemas. Self-hosted WordPress or Ghost uses open formats and exports cleanly.

How we handle the media edges

The sector-specific things we get right.

01 · Concern

POPIA for reader and subscriber data

Newsletters, paywalls, comment systems. Every subscription is personal information under POPIA.

02 · Concern

ECTA for digital contracts and ads

Advertising terms, syndication deals, creator contracts. We configure digital contract workflows that meet ECTA.

03 · Concern

Copyright and licence tracking

Stock imagery, music licences, syndication rights. Self-hosted DAM makes rights management visible and auditable.

What we bring to a media engagement

The services your sector usually starts with.

See your numbers, not the industry average. 30-minute audit, on us.

Send us the licence list. We'll run it against the open-source map and quote a migration window for your media stack. The audit is on us.