We’ll be heading north to Birmingham this Thursday the 24th for the Specialist Media Show at the THINKTANK.
Visit us on stand where we’ll be showcasing our latest product releases or come along to one of our three sessions in the Innovation Theatre where our Director of Sales, Les Csonge will be demonstrating our latest offering for small publishers, Easi-App. Our sessions will be at 10, 12.30 and 2.30, so make sure you don’t miss out.
To register to attend the free event click here.
Retailers are seeing significant increases in the rate of daily iPad catalog app
downloads.
Since Apple’s introduction of the catalog category app downloads across YUDU’s portfolio have increased by an average 330%.
YUDU produces many of the US’s top iPad catalogs (including Lands’ End, dELiA*s, Alloy, L.L.Bean & Coldwater Creek) as well as digital catalogs for leading UK retailers such as Littlewoods, Lakeland and Very, the company is confident the figures are indicative of a wider download trend within Apple’s iPad Catalog category.
For further information on iPad catalogs please watch the YUDU iPad catalog video below or by clicking here.
See the full press release here.
YUDU will be at booth 602B at next weeks Publishing Business Conference and Expo in NY, so if you’re planning on going down to the show make sure you pop by to discuss any digital publishing needs you may have.
We’ll be discussing all things digital, from our new entry level app for magazine publishers, Easi-App to fixed layout e-books and micro-bookstore apps! Our full press release can be read here.
We’ll be situated next to our partners Quad Graphics so come on down and say hi, we have so many new exciting developments at the moment we’re confident we have a solution to suit everyone.
Hope to see you there.
YUDU’s Premier Publishing Platform: Cloud Publishing to Apps and the Web – Taking the complexity out of publishing to multiple platforms
1. Upload your assets: magazines, brochures, books, catalogs, videos.
2. Enhance with YUDU Premier Tools: enhance your publications with videos, html 5, audio and image galleries.
3. Publish to Multiple Platforms: No need to re-purpose any content, simply select the platforms you want to publish to and the YUDU system does all the work.
The YUDU Premier publishing platform places our customers in complete control to publish content to the Web and directly into branded apps across multiple platforms. With major releases every quarter we are continuously investing in development to produce the very best solutions for an ever changing world of publishing.
The new feature is available on the Premier App and allows publishers with large archives of valuable content to publish specific libraries organised into designated folders. These categories can be organised by year, month or by week, depending on the content.
The YUDU Premier Publishing System makes the whole process quick and easy; through our cloud system, publishers are able to upload, enhance and publish large amounts of content effortlessly.
We’ve set out to make this in-app category feature as customisable as possible. Publishers can drop in their own HTML templates to ensure the look and navigation is consistent with the brand and the reader’s expectations. The labelling of each category is also completely determined by the publisher.
The new Premier App feature potentially has multiple other uses, such as:
For more information about how you can start monetising your back issues, email archiving@yudu.com.
YUDU’s Easi-App has been specifically designed with the needs of magazine publishers in mind. Our easy-to-use self-publishing system provides all the tools necessary to build an app for Newsstand and publish your magazine title. The whole process is straightforward, fast and hassle-free!
The pricing structure is easy: Low app price paid quarterly and block page purchases.We don’t believe in penalizing success. Just straightforward pricing where the publisher keeps all the revenue!
Why Apple Newsstand?
Downloads of YUDU clients’ magazine apps have been up to five times higher and, on average, more than double since Newsstand’s launch. Newsstand provides a single access point for digital magazines and newspapers on the iPad. It improves visibility and provides a streamlined system which centralizes purchasing, subscriptions and delivery of content. For more information on the Apple Newsstand, click here.
We hope this will help publishers take their first steps into the digital publishing world, any questions just email us here easi-app@yudu.com.
Good news has reached us from Holland!
An app created for shopping chain Allerhande by our partners Senefelder has gone straight in at number one in the free iPad apps section in the Dutch charts.
Watch this space for more exciting developments from across Northern shores.
Mere days after YUDU were rated in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 we’ve gone and done it again, this time YUDU are listed in EContent’s Top 100 Companies in the Digital Content Industry.
The list compiled by EContent Magazine is now in its 11th year and YUDU are honoured to be featured amongst such prestigious companies as Amazon, The Guardian, Adobe, Apple and Google (to name but a few).
This year has seen a shift in focus of the companies honoured; focussing less on enterprise content and more on the world of digital publishing and media as such the judges re-imagined the list and divided it into eight categories: Content Creation, Content Commerce, Digital Content Provider, Distribution & Delivery, Social Media, Mobile Content, SEO & Search Analytics and Web Content Management. YUDU were honoured in the both the distribution & delivery and mobile content, a very proud day, we look forward to seeing how the list changes and develops over the coming year.
The full list can be viewed here.
Virgin Holidays have had an incredibly successful journey using YUDU’s technology; from 2009 when they produced their first 11 online brochures which received 57,000 views and built an opt in database of 22,000 in just a matter of months to 2011 where, in less than a year their app has received more than 65,000 downloads. The full case study with more details can be read below.
The launch of Apple’s Newsstand has marked a pivotal point for digital publishing in the magazine industry. With greater visibility and publishers reporting huge sales increases there has never been a better time to get your titles on the iPad.
With this in mind we have created the following report: An Industry Insight which documents why now is the perfect climate to publish iPad magazines.
To view the item on the iPad download the YUDU App and select: An Industry Insight.