The world’s oldest weekly magazine, The Spectator, enjoys incredible digital success
Lowered their tech spend
4.8/5 rating on App Store
In the top 25 apps in ‘Magazines’ in App Store
NEWS MEDIA
How news brands are using Pugpig’s news publishing platform
The world’s leading news brands are building beautiful mobile products that drive engagement and subscriptions on our news publishing platform, Pugpig Bolt.
Build beautiful mobile apps that engage your most loyal readers with Bolt’s digital publishing platform
- Mobile is the first place consumers look for news in the morning in the UK, and is on par as the first place for news alongside television in the US.
- News publishers are using push notifications and newsletters to engage audiences. Plus, news generates the most social shares than any other vertical, and our news publishing platform makes this super easy.
- Apps are super sticky – time spent in apps has grown by almost an hour a day in the last four years and continues to rise, while time spent in browsers has remained the same.
- News publishers are streets ahead engaging audiences on mobile apps. News apps on Pugpig see an average session duration of over 20 minutes and an average of 14 sessions per user, per month.
Pugpig Bolt is the newspaper publishing platform packed with features
From fully automated content feeds that champion your biggest stories to beautifully crisp digital editions and replicas, Bolt makes digital news publishing easy.
Surface breaking news and live updates as they happen with custom ‘live reporting’ card designs. Your most important stories are front and centre, making it easy to break the latest news, fast.
Live reporting on breaking news
Bolt’s live content feeds are dynamic, intuitive and feed straight from your own editorial systems. Create a beautiful, responsive and native mobile app with zero additional editorial effort.
Fully automated content feeds
Build responsive HTML or PDF digital editions with ease (or choose a mixture of both). Your content is expertly tailored for digital while retaining your style and reading format.
HTML or PDF editions (or a blend of both)
Drive engagement, build brand habit and familiarity and push your biggest stories. Bolt’s integrations with platforms like Airship and OneSignal make it easy to hone your push notification strategy.
Push notifications
Because news is far more than just the written word. Make audio and podcasts a standout feature of your digital strategy with Bolt’s flexible audio functionality.
Audio and podcasts
Get your readers hooked with video content. Boost engagement, grow subscriptions and increase time spent in-app.
Video streaming
Bolt’s set of curated cards support everything from video, podcasts and puzzles to events, advertising and sponsorship. Customise to your heart’s content.
Custom cards and styling
Your stories are always easy to find thanks to Bolt’s intuitive search function. Powered by AWS Cloudsearch, it’s fully managed, reliable and supports loads of features and customisations.
Powerful search
Plug straight into our Puzzler integration – puzzles are super sticky for news publishers, with users for some news media brands spending over 20% of their time in- app engaging with puzzles.
Engaging puzzles
Supercharge your subscriptions and create a streamlined onboarding journey. Bolt’s seamless subs integrations give you everything you need to grow your subscriber revenue.
Sophisticated subs integration
Bolt comes with all the native features your news media brand could need, including ‘save article’ and ‘share article’ functionalities, dark mode, text resize, and seamless onboarding.
Native out-of-the-box features
See how news brands are building beautiful mobile products on Bolt’s publishing platform
The Spectator
This iconic news journal significantly lowered their tech spend by choosing Pugpig Bolt as their digital publishing platform. Here’s what we did:
- Dynamic styling across mobile and tablet devices for the best experience
- Improved mobile app performance with minimum effort for The Spectator team
- 4.8/5 star rating on the iOS App Store
The Baltimore Banner
We launched this world class app in under eight weeks from start to finish. Here are some of the key features:
- Fully integrated with OneSignal push notification platform
- Uses Apple’s external link entitlement to retain more subscriber revenue and data
- Consistent growth in screen views each month since launching
- Hundreds of five star reviews
Reach PLC
Reach PLC is the UK’s largest publisher – here’s how they use Pugpig Bolt’s news publishing software to engage their most loyal readers across 25 of their leading daily news titles:
- Crisp PDF digital editions with pinch and zoom functionality for easy reading, and section scrubber for jumping straight to news, features, finance, puzzles, or sport.
- Dedicated puzzles sections to drive engagement.
- Live news feeds for breaking stories and the latest news developments.