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Big news – we’ve just acquired Bondi, the digital magazine archive platform!

We’re super excited to announce that we have today acquired Bondi Digital, the digital archive platform behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, CREEM, Macleans and many more.

4th July 2022

July 4th, 2022, New York

We’re super excited to announce that we have today acquired Bondi Digital, the digital archive platform behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, CREEM, Macleans and many more.

The acquisition enables Pugpig to extend their offering to include beautifully curated, fully searchable digital archives that are perfect for researchers, students, journalists, historians and lovers of some of the world’s favourite magazine brands.

Digital archives give publishers an incredible opportunity to better exploit the wealth of untapped historical content and imagery that they have at their disposal. And existing Bondi customers will be able to take advantage of the power of Pugpig Bolt mobile apps to further increase engagement and help drive up their subscriber revenue.

The Bondi support team will join Team Pugpig in our NYC office, as we continue to expand our footprint across the USA.

Jonny Kaldor, co-founder and CEO of Pugpig said, “We’re so excited to have Bondi become part of Pugpig – not only does the deal grow our business significantly in the USA, it also adds an extremely cool capability to the Pugpig platform. Bondi digital archives look fantastic and offer a truly unique way for readers to browse through highly curated collections of magazines. I can’t wait to share the new platform with our existing customers and see how it can further deepen their relationships with their readers. Many thanks to Murat and the Bondi team for all your help in managing a super smooth transition.”

Murat Aktar, co-founder of Bondi Digital said, “It’s been almost seventeen years since our first archive project, The Complete New Yorker box set. During that time we have had a seat at the table with some of the brightest minds in publishing, developing tools and strategies to bring the printed history of these iconic magazines online. Now by integrating Bondi’s platform with Pugpig’s wide reach from apps and websites, the opportunities for engaging readers with archive content are fantastic. Pugpig has great energy and a great culture and I’m beyond thrilled to watch them expand the “state of the art” of what can be done with magazine archives.”