Whiz MobileNewsPack™

MobileNewsPackPack™ is a white-label mobile solution for news and media publishing industry, which Whiz customizes and delivers as a service to the publisher.

Full stack of features built to delight your viewers

Count on the MobileNewsPack™ solution that powers over a hundred and fifty (150+) mobile apps for newspaper and broadcast TV publishers, available on various app stores. Over a million downloads and counting.

Multi-device Rapid App Deployment

Enables Publishers to rapidly (in just 30 days) and simultaneously (including iOS, Android, and HTML5) roll out mobile apps for its users. Multi-platform and multi-device capability under single solution ensures integrated mobile solution with no dependency on multiple vendors .

  • Multi Device APP Deployment

Customizable Apps

The base apps solution can be customized per Publisher requirements for additional features and UI/UX changes.

  •  Custom Publishing

Comprehensive Subscription Models

Supports all major subscription models like digital subscription, all-access, in-app purchases, day pass, freemium and free. Integrates with your existing circulation system to offer unified customer support. Integrates with mobile app stores like Apple iTunes, Google's Android Marketplace, and Amazon's Marketplace for a smooth buying experience.

  • Comprehensive Model

Advertising Ready

Readily integrates with Google DART SDK, Google DFP Free/Premium, Yahoo APT, OpenX, and OAS. Support various types of ads such as video pre-roll ads, intersticial ads, banner ads, and others.

Content Normalization Engine

The cloud-based Content Normalization Engine ingests content from multiple legacy systems (as applicable for Print publishing), Publisher CMS, Web CMS, Classified Ad Systems, and Image Servers. Ensures a normalized and unified content flow, managed within the central system, removing dependency on legacy backend systems.

Real-time Updates

With the mobile dashboard the publisher can log in and control several facets of the apps including real time changes to add/edit/delete sections that are shown in the app. All this can be done from the server without having to re-release the apps to the Appstores for review and approval.

User Generated Content

A powerful feature, UGC, that allows any app user to submit a video/story/picture to the publisher which, after review and editing, can go live in minutes. This provides publisher access to "volunteer" reporters anywhere and where publisher's own reporters can not reach to cover stories.

Multimedia content (including Live Video)

Accessing stored video stories and LiveVideo are part of the mobile app experience.

Social Media

Allow your users to seamlessly access popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Email, and others. Post links to stories from the app and interact with their friends on stories that are important to them.

Content Security

We take security seriously. We use industry standard encryption to pass the Publisher's content securely between legacy systems, Content Normalization Engine, and subscriber devices.

Mobile Apps As Service

MobileNewsPack™ is a white-label mobile solution for media publishing industry, which Whiz will customize and deliver as a service to the publisher. A typical offering includes customized apps for iPhone, iPad, Android Smartphones, Kindle Fire and HTML5 mobile web, and one year MaaS support agreement. Offered as a service, our solutions provide end-to-end content access from publisher's CMS to readers' mobile devices.

Future Proof your Business

Whiz plans to add mobile apps for new platforms as they become available. This makes Publishers' investment future-proof and relieves them from ongoing mobile app development, upgrade, compatibility, and support concerns.

Search for past stories you have seen on the mobile app

Searching a story, video clip, and picture from past is a breeze using the built-in search feature. Describe what you are looking for in a few words with the duration for the search, and the app instantly brings up what you are looking for.

Weather

The weather widget adds valuable location specific information for the viewers.

Location-based search and triggers

Search for restaurants, places, and traffic conditions when you are on the road. Receive traffic alerts and reports from publisher or third party.