Your newspaper on iPad, iPhone and Android

Visiolink is offering a wideranging and stable platform for the media houses in their needs in distributing content to smartphones and tablets. Visiolink offer solutions from simple, compact, and yet efficient and pleasing looking 1:1 replicas of the newspaper, to advanced solutions with tight integration of XML based article- and picture-data from the editorial system. You can also select to integrate new advertising opportunities via e.g. interstitials and dynamic splash screen ads.

With the possibilities to integrate online newsfeeds, video feeds and other online media, we can also offer our customers the best from both the offline and the online world in one solution and still have a high emphasis on delivering solutions, which demands the smallest needed daily resources at the media house.

 

By integrating the graphical pages with XML based page information from the editorial system, it is possible to open up for an article based reading mode for an even richer reading experience. This can be further expanded by integrating related images and even image galleries in the article view – again controlled via XML data from e.g. the editorial system.

 

Our apps supports all normal buying options like in-app purchase of single editions or e.g. 30-day access licenses. We have added to these purchasing methods and support e.g. voucher logins, where you can offer single sales backed up by a physical product in a retail environment. You can use the same type of scratch card used for other identical purchase situations and create an exciting solution, where the digital newspaper is sold via a physically accessible product in kiosks or at e.g. trade fairs, conferences, hotels, and schools.

 

Via the option for dynamic splash screens, it is possible for the media house to in cooperate the wanted advertisement that should be shown, when the user starts the newspaper App. Another advertising possibility is interstitials ads, which can be controlled by the media house in how often the ads should be shown to the user.

 

Android-based devices are now growing a larger and larger customer base – especially in the smartphone markets. Therefore, this is the right time for the media houses to look into this platform as a new distribution possibility. Our Android based solutions has the same feature set as is known in our Apple iOS based solutions, but off course adapted to utilize the features of the Android platform. This means, that you will see the same kiosk-views, section-views, zoom-capabilities, in-app purchases, integration of interstitials ads, XML article integration etc. as known from our iPad and iPhone Apps.

 

Your App solution from Visiolink can start out in its most simple form, via a digital copy of your newspaper being automatically served to smartphones and tablets the moment you transfer data to the printing presses. Without compromising in efficiency or needed resources, you can ad layers of functionality by e.g. integrating your article texts from the editorial system or adding different types of on-line media.