Solution providers

Admiral, an Inc 5000 company, helps online news and media publishers grow visitor relationships and revenue.

For more than 15 years, Appsfactory has been a preferred product consulting and software engineering partner for several leading news brands, including ARD, Axel Springer, Bloomberg, EWN, FAZ, RedBull, Rheinische Post, Primedia, Stern, SZ, Tagesschau, WDR, ZDF, and a variety of smaller local newspapers. Our full-service digital product expertise spans over a variety of solutions, including custom news apps, news websites, automotive implementations, gaming apps, technology & software consulting, paywall implementations and CMS solutions. Appsfactory covers the entire digital solution range for news publishers within the digital space. We focus on top-tier user- centered design as the basis for all our work. As we look towards future trends in technology, we have established COE’s for the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), automation of editorial workflow, and neural/voice-driven technologies. With over 500 employees in 10 offices globally and QMS certifications in accordance with ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and ISO 27001, Appsfactory is a reliable partner for digital projects of any size.

Arc XP’s cloud-native tools help organizations create and distribute content, monetize websites and drive ecommerce, and deliver multichannel experiences.

BLOX Digital empowers content producers to connect with their worldwide audiences—at scale—and continuously transform to achieve their business goals.

Brightspot has served as the gold standard of content management systems in media and publishing since 2008. Their highly customizable, easy-to-use technology—coupled with their extensive expert support and partner ecosystem—has empowered industry-leading brands to handle high-volume content publishing and peak traffic, all while maintaining top-tier performance. In Brightspot, customers find not just a platform, but a partner who walks alongside them in their digital content journey.

Chargebee is a premier Revenue Growth Management (RGM) platform relied upon by thousands of companies around the globe. Our comprehensive, modular solutions are designed to empower subscription-based businesses, particularly in the retail sector, to effectively acquire, grow, retain, and manage over 50 million subscribers worldwide. Chargebee offers robust tools for subscription management, billing, pricing, and revenue optimization, providing scalable solutions tailored to the needs of businesses of all sizes—from startups to large enterprises. By joining the Chargebee community, businesses can unlock the potential to streamline and scale their revenue operations seamlessly, ensuring sustained growth and enhanced customer satisfaction.

Chartbeat is the leading content intelligence platform, empowering media companies with data to build loyal audiences with real-time and historical analytics across desktop, social, and mobile platforms.

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

Edenspiekermann is a global design consultancy with offices in Berlin, New York City, Munich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Leipzig.We specialize in integrating product strategy and design excellence, developing unique methods and tools to collaborate with editorial and product teams, and driving significant digital journalism transformations. Our results-driven approach has expanded audiences for over 30 media brands across Europe and the USA. Our client list includes renowned names such as The Economist, for which we successfully relaunched its entire product line, POLITICO's Pro Intelligence tools, Switzerland's NZZ products, and Germany's DER SPIEGEL, among others. Beyond the realm of journalism, we have a long-standing partnership with the entertainment industry, having collaborated with Red Bull for nearly a decade. Together, we successfully developed Red Bull TV from its inception, propelling it into a globally recognized brand adored by millions.

Eidosmedia technology is used by many of the world’s leading news-media organizations to deliver quality news content via every digital channel from web and mobile to voice interactive, as well as traditional newspapers and magazines. Using the seamless connectivity of their mobile applications, news teams work securely from any location at home or in the field with a full set of story authoring and coordinating tools and workspaces.

FT Strategies is a digital transformation partner unlike any other.

Glide Publishing Platform harnesses decades of publishing technology experience to bring media companies the most flexible publisher CMS in the world.

SCHICKLER is the leading management consultancy for media companies in the German speaking market. We combine strategy, organization, and data science in a holistic concept. Our focus is on digital transformation for publishers. We have extensive knowledge in the subscription business and together with the german press agency dpa we are running the DRIVE project: using data science to boost digital subscriptions together with nearly 30 regional news publishers. SCHICKLER is part of Highberg – a group of specialized boutique consultancies with a focus on digital transformation.

At Kilkaya, our mission is to empower digital publishers with the tools they need to excel in a rapidly evolving market. We provide innovative solutions that help businesses thrive by delivering real-time insights, customizable dashboards, and powerful A/B testing features. Our platform ensures that you have everything necessary to make informed, data-driven decisions.

