Automate Commissions Built for Ad Sales, Sponsorships and Live Events
From spot-level broadcast deals to event-timed hospitality packages, media and entertainment compensation doesn't fit a standard quota template. Everstage gives you a clear picture on how commission logic would work with pay-on-collection, agency splits, chargebacks and discretionary pots without writing a line of code while giving sellers real-time visibility into their earnings.
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Manual spreadsheets can't keep up with how M&E pays its sellers
Ad, sponsorship and experiential revenue don't move through a single, tidy pipeline. They move through agencies and direct deals, collections and chargebacks, and payment installments. As linear ad budgets shift to digital and CTV, and premium live experiences become the highest-margin line of business, sellers are working with more complex plans than ever. The spreadsheets, homegrown scripts, and one-engineer systems tracking them are running out of road.
Linear-to-Digital Revenue Shift
Local TV ad revenue is holding steady while national spot declines — CTV/OTT is the growth engine. Every seller now carries broadcast, digital and CTV budgets with separate attainment gates and net-down rules that a per-station spreadsheet can't reliably hold together.
*BIA Advisory Services
The Premium Live Experiences Boom
Sports sponsorship and hospitality are growing at roughly 8-9% a year, and mega-events like FIFA 2026 and LA 2028 spin up entirely new comp plans from zero. Suite, package and ticket-rate differences, collection thresholds and event-month deferral break manual tracking fast.
*Industry market data, 2025
Digital Advertising's Breakneck Growth
Digital and internet advertising accelerated roughly 12% in 2025 to nearly $755 billion globally — and network and CTV ad sales now run on multi-component incentive plans that combine formulaic attainment with discretionary, leader-distributed pools. Standard HRIS and ERP tools can calculate one or the other. They can't add them together.
*PwC
Sales commission software built for how media and entertainment actually pays
Integrate Everstage across every revenue system
Connect your data from all sources like WideOrbit, Salesforce, box office and ticketing platforms, and Snowflake to pull revenue, collections and event data automatically. Calculate commissions on net or gross, route approvals, and stop reconciling parallel spreadsheets every month-end.
Model simple and complex plans with an Intuitive Plan Builder
Build agency-vs-direct splits, net-vs-gross rules, new-business accelerators, draws and guarantees without any engineering help. Configure your data sources once and test and build multiple plans on the go by yourself effortlessly.
Unlock insight with BI-powered dashboards and reporting
Give Ops and Finance a live view across stations, properties or regions including attainment, chargeback exposure, deferred and earned-but-unpaid commission, collection status without having to dice through 20-30 separate spreadsheets. Make plan adjustments backed by data instead of guesswork.
Motivate sellers with Crystal commission forecasting
Let sellers see real-time earnings projections and simulate a deal before they close it, including how a suite upgrade, an agency split, or a collection milestone impacts their payout. Crystal gives reps a reason to push harder on deals that matter most toyour company.
Implementation by our in-house professional services team
Our dedicated team partners with you through every step from mapping your revenue system of record, modeling your actual station or property plans, running a parallel cycle alongside your existing process, and training admins and sellers before go-live. All handled in-house by an experienced team of revenue experts.
Comprehensive security and compliance assured
“We are in an industry that is constantly changing and with Everstage we are able to make the changes on the fly with very minimal effort and get real-time commission calculations."
"Partnering with Everstage has been amazing! Their focus on providing a complete tool that meets our requirements of end-to-end visibility and ownership of the entire commissions process has been outstanding."
"Everstage is a game changer!
Using Everstage is 1000 times easier than our previous vendor."
Designed to handle every M&E plan, KPI and payee type
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