Publishing
at wire speed

News, lifestyle, B2B and niche publishers need CMS, delivery, paywall, ads, search and GEO to work as one stack. We ship editorial tooling your newsroom actually enjoys, wired to infrastructure that stays fast under a traffic spike.

Publishing topology: CMS, edge delivery, paywall, search, ads and reader analytics media.stack ttfb 210ms cms · edge · wall · search Headless CMSworkflow · roles Editorspreview · schedule Assets · DAMavif · webp · hls Edge delivery · CDNssg · isr · streaming ssr Paywallmeter · entitlement Ads · sponsorprebid · native Search · GEOhybrid + citations Analytics · cohortschurn · propensity · AI-answers

CAPABILITIES

Six publishing surfaces under one editorial team

CMS, edge, paywall, ads, search and GEO — engineered as one product so the newsroom edits, the ops team deploys and revenue stays above the CWV line.

01

Headless CMS

Editorial-grade models, roles, workflow, previews, scheduled publishing, multi-site, multi-locale, graphs between pieces.

02

Edge delivery

SSG / ISR / streaming SSR with CDN, image pipelines, font strategy, locale-split bundles and sub-second TTFB.

03

Subscription & paywall

Metering, registration walls, hard walls, gifting, entitlement APIs, churn hooks wired to editorial calendar.

04

Ad & sponsorship

Header bidding, direct campaigns, native placements, sponsor hubs, brand-safe targeting and consent-aware GDPR.

05

Search & discovery

Hybrid search (lexical + vector), topic pages, evergreen routing, related-story logic and editorial curation.

06

Analytics & GEO

Reader analytics, retention cohorts, AI-answer citation tracking and topical authority scaffolding for LLM surfaces.

READER RAILS

Benchmarks that matter for media

The five KPIs that separate a drive-by audience from a paying base. Targets are the ones we design to; yours will flex with category, geography and editorial cadence.

MetricTargetMechanism
Registered users18%Share of known readers on a typical news site after one year of proper registration walls
Paid conversion2.4%Registered → paying on metered paywall with editorial propensity model
Refund / churn5.8%Monthly subscriber churn target on an optimised retention stack
LCP p75 (mobile)1.9sCore Web Vitals target that still protects ad viewability
AI-answer citations+38%Lift from GEO work on evergreen topic hubs within two quarters
Answers over articles

Generative answers are changing the top of the funnel. GEO work reshapes topic hubs, schema and citation signals so AI surfaces quote you instead of your competitors.

Open growth, analytics and GEO ↗

STACK

CMS · delivery · monetisation · discovery

Default toolkit for a modern publishing stack. Substitutions driven by existing licence agreements and the ad-ops team's preferences.

CMS · workflow

  • Sanity · Contentful · Strapi
  • Custom Postgres + Editor UI
  • Scheduled publish + review chain
  • Preview environments per branch

Delivery · CDN

  • Astro · Next.js · Remix
  • Cloudflare · Fastly · Vercel
  • Image service + AVIF / WebP
  • Edge middleware · hreflang routing

Monetisation

  • Stripe Billing · Piano · Zuora
  • Prebid header bidding
  • GAM · native integrations
  • Consent mode v2 · IAB TCF

Search · GEO

  • Algolia · Typesense · Meilisearch
  • Vector hybrid (pgvector + BM25)
  • schema.org: Article, FAQ, HowTo
  • llms.txt + structured citations

Adjacent disciplines

CMS · edge · wall · search

Build the publishing stack your newsroom deserves

Share your CMS incumbent, the paywall strategy, your three biggest evergreen categories and the traffic shape. We come back with a migration sketch, CWV target and 90-day editorial-tooling plan inside ten working days.