Transform your business and thrive in a changing marketplace

A cutting-edge, integrated platform to create, distribute, and monetize your multimedia content

Easy drag-and-drop editing

With our built-in visual layout designer, it's simple to change the look and functionality of your website, mobile site, and even your native app—no programming required. Staffers with coding skills have the flexibility to make deeper changes to your site's underlying script and CSS.

And our article design tools make it easy to create beautiful, engaging articles—complete with videos, photos, multimedia galleries, and more.

Mobile optimized

Modern responsive design ensures that your site loads fast, has great SEO, and looks outstanding on every device.

Create and publish videos, images, and articles directly from your smartphone or tablet with our streamlined mobile editor.

Data-powered advertising and engagement

Grow revenue with high-performance targeted programmatic and local ad campaigns that deliver big ROI for your advertisers.

Harness the power of audience browsing data to present visitors with content that meets their specific interests, helping you increase time on site, pageviews and advertising revenue—while slashing bounce rates.

Flexible membership and subscription

Choose the model that's right for your business: All-access, paywall, metering, Google Consumer Surveys, and more. You decide if and how to restrict access using simple but sophisticated rulesets.

"We concentrate on our advertisers and our readers, TownNews takes care of the technology."

— Jay Allred | Publisher, Richland Source

Create once, distribute everywhere

Multi-channel publishing

Engage your audience across the digital spectrum—web, mobile, print, apps, e-Editions, OTT, podcasts, social media, email, distributed platforms—with our complete content management ecosystem.

You can even push content to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), Facebook Instant Articles, and Apple News.

Robust video management

We make it easier than ever to reach your social media audiences with hyper-engaging video content. Simultaneously live stream to your website, OTT apps, Facebook Live, YouTube Live, and Twitter. Maximize advertising opportunities for each video you create with our integrated video platform.

Customizable workflows

Stay organized and manage your content with adaptable, easy to use workflow tools. For print publishers, our integrated digital publishing tools can be configured to support almost any workflow model—digital-first, print-first, or a hybrid.

"TownNews has it right when it comes to the next generation of digital publishing and content management. If I were to start a company from scratch today, the first thing I would do is invest in BLOX Total CMS."

— Bill Masterson | President & publisher, Tulsa World

"On behalf of The Philadelphia Tribune, we thank you for providing us with an exceptional content management system that allows our readers the ability to stay connected with the latest news and information thru our newspapers and digital platforms. TownNews is not just another vendor. You are a strong partner with deep industry roots."

— Robert Bogle | President & CEO, The Philadelphia Tribune

Customer success stories

News & announcements

"BLOX is the best CMS I've ever seen. TownNews has been a huge help to our newsroom and simplified the lives of our reporters and editors."

— Steve Booher | Multimedia news editor, St. Joseph News-Press

Local media's trusted partner

TownNews equips you with the digital services and guidance to transform your business model and flourish in the digital age. Our tools and expertise in digital, video, print, OTT, and advertising enable forward-thinking media organizations to efficiently engage their audiences, increase security, and grow revenue.

Fueled by a passion for local media and a 30-year proven track record of success, more than 1,700 organizations have benefited from the integrated platform we’ve built.

Let us show you how your organization can be next.