Labrador CMS is tailored specifically for the media industry, supporting high-traffic online newspapers, magazines, and TV stations. With our Beyond Headless approach, you combine headless techniques with built-in rendering engine, providing unparalleled flexibility and speed.

Lineup created a new standard for software in the media industry by developing Adpoint, a cloud-based media sales solution that doesn’t require a complex IT infrastructure to deploy and maintain. It can be accessed from any device – computers, tablets, and smartphones – keeping advertising sales reps in front of potential advertisers.

We support publishers in creating high-quality, sustainable journalism products.

Marigold helps brands acquire customers through multiple channels, engage existing customers with curated offers, and turn customers into superfans. Marigold’s approach to relationship marketing stands alone in a world of one-size-fits all marketing technology companies. Our solutions are designed for your specific size, industry, and maturity, giving you the technology and expertise you need to grow the relationships that grow your business, from customer acquisition to engagement to loyalty.

Mather Economics is a global consulting firm that applies a combination of proprietary analytical tools and hands-on expertise to help businesses better understand customers and in turn, develop and implement pricing strategies that maximize operating margins, grow revenue and improve customer loyalty.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We believe technology is a powerful force for good and can build benefits and opportunities for a sustainable future. Our work:

At Naviga, we believe that the world is a better place when we’re all connected. We don’t just mean physically—we mean digitally. That’s why we’ve engineered a Publishing Platform that’s flexible and powerful enough for media companies of any kind to create, enhance, distribute, and monetize your content with ease.

Newsfactory GmbH is a company of Mediengruppe Pressedruck, one of the largest regional media companies in Germany. As the manufacturer of the Web CMS redFACT, the subscription store solution aboFACT with the associated CSS (Customer Self Service) and the single sign-on system ssoFACT, Newsfactory is the competent partner for companies in the publishing industry. Current technical trends are regularly analyzed and taken into account in the development of new systems. This is the only way to enable customers to work effectively and minimize risk in the digital world. With its latest product, sspFACT-IAM, Newsfactory offers fully GDPR-compliant identity access management for companies. Not only the strong media from the group of companies such as Augsburger Allgemeine, Main-Post and Südkuriers benefit from the expertise of Newsfactory's 30 employees: numerous newspaper publishers in Germany and abroad (e.g. Irish Examiner) value the systems and the cooperation with the Augsburg-based company.

The media landscape is once again in flux. Traditional news models are evolving to incorporate the vast reach and influence of social media. As a result, publishers like you face an unprecedented challenge: cutting through the noise to reach and engage your audience across multiple platforms.

From creating financial news solutions, stock market gamification to attract new audiences and addressing journalistic live reporting needs, Norkon empowers the media, news and financial services industries by providing up-to-the-second data, technology and audience engagement strategies.

Nota empowers media organizations with AI-driven solutions that streamline content creation, optimization, and distribution. By driving time savings, improving content output, and unlocking new revenue streams, Nota transforms how stories are told and monetized.

Numbers Protocol empowers media organizations to establish transparency and trust in digital content using blockchain-based provenance technology. Our platform secures content authenticity, ensures copyright protection, and combats misinformation by verifying digital assets' origin, ownership, and integrity.

Piano helps organizations understand and influence customer behavior by putting the power of insights and logic into the hands of their employees. The Piano Analytics and Activation Platform measures thousands of customer data points and acquires first-party data to more deeply engage users and then serve relevant content and experiences based on their unique behaviors and profiles. Using this powerful end-to-end platform, Piano’s clients have achieved more scale, engagement and revenue by expanding the lifecycle and value of every digital interaction. Piano’s global customer base includes IBM, CNBC, Nielsen, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Sports, Gannett, The Telegraph, the BBC, Kirin Holdings and more. Piano has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing, innovative technology companies in the world by Red Herring, World Economic Forum and Deloitte, received Product of the Year from the Business Intelligence Group and won Data Management Solution of the Year from Data Breakthrough. For more information, visit piano.io.

