Case Study: Starz achieves faster releases and significant cost savings with Jira Software

Starz Drives Efficiency And Collaboration Across Teams With Atlassian

Starz Entertainment, a Denver-based media company behind hits like Spartacus and The White Queen, needed a way for its engineering and business teams to collaborate and reliably deliver content to TV, mobile, and web platforms. Large, cross-functional projects such as Magnetar — which prepares and distributes content across all providers and platforms — demanded tighter alignment between development, QA, product, marketing, and operations to meet an anytime, anywhere audience.

Starz migrated its application lifecycle management to Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Fisheye, Crucible) and added tools like Zephyr, Balsamiq, Gliffy, and Tempo to centralize tracking, builds, reviews, documentation, testing, and time management. The consolidated toolchain drove immediate cost savings (about $100k in the first year and over $500k after adopting Tempo), sped delivery (major Magnetar releases now every three weeks vs. three months), and boosted team efficiency and cross‑team collaboration.

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Mike Waldron

Q/A Manager