MOLINE, IL – Meredith Corporation's Local Media Group has signed with TownNews.com for the content and video management of 17 television stations. Meredith's television group, based in Des Moines, IA, reaches more than 11 percent of U.S. households, with seven stations in the nation's Top 25 markets—including Atlanta, Phoenix, St. Louis and Portland—and 13 in the Top 50. Read more
Just in time for football season, kick off ultra-engaging sports challenges—complete with scores, news, user-managed leagues, and expert picks… Read more
Individual sites—after consulting their own legal staff—can now request the block for traffic from the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland to be removed. This new incremental option may allow traffic from those areas to view TownNews.com sites while reducing the risk of non-compliance. Read more
From reverse image search to trends and alerts, this course teaches practical skills for reporting in the digital age. At this special customer webinar, Nicholas Whitaker, training and development manager for Google News Lab, presented a Google News Initiative fundamentals crash course specifically for BLOX CMS users. Read more
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
"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
In this Flex templates release, we are updating the AMP implementation to add a protective G…
In this week's release we are adding a new asset type—called the "File" asset—which helps st…
In this release we are moving the "User Accounts" management tool into the Community menu, a…
This is a major release of our BLOX Core software which includes a new asset type for PowerP…
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 Flex Templates release, we are adding a new "auto update" feature to the Card: Updates block, helping readers get newly-posted news even without refreshing their website. In addition, we are adding a new "overline" feature to many of our content blocks, and have fixed several bugs.
The overline field allows you to type in a short phrase and choose a text color, background …
With this release, we are adding new functionality to the "Card: Updates" block that allows …
How a user interacts with your site tells a lot about what content they find compelling. For…
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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…
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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.
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…
Following up on Rob Weir's question, but with a Facebook focus. A Wordpress plug in was just announced making it easy for all publishers to ac…
I would like to request an infinite scroll feature. When you get to the bottom of one story the next story published in chronological order sh…
I figured I'd post this here before I sent in a ticket. Has anyone ever experienced the Facebook comment count being incorrect in a summary block?
The Town News system already displays comment counts in both the Facebook code and the Town News comment counter. This feature should be exten…
