[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":186},["ShallowReactive",2],{"industry-multi-property-media-groups":3},{"id":4,"alternativeSection":5,"capabilitiesSection":22,"extension":52,"faqSection":53,"finalCta":75,"hero":81,"meta":93,"order":94,"painSection":95,"relatedSection":115,"seo":134,"showcases":143,"slug":166,"stem":167,"workflowSection":168,"__hash__":185},"industries\u002Fmarketing\u002Findustries\u002Fmulti-property-media-groups.yml",{"eyebrow":6,"title":7,"subtitle":8,"cards":9},"CONSOLIDATING AFTER GROWTH","Inherited a stack of mismatched tools? You're not alone.","Most groups don't choose their software all at once - they inherit it title by title, deal by deal. Here's how consolidation actually goes.",[10,13,16,19],{"title":11,"description":12},"You acquired the software with the paper","Every property came with whatever it was already running. Consolidating onto one platform means you negotiate one contract, train one workflow, and stop paying for overlap - instead of maintaining a different system for each title.",{"title":14,"description":15},"You've outgrown the spreadsheet that holds it together","When group reporting depends on someone manually merging exports each month, you've outgrown the setup. One database means roll-up reporting is a query, not a project, and the numbers match across every property.",{"title":17,"description":18},"You're tired of one vendor per property per function","Separate billing, classifieds, proofing, and payment vendors at each title add up fast - more invoices, more logins, more support lines. Consolidating onto AccountScout means one vendor, one source of truth, and a team that answers the phone.",{"title":20,"description":21},"You want each title to keep its identity","Standardizing the back office shouldn't mean every paper looks the same to its market. Each property keeps its own rates, sections, and ad types while the group gets consistent billing, reporting, and workflow underneath.",{"eyebrow":23,"title":24,"subtitle":25,"columns":26,"items":27},"ONE PLATFORM, EVERY TITLE","How AccountScout runs a multi-property group.","AccountScout was built for the way publishing operations actually work - so a group can standardize across properties without flattening what makes each title different.",3,[28,32,36,40,44,48],{"icon":29,"title":30,"description":31},"Layers","Every publication on one system","Run all your titles in a single AccountScout database. Each property keeps its own rate cards, schedules, and ad types, while the group sees everything in one place.",{"icon":33,"title":34,"description":35},"Users","One advertiser record across titles","An advertiser who runs in three of your papers is one account, not three. Reps see the full relationship, and billing can consolidate or split by property as you need.",{"icon":37,"title":38,"description":39},"ChartNoAxesColumnIncreasing","Group-wide reporting without the rebuild","300+ built-in reports cover sales, production, and A\u002FR, and you can roll numbers up across the whole group or drill into a single title without exporting to a spreadsheet.",{"icon":41,"title":42,"description":43},"BadgeDollarSign","Billing and collections in one workflow","Statements, recurring billing, credit holds, and collections run the same way for every property, so month-end close stops depending on who does it.",{"icon":45,"title":46,"description":47},"Smartphone","Sales coverage across properties","SalesScout gives reps account history, pipeline, quotes, and activity on the web and mobile - whether they sell one title or carry several.",{"icon":49,"title":50,"description":51},"Unplug","Fewer outside vendors","Classified order entry, proof approval, and advertiser payments are native modules, so you can retire the patchwork of third-party tools each property brought with it.","yml",{"eyebrow":54,"title":55,"items":56},"COMMON QUESTIONS","Multi-property publishing software questions",[57,60,63,66,69,72],{"question":58,"answer":59},"What software do newspapers use to manage advertising?","Most newspapers run their advertising on a publishing operations platform that combines CRM, ad order entry, production handoff, and billing in one system. AccountScout by Fake Brains does exactly this - one record for the advertiser, one place to book retail, classified, digital, and insert orders, and a clean handoff into production and billing. For a media group, the advantage is that every title runs the same way in the same database.",{"question":61,"answer":62},"How do small newspapers and media groups handle ad billing and collections?","They