PUGPIG & ACM
X-CAGO PARTNERS WITH PUGPIG & AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY MEDIA TO HELP TAKE THE SUBSCRIBER NEWS READING APP EXPERIENCE TO ANOTHER LEVEL
AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY MEDIA (ACM)
is an Australian Media Company made up of more than 140 leading rural and regional news brands consisting of community-based websites, daily and community newspapers, magazines and events.
PUGPIG
Is a fully featured, highly customisable SaaS platform that allows publishers to launch and run leading white labelled apps, websites and archives as quick as a flash to deliver.
X-CAGO
is a Dutch media solutions and content technology specialist.
A BRIEF HISTORY
Having launched brand new apps powered by Pugpig, in late 2020 - initially for The Canberra Times and The Newcastle Herald – and then expanding to ACM’s 14 regional daily newspaper titles, ACM were again committed to providing a much-improved mobile reading experience for their readers and subscribers.
Working with the ACM team to reimagine and relaunch the apps, Pugpig called upon X-CAGO’s unparalleled content processing power to deliver ACM subscribers outstanding new features including a faster and cleaner reader experience and a better digital version of Today's Paper on both PC’s and mobile devices wherever they are.
The roll out commenced with The Canberra Times in January 2023 with the other daily tiles following in quick succession.
THE CANBERRA TIMES
For over 90 years and counting The Canberra Times‘ riveting and incisive reporting has made it the preferred news source in Australia’s national capital. Every day, the publication’s award-winning news team brings readers top stories from around the world and the nation.
The Canberra Times app brings together the best of the daily newspaper and its website to take the news reading experience to another level.
The app is free to download, but readers need to be a Canberra Times subscriber to read articles.
Basic subscribers get access to all articles. Premium subscribers also get access to Today's Paper, a digital replica of the paper, and the interactive puzzles.
LATEST UPDATES & ALERTS
News you trust to keep you informed
FASTER LOAD TIMES & FEWER ADS
Enjoy better reading experience
FEATURES INCLUDE
Access breaking news updates 24 hours a day
Browse the latest articles in the topics that interest you most
Save articles to read later
Alerts for breaking news and big stories
Read a digital replica of the day's newspaper (premium subscribers)
Play the daily interactive puzzles (premium subscribers)
DIGITAL VERSION OF TODAY’S PAPER
Browse offline, anytime, anywhere
*Available for premium subscribers
INTERACTIVE PUZZLES
Explore our new range – updated daily!
*Available for premium subscribers
PUGPIG & X-CAGO
A UNIQUE COLLABORATION TO DELIVER A LEADING APP READER EXPERIENCE
Bolt provides a customisable set of curated cards that surface stories, audio, video, podcasts, events, puzzles, promotions, products, advertising, sponsorship and more. It comes with a rich set of analytics and is packed with rich features including sharing, deep linking, search, text resize, night mode, dynamic timelines, personalisation, offline mode, archive and scrapbooking.
Publishers can create digital editions, as responsive and interactive HTML pages, native PDF pages, or a hybrid of the two - called Enhanced PDF.
PUGPIG BOLT
The upgraded app experience for ACM’s daily titles has been achieved using Pugpig Bolt.
Bolt delivers highly customisable mobile apps combining live content, digital editions, podcasts, video on iOS, Android and web.
Bolt allows clients to build beautifully simple branded mobile apps that properly embrace the power of mobile that has audiences hooked.
Content can be automatically fed directly into Pugpig from Arc XP, with no editorial intervention working beautifully across phones, tablets and desktop and integrating with all the major app stores and plugging into the publishers’ own subsystems.
The SuperSet data format actively observes and supports all major data protocols defined by major eKiosks, and seamless ingestion for B2B partners app providers and publishers.
While each of these import protocols and schemas differ in scope and complexity, the X-CAGO format is so comprehensive that it can easily be used for conversion to these and other less sophisticated XML formats and JSON schemas.
X-CAGO’S SUPERSET
X-CAGO leads the way with its universal content format — SuperSet which enables publishers to multiply revenue streams by unifying and further commercializing their content.
SuperSet, a rich and flexible meta format enables publishers to adapt their content instantaneously to any platform with a no-touch approach offering a hybrid of their technology and service to minimize lead-time and, costs while maximizing revenues.
ENHANCED PDF
On behalf of ACM, X-CAGO deliver to Pugpig their conversion service where they take PDFs and turn them into structured content. The structured content gets imported into Pugpig Express and delivered as either responsive HTML editions, or enhanced PDF editions.
ABOUT
ACM is made up of more than 140 leading rural and regional news brands consisting of community-based websites, daily and community newspapers, magazines and events.
It's bolstered by the representation of over 20 independent titles. Combined they serve millions of people in every state and territory across Australia.
