News & Media Software Development
Publishing software is judged on two extremes: the ordinary day, and the hour a story breaks and traffic multiplies without warning. The second is what the architecture has to be built for.
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Constraints specific to news & media
The problems that shape software here, and that generic engineering tends to discover late.
Traffic spikes without notice
Breaking news can multiply traffic within minutes, and unlike a retail sale there is no schedule to prepare against.
Paywalls sit against search and social
Subscription systems must restrict access while remaining indexable and shareable, which is a genuine tension rather than a configuration detail.
Editorial workflows never pause
Publishing runs continuously across time zones, with embargoes, corrections and legal review that the system must support rather than obstruct.
Video is expensive and central
Media delivery dominates infrastructure cost, and encoding, storage and CDN decisions have direct margin consequences.
Software we build for news & media
Publishing platforms
Editorial systems with workflow, scheduling, embargo and correction handling built around how newsrooms actually operate.
Subscription and entitlement
Paywall logic, metering, trials and subscriber management with entitlement enforced consistently across every surface.
Video delivery
Encoding pipelines, adaptive streaming and cost-aware CDN strategy for media-heavy publishing.
Edge-cached delivery
Caching architecture that absorbs a breaking-news spike at the edge instead of at the origin.
Standards that apply to software in this sector
What the software has to be built to satisfy. Which of these apply to you depends on your jurisdiction, your data and your customers.
[ 01 ]
Personal data
- GDPR
- CCPA
[ 02 ]
Advertising consent
- IAB TCF
- Consent management
[ 03 ]
Copyright
- DMCA
- Rights and licensing records
[ 04 ]
Accessibility
- WCAG 2.2
- Captioning requirements
These are the standards we design and build to meet. Certification or attestation of your organisation is a separate exercise, carried out by a qualified assessor — we can support that process with documentation and evidence, but we do not certify it.
Tell us what happens when a story breaks
Discuss a media projectHow we'd approach it
The service lines this sector most often needs.
Web Application Development
Scalable web applications on modern frameworks, engineered for first-load performance and sustained load.
Cloud & DevOps
Migration, deployment automation and infrastructure on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, built to be operated.
TV & Streaming Apps
Roku, Fire TV and smart TV applications, built around remote-first navigation and video delivery.
Data Analytics & Engineering
Pipelines, warehousing and reporting built so the numbers reconcile and people act on them.
Projects in this space
Financial Media and Investment Education
RealVision
A cross-platform financial streaming service delivering expert analysis across web, mobile, iPad and TV.
- 40%
- Increase in user engagement through dynamic tools and content
- 200,000+
- Engaged members globally
- 4.5
- Average user satisfaction rating
Financial Services, Investment Research and Market Analysis
Global Macro Investor
A subscription research platform delivering macroeconomic analysis to investors and financial professionals.
- 4.8
- Average subscriber satisfaction rating
- 15,000+
- Reports accessed by subscribers monthly
- 65%
- Engagement rate in live webinars and discussions
News & Media: common questions
Something specific to your operation?
Send it over — sector questions are the ones we most like getting.
Ask us01
How do you handle a breaking-news traffic spike?
By serving as much as possible from the edge. If article pages are cached with short TTLs and personalisation is layered on top rather than baked in, a spike is absorbed by the CDN and the origin barely notices. Architectures that personalise server-side on every request are the ones that fall over.
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How do paywalls work with search indexing?
Through structured data that declares which portion of an article is paywalled, so search engines can index the content while the paywall is enforced for readers. Serving different content to crawlers than to users is cloaking and carries real ranking risk — the declared approach is the safe one.
03
Can you integrate with our existing CMS?
Yes. Many publishers have a CMS that editorial staff know well, and the valuable work is around it — delivery performance, entitlement, apps and video — rather than replacing a tool the newsroom depends on.
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How do you control video delivery costs?
Mostly through encoding and delivery decisions rather than storage. Sensible ladder design, per-title encoding where the catalogue justifies it, and CDN configuration that maximises cache hits typically move the bill more than any other single change.
Adjacent sectors
Tell us what happens when a story breaks
Describe your audience, your publishing workflow and your subscription model. We'll come back with an approach.
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