run statements, recurring billing, and collections out of the same system that holds the orders, so the bill always matches what was booked. AccountScout handles statements, recurring billing, credit holds, and collections for every property in one workflow, and built-in A\u002FR reporting shows where the group stands without rebuilding it in a spreadsheet each month.",{"question":64,"answer":65},"How do you consolidate newspaper software after acquiring more titles?","You move each property onto a single platform - keeping its own rate cards, schedules, and ad types - so the group shares one database instead of one system per title. With AccountScout, cross-title advertisers become single records, billing runs one consistent way, and group reporting rolls up automatically. We typically bring titles over property by property so nothing stops mid-cycle.",{"question":67,"answer":68},"What software lets advertisers pay invoices and approve proofs online?","An advertiser self-service portal handles both. The Advertiser Portal lets advertisers view and pay invoices online and approve ad proofs without calling the office, and because it writes back to AccountScout, those payments and approvals land directly on the order - across every title in the group.",{"question":70,"answer":71},"How can a newspaper accept classified ads online?","With an online classified order-entry portal that connects to your ad system. ClassifiedScout lets the public place and pay for classified ads online, and the order flows straight into AccountScout for production and billing - so a media group can offer online classifieds across all its titles without bolting on a separate vendor for each one.",{"question":73,"answer":74},"What should a media group look for when choosing newspaper software?","Look for one platform that runs every title in a single database, keeps each property's own rates and ad types, rolls reporting up to the group, and replaces the outside vendors each paper brought with it. You should also weigh the pricing model - AccountScout has no per-seat fees, which matters when reps and CSRs work across multiple properties.",{"headline":76,"body":77,"ctaLabel":78,"ctaHref":79,"phone":80},"See your whole group running on one platform.","Book a demo and we'll show how AccountScout consolidates ad sales, production, billing, and payments across every title - and how groups move over property by property.","Book a Demo","\u002Fcontact","303-791-3301",{"eyebrow":82,"headline":83,"subheadline":84,"primaryCta":85,"secondaryCta":86,"image":89,"imageAlt":90,"imageWidth":91,"imageHeight":92},"FOR MULTI-PROPERTY MEDIA GROUPS","One publishing operations platform for every title you run.","AccountScout by Fake Brains gives multi-property media groups a single system for ad sales, order entry, production, billing, and collections across every publication - so you stop reconciling five tools and start running one operation.",{"label":78,"href":79},{"label":87,"href":88},"Explore AccountScout","\u002Fproducts\u002Faccountscout","\u002Fimages\u002Fproducts\u002Faccountscout-sales-dashboard.png","The AccountScout Sales Dashboard: a year view pacing at 87% of goal, with booked revenue charted month by month against goal and target-to-date lines, beside a rail breaking out print, classified, and digital revenue, open price quotes, expiring orders, dormant advertisers, and activity, email, and deal counts.",1448,1086,{},4,{"title":96,"subtitle":97,"items":98},"Running 5 to 50 publications shouldn't mean running 5 to 50 systems.","Media groups grow by acquisition, and every acquisition tends to bring its own software, its own billing process, and its own version of the truth.",[99,102,105,107,110,112],{"icon":100,"text":101},"Building2","Each property arrived with its own ad system, its own billing setup, and its own way of booking orders - and nothing reconciles cleanly at the group level.",{"icon":103,"text":104},"FileSpreadsheet","Group-wide revenue and A\u002FR live in spreadsheets that someone rebuilds by hand every month from exports that never quite line up.",{"icon":33,"text":106},"A rep who covers more than one title has to log into more than one system, and an advertiser who runs across titles gets more than one invoice.",{"icon":108,"text":109},"Clock","Closing the books across all properties takes too long because every paper hands off numbers in a different format on a different timeline.",{"icon":49,"text":111},"Standalone classified portals, proofing tools, and payment vendors multiply with every property, so you pay more vendors and chase more