15+ years. One partnership. An award-winning mobile app – and an OTT footprint. For publishers who want to own their digital future.
The PageSuite Agency is our professional services arm – delivering custom mobile apps, bespoke websites, TV apps and specialist development, built around your audience, your workflow, and your commercial goals.
Move beyond a platform product
Newsday is home to one of the largest local newsrooms in the United States, with a long-standing reputation for investigative and community journalism. Its audience expects Newsday-quality reporting on every screen; phone, tablet, desktop, and increasingly, through OTT applications.
Newsday wanted a digital product experience that belonged to Newsday. Its brand, its newsroom workflow, its readers, its commercial model. As streaming habits shifted, that brief extended from mobile to connected TV. They were looking for a partner who understood publishing.
A custom mobile and TV app
At the core of the partnership is a custom mobile app, deeply integrated with Newsday’s CMS. It pulls live news feeds directly from the newsroom, uses vertical video for mobile-first storytelling, and gives subscribers access to eEditions — all wrapped in a reader experience built entirely around Newsday’s brand. The app’s impact was recognised with an INMA award for Best Use of Mobile in 2016.
As viewing habits moved to streaming, that same commitment to a Newsday-owned experience extended to television. NewsdayTV brings the brand’s video library and live news to five major OTT platforms — Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV and Google Play — and has become a flagship example of PageSuite’s OTT capability, as well as the go-to destination for streaming Long Island news. Together, the mobile app and NewsdayTV reflect more than 15 years of partnership between Newsday and the PageSuite Agency.
How Does the Agency Work?
Newsday has a dedicated PageSuite team focused solely on their products, with Newsday setting the roadmap – deciding what gets built, when, and why – and biweekly calls with the technical lead keeping everything moving. Newsday owns the codebase outright, with full control over how the application looks and how it’s developed, from the UX right down to the architecture; their CMS and feeds drive 99% of how the app runs day to day.
PageSuite works as an extension of the Newsday team rather than a traditional agency, with a shared Slack channel, direct access to the technical team, and full visibility of the project board – no account managers in the middle, and no tickets disappearing into a queue.
If this sounds like your next build contact us to speak about your plans. The PageSuite Agency works with publishers who want to move beyond templated products and own a digital experience that’s truly theirs – on mobile, on the web, and on TV.