ACM is a modern, consolidated regional, suburban and rural media network. By implementing new technologies ACM’s newspapers and websites are better than they’ve ever been.
ACM are passionate about delivering smart solutions and exceptional results for their customers led by a team that it is energetic, creative, collaborative and committed to ensuring it meets the changing needs of audiences and advertisers by creating and publishing compelling content, both online and in print.
ACM are passionate about keeping the communities they serve stay strong, informed and connected.
AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY MEDIA (ACM)
With its origins in 2011, Pugpig has built a team of 50 talented people and amassing hundreds of customers around the world who publish their content to millions of readers every single month.
A growing enterprise, with big plans, Pugpig was co-founded by Jonny Kaldor with a mission to play a significant part in the future of publishing.
Pugpig’s platforms power hundreds of apps for the world’s leading media brands including Australian Community Media, Gannett, Crain and The Economist, to The Independent, News Corporation, Hearst, Conde Nast, Reach and many more.
Pugpig is a fully featured, highly customisable SaaS platform that allows publishers to launch and run white labelled apps, websites and archives serving news media, consumer magazines, specialist media and B2B publishers.
Pugpig’s expansive teams in New York and London offer deep expertise and support to clients globally with an ever-increasing footprint across the UK, USA & Asia Pacific.
PUGPIG
In June 2021, X-CAGO became an important part of the PMG Presse-Monitor family. PMG has the largest daily press database in the German-speaking world and is a leading provider of digital media monitoring, press review creation and media evaluation.
Welcoming X-CAGO to the PMG family, PMG complements its extensive range of content and rights marketing services for publishers to position itself more broadly as a service provider for the content management of clients including media houses, publishers and media monitoring companies.
PMG markets the content and rights of around 850 newspaper, magazine and broadcast publishers with approximately 4,000 print, broadcast and online sources. Of these, around 2,500 are available digitally in the PMG press database. From its location in Berlin, the company supplies more than 5,000 customers from companies, associations and public institutions as well as media monitoring services and PR agencies.
Founded in 2001, PMG is a joint venture of German newspaper and magazine publishers with the following shareholders: Axel Springer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Gruner + Jahr, Handelsblatt Media Group, Hubert Burda Media, Spiegel-Verlag, Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as the Federal Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers and the Association of German Magazine Publishers.
PMG PRESSE-MONITOR GMBH
X-CAGO B.V.
X-CAGO is a Media Solutions Company that has developed, commissioned and deployed internationally recognised technology solutions that bridge the gap between the print, archive, broadcast, digital and online worlds.
X-CAGO provides solutions for publishers and content creators to contribute to the commercialisation and monetisation of their content by successfully and securely capturing, unifying, storing, retrieving, publishing, distributing and syndicating this content.
X-CAGO’s advanced patented software and technologies manage growing volumes of media content by providing clients the capacity to organise and catalogue this information to deliver ‘knowledge on demand’.
With no requirement for a publisher or content creator to change or effect their front or back-end systems, X-CAGO can generate flawless XML and/or JSON files of publisher content to be used seamlessly for different purposes including uploads to CMS systems, archiving, syndicating content to third parties and uploads to Content Aggregators and Digital Newsstands at low cost. Processing of current editions makes them immediately ‘fit for purpose’ through an xml schema either on an article by article or edition level.
X-CAGO’s robust Enterprise Content Management Platform, named Content ExPress™, developed in close co-operation with leading publishers provides an unparalleled platform for storing, distributing, searching, analysing and organising content efficiently and securely.
X-CAGO was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Roermond, the Netherlands and with full client services and sales offices located in Australia, Germany and the USA, X-CAGO’s clients worldwide include the world’s leading Publishers, Press Clipping Agencies, eKioks, App-vendors and other content professionals in public and private organisations.
X-CAGO supports online publishing and content distribution systems for national and international newspaper and magazine publishers. In Australia and internationally counts Australian Community Media, Hearst, Bauer Media, Meltwater, Amazon, Axel Springer, Spiegel TV and Gruner + Jahr amongst its clients, however it is the company’s capacity to work with clients large and small that also sets it apart.
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SERVICES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN
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SUPERSET
X-CAGO currently processes more than 5,000 newspaper and magazine titles from PDF input files into one or more XML/JSON output formats.
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WEB CRAWLING
This is the conversion of articles on web pages into a consistent XML/JSON output format. This is achieved through the use of a high-precision web crawler.
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HISTORIC DIGITISATION
This involves the digitsation of hard copy archival content for media companies / publishers.
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ARCHIVE EXPRESS
Archive ExPress successfully captures, stores, researches, publishes, distributes and syndicates content from both print media (newspapers, magazines, books, catalogues, etc.) and digital media.
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CONTENT TRANSLATIONS
X-CAGO can provide fast and reliable automated content translations in no less than 30 languages. New languages are being added regularly.
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ABOUT US
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