support lines.",{"icon":113,"text":114},"SearchX","Without one source of truth, you can't compare titles, spot the underperformers, or see which advertisers run across the whole group.",{"title":116,"subtitle":117,"links":118},"The modules that run a multi-property group","Start with the platform, then add the modules that retire your outside vendors title by title.",[119,122,126,130],{"title":120,"description":121,"href":88},"AccountScout","The publishing operations platform - CRM, order entry, production, billing, and reporting for every title in one database.",{"title":123,"description":124,"href":125},"SalesScout","Web and mobile CRM for reps who sell across one or several of your publications.","\u002Fproducts\u002Fsalescout",{"title":127,"description":128,"href":129},"ClassifiedScout","Online classified ordering and presentment so every title can take classifieds on the web.","\u002Fproducts\u002Fclassifiedscout",{"title":131,"description":132,"href":133},"Billing & Collections","Statements, recurring billing, credit holds, and collections run one consistent way across the group.","\u002Fproducts\u002Faccountscout\u002Fbilling",{"title":135,"description":136,"keyFacts":137},"Newspaper Business Management Software | Fake Brains","Run every title on one platform. AccountScout by Fake Brains consolidates newspaper software across a multi-property media group - ad sales, production, billing, and payments in a single system.",[138,139,140,141,142],"Built for newspaper and media publishing since 1991","100% built in-house in Colorado","No per-seat fees — accounts for your whole staff","Delivered from the Fake Brains cloud — no server to maintain","300+ built-in reports",[144,156],{"eyebrow":145,"title":146,"description":147,"bullets":148,"image":152,"imageAlt":153,"imageWidth":154,"imageHeight":155},"REPS ACROSS TITLES","One login, however many mastheads they carry.","A rep covering four titles should not log into four systems to find out how they are pacing. The territory belongs to the rep, not to the property.",[149,150,151],"Goals, pipeline and follow-ups across every title the rep sells","Works on a phone between calls, not only at the desk","What a rep books counts as group revenue the moment it is booked","\u002Fimages\u002Fproducts\u002Fsalescout-devices.png","SalesScout on a laptop, tablet, and phone: the rep dashboard with color-coded print advertising goals pacing for the month and the year, sales metrics, proof counts, and today's follow-ups, beside the Deal Maker pipeline moving deals from new inquiry through verbal commitment to signed.",2400,1800,{"eyebrow":157,"title":158,"description":159,"bullets":160,"image":164,"imageAlt":165,"imageWidth":154,"imageHeight":155},"ONE ADVERTISER, ONE BILL","An advertiser running in four titles gets one statement.","Group advertisers are the ones worth keeping, and they are the ones most likely to receive four invoices from four systems. One account record means one balance and one place to settle it.",[161,162,163],"One balance across every title the advertiser runs in","Card and ACH payments post to the account that issued the invoice","Proof approvals for every title arrive in the same login","\u002Fimages\u002Fproducts\u002Fadvertiser-portal-devices.png","The Advertiser Portal on a desktop monitor and two phones: an account overview flagging a past-due balance with quick actions for invoices, payments, and proofs, beside a card payment screen and a proof approval screen.","multi-property-media-groups","marketing\u002Findustries\u002Fmulti-property-media-groups",{"eyebrow":169,"title":170,"subtitle":171,"steps":172},"HOW GROUPS MOVE OVER","Consolidation that respects what each title already does.","We've moved media groups onto AccountScout property by property without stopping the presses.",[173,176,179,182],{"title":174,"description":175},"Map the group","We look at every property's ad types, rate cards, billing process, and the vendors each one is running today.",{"title":177,"description":178},"Bring titles onto one platform","Each publication moves onto AccountScout with its own rates and schedules intact, inside one shared database.",{"title":180,"description":181},"Consolidate advertisers and billing","Cross-title advertisers become single records, and statements, recurring billing, and collections run one consistent way.",{"title":183,"description":184},"Roll reporting up to the group","Sales, production, and A\u002FR report at the title level and roll up across the group - no more month-end spreadsheet merge.","P023FOazVBSLyWqgonEezc7PBZKUjvWePm-2AsK8Oa0",1791331521764]