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
Webinar: How to create and execute a successful video strategy for local media. Join us on May 3rd @ 10:30 AM CDT.
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
TownNews.com, creator of the media industry's leading multimedia content management platform, announced today that it is acquiring Field59, producer of acclaimed video management and streaming solutions for media organizations. Read more
MOLINE, IL — The Local Media Association (LMA) has honored TownNews.com with the 2018 Digital Innovation Award for Best R&D Partner. The a… Read more
Things move fast in the digital world—blink and you may just miss something! At our March customer webinar, we reviewed recent features and up… Read more
Google recently announced that starting in July 2018, with the release of Chrome 68, they will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure.” Read more
We’ve been busy adding new features and functionality to BLOX CMS. Our goal is to help our partners increase CPMs, improve viewability and com… Read more
It can be disappointing to see local business ads show up on your site via network advertising. What is it that keeps advertisers from buying … Read more
Software & service updates
In this release of Flex Templates, we are adding three new Utility Regions for the article page, a new and improved interface for the way business information is shown on certain pages, as well as several bug fixes and minor changes.
Integrate ads, messages or third-party widgets in more places with three new article page Ut…
In this release we are switching to a new API which will be used for weather data. In general, this change should not be noticeable to admin or front-end users.
In an effort to generate additional leads for classified ads or calendar events—and to conso…
We are very excited to announce a completely redesigned, re-imagined and refreshed interface…
This is a major new release of the BLOX CMS core system. In it we are drastically improving the BLOX Go interface, adding support for 360-degree video, and creating a new field which will accept alternative titles for assets.
In this version of Flex Templates, we are adding support for additional behavior-gathering tools for the iQ Engage program, suport for 360-degree videos, and fixing several bugs.
BLOX CMS native video now has a 360-degree video option. This is a great way to create to ad…
Customize the title as it appears in the article URL with the new "URL title" field availabl…
In this release of BLOX Classifieds, we are making minor updates to some of our data formats, as well as making a few other updates and fixes.
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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…