Block Communications, Inc., owner and operator of broadcast stations in the Kentucky, Illinois, and Ohio markets, has broadened their relationship with TownNews, which has provided video and OTT services to BCI-owned WDRB (Louisville, KY) since January of 2018. Read more
The Cleveland Jewish News is defying what it means to be "just a weekly niche." Winner of the Press Club of Cleveland's 2018 awards for Best Non-daily Newspaper and Best Website in Ohio, CJN k… Read more
MOLINE, IL — Nov. 5, 2018 — More than 550 unique titles are now produced using TownNews' BLOX Total CMS, and eight years post-launch, the integrated digital publishing platform is still underg… Read more
Once thought to be a novelty, 24/7 delivery of local news video to OTT (over-the-top) devices like Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV, has become the big focus—and driver of revenue—for ABC-af… Read more
MOLINE, IL — Oct. 11, 2018 — The Cowles Company, owner and operator of broadcast stations in the Washington and Montana markets, has selected TownNews to power their future digital initiatives… Read more
In this release of BLOX Core, we are adding functionality to the User Accounts system, to help manage and control users on the site. These add…
There are two new options available under Interactivity in the "Utility: Promo Designer" block:
BLOX Comments will now provide better mechanisms to detect spam and train our integration with the Akismet spam detection system.
Automated Enhancements provide an "easy button" for filling out Business Directory listings. (It's literally a button!) And now Automated Enha…
Custom images now use our smart-sizing technology. Add a logo to your page, a cover for this week's magazine edition, or an image for a promot…
This week we are adding new tools targeted to smartphones to help you connect even more with your audience.
We are excited to announce several new upgrades to the popular BLOX Go mobile interface.
In order to further protect the privacy of site users, TownNews will be removing several user interests fields from the User Dashboard on Octo…
We're very excited to introduce new restaurant fielded data for BLOX Business Directory!
Users looking for a business will now be able to revise search criteria from within the search results page.
By using quizzes, polls or contests, a new integration with Insticator provides sites with a self-guided interface to raise site metrics. Inst…
This week we are introducing a versatile new block, "Card: Modular summary," which can create several mobile-friendly boxed styles. These modu…
The BLOX Now App 2.0 includes new revenue opportunities, design changes and improved overall functionality.
Design a variety of promotional overlays, slide-ins, and other offer messages for visitors with a fun, robust and useful "Utility: Promo Desig…
In this week's release we are adding a new asset type—called the "File" asset—which helps streamline workflows and reduces complexity for user…
In this release we are moving the "User Accounts" management tool into the Community menu, and expanding it into a standalone application.
The overline field allows you to type in a short phrase and choose a text color, background color and an icon. The new feature, available in t…
With this release, we are adding new functionality to the "Card: Updates" block that allows it to dynamically check for updates every 15 minut…
How a user interacts with your site tells a lot about what content they find compelling. For example, if a user frequently clicks on content t…
With this week's Flex Templates software release, we are adding the ability to monetize the infinity scroll area by including an ad position. …
Sports fans nationwide are turning their attention to college hoops, and pick’em contests are a fun and engaging way to turn local sports fans…
Email newsletters remain a vital tool to drive user engagement and subscriptions. At our December customer webinar, Phil Pracht, product manag…
Engage your audience and earn more revenue with these features and updates you may have missed. At our November customer webinar, Christine Ma…
When local events happen—from public forums to sporting events to live music—your community looks to you for quality coverage. At our October …
At our September customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management at TownNews, introduced the all-new Promo Designer block …
Just in time for football season, kick off ultra-engaging sports challenges—complete with scores, news, user-managed leagues, and expert picks…
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.
Taking cues from social media, the BLOX Now mobile app eschews conventional news app design in favor of a single, continuously-scrolling strea…
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…
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,…
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…
Digital advertising is about to get even more complicated. In an attempt to make ads less annoying for users, Google Chrome browsers will begi…
BLOX OTT enables media organizations to grow their audiences with branded channels on all of the major streaming platforms, including Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV. At our January customer webinar, Susan Bell, senior product manager of BLOX OTT, discussed what over-the-top (OTT) video is, how to populate your channel with high-quality homegrown and community-sourced video, and how to turn your channel into a powerful driver of new revenue.
Starting as early as January 1st, 2018, sites with programmatic advertising inventory that’s less than 70 percent viewable will see a dramatic drop in fill rate and eCPMs. At our December customer webinar, we talked about why viewability matters to digital advertising and what you can do to increase your score and impact your bottom line.
At our November BLOX Total CMS webinar, Jon Winters, product architect for BLOX Total CMS, showed off the system's latest client improvements and updates.
On Episode 5 of BLOXCast, Rick Rogers talks with Susan Bell, senior product manager at TownNews, about the development of the new BLOX Now mob…
Do you want to know how a family-owned newspaper group is working to position itself as a digital media leader? Learn more about how Wick Comm…
Jed Williams, Chief Innovation Officer for the Local Media Association, joins Rick to discuss the topics that are top-of-mind for local media …
In this episode, Derek Gebler, vice president of broadcast and video services for TownNews.com, joins Rick Rogers to talk all things video and…
Rick Rogers, VP of sales at TownNews.com, sits down with his first guest, Guy Tasaka, to discuss over the top (OTT) video streaming services a…
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