Taking cues from social media, the BLOX Now mobile app eschews conventional news app design in favor of a single, continuously-scrolling strea… Read more
Webinar | Google News Initiative fundamentals training for BLOX CMS. Join us on June 21st @ 10:30 AM CDT.
"Our main focus in 2018 is knowing our audience, making our websites intelligent, and knowing how—and what—to deliver to our online users," said Alessia Alaimo, digital media manager for Wick Communications. Read more
Recent changes to industry standards mean too many ad spots can now equal less revenue. The new formula for publishers should be thoughtful and viewable ad placement equals more revenue. Read more
Identify the steps you need to take to ensure compliance—including immediate changes to your Terms of Service. Read more
The General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) legislation that will go into effect on May 25th, 2018. It is said to be the most comprehensive data privacy initiative of the past 20 years. Any company currently collecting and storing this data from readers in the European Economic Area (EEA) fall under the purview of the GDPR and consequently, its penalties. Read more
From social media to over-the-top (OTT), everyone is talking about video. At our May customer webinar, Susan Bell, senior product manager of B… Read more
The goal of every site is to draw users in and keep them—an engaged userbase usually equates to bigger revenue. At our April customer webinar,… Read more
While many college media sites struggle with limited resources, the Collegian at Penn State has found a way to thrive. In partnership with Tow… Read more
Software & service updates
In this release we are making infrastructure changes that should not be noticeable to admin …
In this week's Flex Templates release, we are happy to introduce two new tools to help publishers create content for podcasting: an iTunes specific feed, and a new block that will show and play audio assets, along with their podcast-specific artwork.
In this release we are making infrastructure changes that should not be noticeable to admin or front-end users. If you experience any issues or have any questions, please contact customer support at (800) 293-9576 or TownNews.com/support.
In this minor update to BLOX Static Pages, we are fixing an issue with embedded images displaying on SSL pages.
In this week's Flex templates release we are making several changes which should increase the performance of individual asset pages, as well as the site as a whole. In addition, it will reduce load on our servers by making the page code more intelligent.
As part of our ongoing commitment to implement new techniques to speed up websites, we are adding http pre-loading and DNS pre-fetch capabilities to non-critical, third-party library files. Previously we were using these techniques to speed up the access for critical BLOX CMS files on our CDN.
In this release we are making infrastructure changes that should not be noticeable to admin or front-end users. If you experience any issues or have any questions, please contact customer support at (800) 293-9576 or TownNews.com/support.
In this release we are making infrastructure changes that should not be noticeable to admin or front-end users. If you experience any issues or have any questions, please contact customer support at (800) 293-9576 or TownNews.com/support.
In this release we are making infrastructure changes that should not be noticeable to admin …
In this week's software release, we are releasing a Call To Action feature to help businesses generate additional leads. We are are also making infrastructure changes that should not be noticeable to admin or front-end users.
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From social media to over-the-top (OTT), everyone is talking about video. At our May customer webinar, Susan Bell, senior product manager of B…
When I go into blox, and "Write an Article", I paste text into the body and all returns are removed.
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We have noticed an uptick with this problem. Whereas all of my Googling says it is likely an issue with malware on the user's device -- how ca…
We are working on adding new "social override" fields to allow customization of these meta tags at an asset by asset level. The fields would include:
I think a nice feature would be a custom option within a block to schedule it for certain times.
Instead of URLs picking up an asset's title then generating new URLs when titles are changed, could we consider an SEO title field where an ed…
There really needs to be an accounting / reporting function for the user groups that admins are assigned to.
Text to audio. Is there a tool we can use with our site that would "speak" our text articles? I've seen this on other news sites. And I am abl…
Instead of URLs picking up an asset's title then generating new URLs when titles are changed, could we consider an SEO title field where an ed…