We are very happy to introduce BLOX Notifier, an application that helps streamline, manage and automate social and push notifications within the BLOX CMS platform. Read more
News & Views
In this week's major release of BLOX CMS, we are making significant improvements to the user interface to create a smooth, flat design with improved performance and a new menu. Read more
TownNews is pleased to announce that Phil Pracht will transition to the company's sales team as regional manager for the College Program and Midwest region. Phil has served as product manager at TownNews for over four years, where he has guided the growth and innovation of an array of revenue, privacy, and security initiatives. Read more
Two best-in-class companies in the local media space join forces to create new editorial page design/production efficiencies for print newspapers. Read more
TownNews, creator of the media industry's leading content, revenue, and engagement platform, announced today that it is acquiring GTxcel's Rayos and Rivista suites. The acquisition will add more than 200 broadcasters and magazine publishers to TownNews' client roster, which already includes nearly 1,800 newspaper, television, radio, magazine, and web-native properties. Read more
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Create useful buttons and text links with this week's new "Utility: Promo Button" block. Much like the "Utility: Promo Designer" block, the Pr…
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Today we are introducing a new alternative to Google Maps, from a company called HERE Technologies. The HERE platform does not require a credi…
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In order to reduce the occurrence of emails from the BLOX CMS system (such as password reset emails) going to a user's spam folder, we will st…
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We are very happy to introduce BLOX Notifier, an application that helps streamline, manage and automate social and push notifications within t…
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In this week's major release of BLOX CMS, we are making significant improvements to the user interface to create a smooth, flat design with im…
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Connect your Field59 schedule feed with the new "Utility: Schedule notification" block being rolled out this week. Use this block when a show …
Automatically claim and monetize your videos with Field59-supported YouTube Partner program accounts
TownNews is happy to announce that Field59's ability to publish directly to YouTube will now work with media sites who are part of the YouTube…
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In response to requests from both media sites and consumers, we are now adding more photo sizes to our "Professional Prints" product.
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The "Followed Notification" feature allows readers to sign up for topics they are interested in and get daily emails about those topics. This …
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This new block type will help create modular, eye-pleasing presentations in several different types of layouts. The "Card: Modular Grid" block…
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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…
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There are two new options available under Interactivity in the "Utility: Promo Designer" block:
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BLOX Comments will now provide better mechanisms to detect spam and train our integration with the Akismet spam detection system.
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Automated Enhancements provide an "easy button" for filling out Business Directory listings. (It's literally a button!) And now Automated Enha…
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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…
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This week we are adding new tools targeted to smartphones to help you connect even more with your audience.
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We are excited to announce several new upgrades to the popular BLOX Go mobile interface.
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In order to further protect the privacy of site users, TownNews will be removing several user interests fields from the User Dashboard on Octo…
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We're very excited to introduce new restaurant fielded data for BLOX Business Directory!
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Users looking for a business will now be able to revise search criteria from within the search results page.
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…
Webinar | Tourney fever is coming—score big with ultra-engaging college bracket contests - Jan. 2019
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.
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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