Bolt
Highly customisable mobile apps combining live content, digital editions, podcasts, video and loads more. On iOS, Android and web.
Pugpig is the publishing platform that powers the world’s leading media brands
Launch deeply engaging mobile apps, lightning fast websites and beautifully curated archives on our digital publishing platform
A highly customisable platform
Choose from a range of totally customisable curated cards or create bespoke features to engage your readers, members and subscribers. Build a mobile app or website that’s as bespoke as you want it to be.
Launch in no time with zero fuss
Get up and running in days. With out-of-the-box frameworks that plug straight into your existing systems, you get maximum impact with minimum effort. Publish your content far and wide fuss-free.
We do the tech so you don’t have to
Giving you more time to focus on your core business. Our publishing platform is constantly evolving – choosing Pugpig means a significantly lower total cost of ownership compared to doing it yourself.
Our products
One digital publishing platform, three deeply engaging products.
Site
Lightning fast, WordPress powered, SEO optimised websites with publisher-focused features and third party plugins.
Archive
Beautifully curated, fully searchable digital archives rendered in HTML and original PDF formats.
“Pugpig are innovative and hugely supportive.”
Pugpig are an excellent partner – they are a true extension to our team. They act as our CTO and trusted advisor on all things tech and beyond.
Katie Vanneck-Smith
Co-Founder and Publisher, Tortoise
Pugpig have been a strategic partner of ours for some time.
Laurence Taylor
They are plugged in, innovative, and hugely supportive.
Managing Director, New Scientist
Launch engaging mobile apps, digital editions and replicas with Pugpig Bolt
Build beautifully simple branded mobile apps that boost engagement and will have your audience hooked.
Publish as live content, digital editions or both
Feed straight from your own editorial systems – all content works beautifully across all devices. Choose responsive, interactive HTML or native PDF pages (or a hybrid of the two) for your digital editions and replicas.
Surface stories, audio, video, podcasts, events and more
Bolt’s customisable set of curated cards also support everything from puzzles and promotions to products, advertising and sponsorship.
Packed with features and highly customisable
Including sharing, dynamic timelines, offline mode and loads more. Plus, Bolt is super flexible – we’ll work with you to create bespoke features to your heart’s content.
Build lightning fast websites with Pugpig Site
Launch beautiful content-led websites, hosted by AWS, monitored by Rackspace and managed by the Pugpig team in our WordPress-powered CMS.
Manage subscriptions and memberships
Pugpig Site comes integrated with Piano so you can include subscription and memberships services right off the shelf.
Seamless content and integrations
Every page you publish works beautifully across all devices. Plus, Site is packed with a growing list of integrations from SEO optimisation and consent management to email marketing and sharing.
End to end support
From design through to launch and migration from your old platform, we look after all the tech headaches so you can concentrate on your core business.
Boost long term subscriber value with Pugpig Archive
Create beautiful, fully searchable digital archives and offer readers a truly unique way to browse through highly curated collections of your content.
Engage readers with archive content
Leverage a wealth of untapped historical content and imagery at your disposal. Perfect for professionals, researchers, students, journalists, historians and lovers of some of the world’s favourite magazine brands.
Grow subscriber revenue
By broadening your content offering, you’re tapping into a brand new audience and strengthening subscription revenue.
The Pugpig State of the Digital Publishing Market Report
What is the current state of digital publishing and what will it look like in 2023 and beyond? As the digital publishing platform provider for hundreds of consumer, specialist, B2B and news media brands, this is our second annual report looking at the state of the digital publishing industry.
We’re the world’s favourite publishing platform
With over 170 publishers and 360 of the world’s top media brands, Pugpig’s platform is the best on the market.
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