BLOX Content Management System gives news and media organizations more digital publishing tools to create content, attract users, and grow their bottom lines. Why settle for less? Learn more

Solutions for Digital Publishers
Transform your business and thrive in a changing marketplace
Grow revenue, audience, and engagement—while cutting costs—with our innovative, fully-integrated digital platform.
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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.
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"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.
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"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
Powerful, integrated digital solutions for local media
The tools and services you need to grow and engage your audience, boost revenue, and create compelling content—in a unified, secure platform.
With BLOX Total CMS, your content will flow seamlessly to your web and mobile sites, print publications and Live e-Edition, increasing your efficiency and saving you money. Learn more
The crowd-favorite open source CMS that's customized and extended to meet the unique needs of broadcasters. Learn more
The personalized mobile news experience your visitors crave. Learn more
Build your optimal workflow and deliver video to web, mobile, social, OTT, and over the air with the Field59 video management system (VMS) from TownNews. Learn more
The dynamic paywall and metering solution that targets users with custom offers and converts casual visitors into paying subscribers. Learn more
Create a 24/7 TV-like experience for your audience on Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire TV. Learn more
The TownNews iQ DMP program unites industry-leading content and data platforms to help news and media sites turn data into dollars. Learn more
Programmatic advertising made easy. Learn more
Boost engagement with behavioral targeting. Learn more
Grow your audience, expand your coverage and boost revenue with top-quality multimedia content from the TownNews Content Exchange. Learn more
Launch a turnkey digital coupon site that drives engagement, and thrills advertisers. Learn more
With BLOX Business Directory, you can create a high traffic guide to local businesses that advertisers will flock to. Learn more
With BLOX Email Reach you can keep your readers informed and coming back with daily headlines, breaking news alerts, coupons, daily deals and more. Learn more
Deliver a mobile-friendly multimedia e-Edition that will keep your readers coming back for more. Learn more
BLOX Ad-Owl streamlines the creation, processing and scheduling of web, print and mobile classified ads. Learn more
BLOX Classifieds bundles everything you need to build and operate a high-performance classified advertising marketplace. Learn more
The BLOX Real Estate vertical realty marketplace helps you leverage the strength of your brand and audience to match property buyers and sellers in your area. Learn more
With BLOX Wheels, you can be the go-to matchmaker for buyers and sellers in your area. Learn more
With BLOX Tributes you can be the local source for memorials, celebrations and announcements. Learn more
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Professional services
An expert, turnkey digital ad ops team at your fingertips. Learn more
Our FREE Email Optimization Service will help you drive revenue and engagement with automated, high-impact email newsletters. Learn more
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"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
"The benefit of notifications for your mobile app is absolutely the fact that you are keeping in touch with your audience," said Eric Reinert,… Learn more
In April 2021, Lee Enterprises launched four of the group's sites on Audience+ by TownNews. For the next eleven weeks, the dynamic paywall tec… Learn more
When local events halted due to COVID-19 in 2020, the team at Richland Source used the lull to convert to a new calendar integration between E… Learn more
News & announcements
TownNews, in partnership with Recruitology, is helping put media organizations back at top of mind for local employers. Deborah Nelson, partne… Learn more
In 2021, the BLOX CMS team continued to focus on ways to improve user engagement with more designs, better functionality, and easier ways to s… Learn more
Your local advertisers are value-driven and results-oriented. With this new high-performance ad unit, site visitors can buy your advertisers' … Learn more
Help this year's graduates celebrate their accomplishments—while generating new advertising revenue—with our Graduate Tributes 2022 package. Learn more
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"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 2,000 organizations have benefited from the integrated platform we’ve built.
Let us show you how your organization can be next.

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