Piano helps organizations understand and influence customer behavior by putting the power of insights and logic into the hands of their employees. The Piano Analytics and Activation Platform measures thousands of customer data points and acquires first-party data to more deeply engage users and then serve relevant content and experiences based on their unique behaviors and profiles. Using this powerful end-to-end platform, Piano’s clients have achieved more scale, engagement and revenue by expanding the lifecycle and value of every digital interaction. Piano’s global customer base includes IBM, CNBC, Nielsen, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Sports, Gannett, The Telegraph, the BBC, Kirin Holdings and more. Piano has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing, innovative technology companies in the world by Red Herring, World Economic Forum and Deloitte, received Product of the Year from the Business Intelligence Group and won Data Management Solution of the Year from Data Breakthrough. For more information, visit piano.io.

PressReader Group is a rapidly growing tech company that partners with the world’s leading publishers to deliver top-quality content to millions of readers around the globe. PressReader’s flagship product is the largest all-you-can-read digital platform of newspapers and magazines, offering users access to thousands of titles from more than 120 countries, including The Economist, The Guardian, Forbes, and Vanity Fair. Users can subscribe for unlimited reading or access the platform through one of PressReader’s international brand partners in hospitality, libraries, aviation and more. These include household names like British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Marriott, Holland America Line and the New York Public Library. These partnerships provide publishers with global reach, aligning them with global brands and enabling them to reach readers across every continent in new and innovative ways. PressReader also powers Branded Editions, the award-winning technology some of the world’s most prestigious titles use for their digital editions and mobile apps.

ProRata.ai ensures that human creators—journalists, authors, visual artists, musicians, and more—are fairly compensated when AI search engines use their work.

Ring Publishing is a modular platform for publishers and media to create and deliver the right content to the right audiences. The platform provides a pure SaaS experience, relieving the client of the burden of all tasks related to development, maintenance, and support and enabling them to focus on the core business activity, such as creating great stories for the readers. The guiding principle of the platform is to provide smart assistants and analytics, automating editors’ tasks at every stage of their work, such as guiding SEO, tagging, finding related articles, etc. The platform’s uniqueness is its proven technology for the automation of content publishing and its personalization for different segments of users, and its great scalability and reliability. All Ring Publishing modules can be used separately in Headless/API mode or integrated together. Ring Publishing is used by more than 60 brands and digital champions in Europe, Africa, and US.

Roxen provides a cloud-based automation platform that streamlines the production of newspapers, e-papers, and magazines. The solution combines intelligent automation with efficient workflows and full editorial control, enabling publishers to produce high-quality pages quickly and consistently while keeping journalists’ original content intact.

Smartico is a technology partner for newspaper publishers focused on building sustainable SMB advertising revenue. With Smartico ONE, publishers transform fragmented digital efforts into a structured, scalable revenue engine that enables sales teams to consistently acquire, activate, and grow local advertisers.

Developed in the newsroom of The Globe and Mail and now part of Mather, Sophi uses AI-powered automation and optimization to help publishers accelerate subscription growth, deepen audience engagement, and maximize revenue through its Dynamic Paywall Engines, Site Automation, and Print Automation technologies—building a stronger, more sustainable future for news organizations.

Stibo DX works with media enterprises all over the world, from the world's biggest media groups to national broadcasters. Stibo DX’s media enterprise platform, CUE, maximizes profitability and scalability by streamlining content creation, asset management, multi-channel distribution and product innovation. Supporting broadcasters and publishers to become multimedia hybrids of the future.

Subsets is the leading lifecycle growth platform for consumer subscription teams.

Subtext is a texting platform that connects you directly with your customers free from the chaos of social media and the clutter of email.

TollBit is a new platform that creates a fluid payment system benefitting both AI companies and content creators. By essentially installing a toll booth on publishers’ websites, TollBit allows content creators to monitor bot traffic and monetize their data and content, while offering AI agents and applications an easy way to pay directly for that content. The platform seeks to address the shifting economics of content creation in the AI era by reducing the legal uncertainties of scraping and protecting the health of the entire content ecosystem.

Viafoura empowers over 600 media brands to discover, engage, and grow their audiences through a robust set of engagement, analytics, and user experience management tools.

WordPress VIP is the technical foundation for many of the world’s largest media companies. We combine the ease and ubiquity of WordPress with the scalability and stability you need to ensure you’re ready for the next big story. Our solutions are trusted by iconic media titans, major brands and government agencies. With WordPress VIP, brands can scale their web presence, enable their teams to produce more web content, and use data to continuously improve content performance, eliminating wasted effort while maximizing ROI.

Yieldbird is a leading provider of ad management products and services. We help Publishers to grow their programmatic revenues.