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News & Views
Drive traffic during the holidays with these festive collections. Simply create listicles and galleries using content from your area or your archives. Plus with the extra ad inventory and spon… Read more
MOLINE, IL — Dec. 9, 2019 — One of the greatest challenges facing media organizations today is finding a way to effectively convert casual visitors of their websites and mobile apps into highl… Read more
MOLINE, IL (Nov. 12, 2019) - TownNews is pleased to announce that Sinead Steele has been appointed to the newly-created position of Vice President of Operations, and Rick Rogers has been promo… Read more
Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (NYSE: LEE), a leading provider of news, information, and advertising in 50 markets, announced today that the Google News Initiative is partnering with Lee Enterprises and its digital technology subsidiary, TownNews, to expedite the development of a machine learning-based paywall technology. Read more
In this week's Flex Templates release, we are happy to introduce a new block, "Card: Promo boxes." This new block creates a thin row across th…
This small feature can have a big impact on your site. This new setting allows you to choose a max width of 1200 pixels or 1396 pixels. This a…
User registration should be as frictionless as possible, especially in a world of GDPR and privacy legislation. In our ongoing endeavor to ass…
This week we are launching a new mobile-friendly grid called Centerpiece. In this new grid, there is a column in the center of the main layout…
Users can now crop photos in BLOX Ad-Owl or the User Dashboard once the image is uploaded as part of an online order. This allows end users to…
We are thrilled to announce several new features being released in BLOX Now app 3.0. Designed to make your app a unique experience and more pr…
Advanced Automatic Ads is being expanded to support AMP article pages. This new technology provides for lazy-loaded, auto-refreshing ads in a …
A new region has been added to all Flex Templates grids called the "front and index bottom container." This grid inherits from the front page …
A new tool is now available in BLOX CMS: the BLOX Media Library. Found in the "Design" -> "Media Library" menu, this new application will p…
Introducing Advanced Automatic Ads for articles, a major change in how article ads are treated and a step towards programmatic control of ad p…
PR Newswire, a press release distribution platform, is available this week as a new source of content available for import.
The BLOX Syndication application is a great way to to import content from different providers for use on your BLOX site. This week, we are add…
Often, a web push notification will go out while a user is viewing your site. When this happens, an in-browser notice will pop up in the corne…
In this week's Flex Templates release, we are adding a new feature that has a different infinity scroll option. It uses a "Load More" button w…
Introducing a new dynamic Utility Region for use with the "Followed Notification" emails. These emails are sent to end users after they reques…
This week we are happy to announce the addition of two new templates as well as improvements to our Google Ad Manager Creative Templates.
Our new “super” batch processing feature allows authorized users to simultaneously make changes to an unlimited number of assets.
Management of the robots.txt file has been significantly updated in order to protect sites from accidental misconfigurations. This should also…
Choose between the current featured display block and a new headline list style. In this week's release of the BLOX Now App, we've added a new…
Create useful buttons and text links with this week's new "Utility: Promo Button" block. Much like the "Utility: Promo Designer" block, the Pr…
At our January webinar, we gave a sneak peek at two new data-powered solutions that will transform your digital growth in 2020: iQ Audience+ a…
At our November customer webinar, Susan Bell, product manager, and Christine Masters, director of product management, showed off what’s new in…
Join Tim Turner, iQ Engage program manager at TownNews, and Tim McDonough, manager of client strategy at Lotame, as they show you how TownNews…
Though videos and podcasts are all the rage, the workaday, unsung article still accounts for more than half of all page views across the TownN…
At TownNews, our number one goal is to empower YOU to generate revenue with your digital presence. At our September customer webinar, Christin…
At our August customer webinar, Joe Hansen, Senior Product Manager for TownNews, continued our series on digital advertising. We discussed cur…
Become a master of efficiency and automation with the latest updates from TownNews. At our June customer webinar, Christine Masters, director …
At this customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management, and Doug Green, product manager, introduced Programmatic Ads for …
At our May customer webinar, Doug Green, product manager for TownNews, introduced BLOX Offers and showed how you can launch a turnkey digital …
At our April customer webinar, Bridget Sibthorp-Moeker, corporate director of digital subscriptions for Lee Enterprises, and Tim Turner, progr…
At our March customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management at TownNews, introduced BLOX Notifier—an all-new BLOX CMS app…
Webinar | Digital advertising 101: Optimizing your local and programmatic ad inventories - Feb. 2019
Navigating the ever-changing landscape of digital advertising can be a challenge. At our February customer webinar, Patty Bristol, Ad Ops prog…
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 …
Podcasts
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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