Reader

Rewrite the reading experience.

Wrap your journalism in a beautiful presentation.

Meet your readers where they spend most of their time, on their mobile devices. We provide the tools to make your presentation beautiful and drive your community to engage!

 

Wrap your journalism in a beautiful presentation.
Meet your readers where they spend most of their time, on their mobile devices. We provide the tools to make your presentation beautiful and drive your readers to engage! With features designed to create a community, Reader gives your content and readers a place to interact and grow.
Free!
The Reader platform and mobile applications are free to use, no fees are charged to the Publisher. Access to the platform and personalized publication branded mobile applications including all upgrades to existing features and access to new features and functionality, Free!
Revenue Generating
You, the publishers are paid from revenue generated through advertising via Google’s AdMob. Let us help you keep independent journalism alive, by giving you the ability to fund what you love; reporting the news and keeping your communities informed. Publishers have access to the advertising dashboard to view and verify advertising revenue.
You! Branded
Fully customized and branded to reflect your publication branding and colors. These are native iOS and Android applications for phones and tablets. The Reader application is powered by the Reader Platform, which is responsible for content ingestion, reader interaction, interaction feedback, and content distribution to the native applications.
Always Fresh! Background Update
The Reader application downloads content when it is in the background. This ensures that the most recent articles are available whenever the user opens the application. The latest news is ready when they are ready.
Widgets! The Latest News at a glance
Users can add news widgets to their device’s home screen. The widgets update when new articles are published. The Reader Platform pushes new content to the user so that they don’t miss any important news.
Notifications
Users can register to receive Push Notifications for the different sections/topics/categories in your publication. When new articles are ingested by the Reader Platform, it sends notifications to users to let them know new content is available from the section they are following.
Engagement Focused
The application is designed to do two things and to do them well. Provide a beautiful user interface and drive user engagement with the content. Through interaction and action driven feedback, consumption pattern recommendations your readers will return to your application multiple times a day and consume more content that is recommended based on their unique habits.
Save for later
Readers can save articles to read later or to find easier when they have the time to engage with your content. Saved articles will remain on the user’s device until it is unsaved.
Most Viewed
The Reader platform aggregates how many times each article has been viewed and generates a dynamic list of “Most Viewed” articles over the past fourteen (14) days. The list is updated every two (2) hours. View totals are collected anomalously. The Reader Platform does not track your users, and is unable to identify individual users.
Highest Rated
Your readers can rate the quality of reporting. The Reader Platform aggregates the feedback from the previous fourteen (14) days and generates a dynamic list of the “Highest Rated” articles. The list is updated every two (2) hours. Feedback is collected anomalously. The Reader Platform does not track your users, and is unable to identify individual users.
Emotional Response
In addition to rating the quality of articles, users can share the way the article made them feel, allowing the Reader Platform to generate dynamic lists of articles based on emotion (angry, sad, happy, excited, etc.) feedback. The Reader Platform aggregates the data from the previous fourteen (14) days. The list is updated every two (2) hours. Feedback is collected anomalously. The Reader Platform does not track your users, and is unable to identify individual users.
Localized! In your language
Meet your user in their preferred language. Reader currently supports: English, Spanish (Español), Hindi, Gujarati, and Malayalam. Support for more languages will be added by request.
The Engine! The Reader Platform
The platform ingests your content through industry standard RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds. It sanitizes and transforms the content and then makes it available for distribution to mobile applications. It uses Natural Language Understanding (NLU) with features including Sentiment Analysis, Entity Analysis, Entity Sentiment Analysis, Content Classification, and Syntax Analysis to extract the meta-information needed to execute a deep analysis of the content to power the user customized recommendation engine.

Free!

The Reader platform and mobile applications are free to use, no fees are charged to the Publisher.

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