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The ground has shifted. Bots have become a major scourge. To keep sites fast, reliable, and secure, we’re focusing resources on adapting to these new demands. And we need your help. Automated crawlers and bot traffic have reached unprecedented levels. Across many Newspack sites, bots now generate over 90% of all incoming requests. This surge…
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Consolidated transactional email management All transactional emails are now managed from a single screen at Audience > Configuration > Emails. Newspack-managed emails (reader revenue, reader activation, group subscriptions) and WooCommerce emails now appear together in one grid, so publishers no longer move between Newspack settings and WooCommerce to manage what readers receive. Major changes The…
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We’re overhauling the custom GA events we integrated into Newspack sites since late 2023. This overhaul simplifies the number of events we send, standardizes most of the event parameters sent with different events, and should improve the accuracy and usability of these analytics going forward. Note that to use these events, you will still need…
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IN THIS ISSUE Product updates Newspack Dashboard redesign Manage updates to published content Reach readers in low-connectivity areas Set a fallback image for missing media Links in newsletter content get UTM parameters Campaign prompts merge tags Jetpack is rolling out new security features Newspack news Next Data Dashboard training is April 17 April 1 Pub…
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We’ve partnered with Stylebot to make copyediting workflows easier and more efficient.
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How the Cincinnati Herald and the Baltimore Times increased newsletter signups.
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Newspack is expanding the discounted services it offers digital news organizations through an agreement with Nota to make their state-of-the-art AI tools available on Newspack’s industry-leading publishing platform. The Newspack-Nota partnership is expected to help both companies attract new customers and expand the already formidable suite of publishing tools that Newspack offers to the nearly…
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Before offering a new advertising feature — header bidding —to all Newspack publishers, the team tested it with Times of San Diego. In just three months, the for-profit site saw a 24% increase in ad revenue per thousand impressions.
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Pivot and pivot again: the founders of Hyperallergic describe how they adapted to the challenges of the Great Recession and the ongoing global pandemic to build a thriving digital arts site.
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In fall 2020, veteran journalist Margaret Coker founded The Current, a nonprofit, independent newsroom with a clear mission: to produce non-partisan, solutions-based investigative journalism with a focus on issues affecting Savannah and Coastal Georgia.