Case Studies | Euromoney (BCA Research)
Euromoney’s BCA Research app is a great example of the incredible range of customisation possible on the Bolt platform. From highly curated dynamic timelines to optimising their research reports for mobile, the work of our Professional Services team has been instrumental in improving the Bolt product as a whole, with some of these features now available for all Bolt customers.
BCA Research is the independent global investment research and strategy advisor brand owned by finance giant, Euromoney. Since 1949, they’ve been using original macro insights from their research to help people with investment decisions. From global economics to equities and FX, the BCA Research app is a home for the latest reports and insights.
One core requirement for the app was a high class audio experience. Thanks to Bolt’s seamless Amazon Polly plugin, all articles and reports have ‘listen’ audio capabilities for listening on the go. Plus, we built a dedicated media hub for their ‘BCA Quick Takes’ podcast and webcasts.
Team Pugpig worked on a lot of unique features for the app, including an importer to allow the BCA editorial team to use their own API to feed content into the app with no additional effort. We also built out a seamless sign-in journey with the BCA SSO.
We thoroughly enjoyed working closely with the team on an app that has all the functionalities they initially approached us with. We worked tirelessly and collaboratively to find solutions their challenges and are very much looking forward to phase two of the project.
The BCA app makes a call to their internal authentication platform on initial login to identify the appropriate products that a customer holds access to, such as asset allocation or emerging markets. Based on this, we were then able to personalise the ‘my feed’ section of the app by displaying the appropriate timelines for each user.
Every day at 12:00 GMT the BCA team holds a live webcast in the ‘live’ section of the app which is only accessible to paying subscribers. We integrated their live player, provided by IBM, so users could watch these webcasts in the app and ensured there was the appropriate paywall messaging for people who didn’t have access.
BCA’s reports are just one tool in their content library that see high engagement from their users. We made sure they look great across all devices with our responsive templates and added a ‘view as PDF’ button to enable readers to take a more classic approach to the reports, including being able to zoom in on chart and graphs.
This is a big step forward for BCA – both in terms of the app experience/features and also having a partner who can support us and help us evolve over time. We really appreciate the way Team Pugpig has been willing to work with us on finding solutions.
Mark Cotton
Head of Product (Investment Research Division), Euromoney
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Team Pugpig worked extensively with this iconic news journal to beautifully replicate the look and feel of its premium magazine into their app. As well as digital editions, the app showcases podcasts and editorially-curated content in true The Spectator style.
Lowered their tech spend
4.8/5 rating on App Store
In the top 25 apps in ‘Magazines’ in App Store
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Pugpig’s dmg media portfolio also includes The Knowledge and New Scientist. All three titles use the Bolt platform to deliver highly engaging, trusted content to thousands of loyal customers around the globe, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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As Australia’s trusted voice, ACM have launched 14 titles with Pugpig including The Canberra Times and Western Advocate. Readers enjoy local and international news across user-friendly digital editions and live content feeds.
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With over 48 monthly sessions per user, The Pink Un uses Pugpig to monetise their most popular content across audio and video and provide extra value for their dedicated team of followers.
Over 48 sessions per user per month
4.7/5 App Store rating
82% trial-to-paid subscription conversion rate