This document explains the integration between BLOX "Flex" (responsive design) templates and Google DFP (Doubleclick for Publishers).
BLOX CMS provides the ability for you to utilize advertorial content on your website.
NOTE: All 3rd party code should be provided by the site. This is a guideline outlining where the code can be pasted to run on the site.
VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is a universal XML schema for serving ads, including Google DFP and OAS platforms, if you are using the TownNews Video Player, to digital video players, is available on Flex Templates.
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Google AMP is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles platform.
This document explains the integration between BLOX "Flex" (responsive design) templates and Google DFP (Doubleclick for Publishers).
Learn more about Google Tag Manager.
NOTE: All 3rd party code should be provided by the site. This is a guideline outlining where the code can be pasted to run on the site.
VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is a universal XML schema for serving ads, including Google DFP and OAS platforms, if you are using the TownNews Video Player, to digital video players, is available on Flex Templates.
Google AMP is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles platform.
Outbrain and Taboola provide recommended articles to your readers while providing you income. Taboola and Outbrain both pay revenue based on the paid links that they display at the bottom of your article.
Learn more about Evvnt calendar events.
Evvnt is a dynamic event marketing automation platform which syndicates event content to multiple event listing sites and calendars as a service.
Log inAdd event title (75 characters)Add event category (up to 3 categories for free)Add event locationAdd start date, start time, end time*Click Next Step
Log inAdd ImageAdd Event title (75 characters)Add Category (up to 3 with free option)Add Event locationAdd Event Summary (200 characters)Add Event Description (2,000 characters)Select type of ticketPaidFree -Registration requiredNo ticketsEnter the capacity of the venueEnter event link type …
NOTE: All 3rd party code should be provided by the site. This is a guideline outlining where the code can be pasted to run on the site.
VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is a universal XML schema for serving ads, including Google DFP and OAS platforms, if you are using the TownNews Video Player, to digital video players, is available on Flex Templates.
Google AMP is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles platform.
Outbrain and Taboola provide recommended articles to your readers while providing you income. Taboola and Outbrain both pay revenue based on the paid links that they display at the bottom of your article.
Inform is a video-matching service that has many technology and content providers throughout the publishing industry, including the Associated Press. After installing the code on a story page, Inform will scrape the page and read the context of the story, and then try to automatically insert…
BLOX Comments is where user-contributed comments are managed.
BLOX integrates with Facebook commenting and allows your readers to comment using their Facebook profile. These comments will need to be moderated though the Facebook Moderation Tool.
This is how to show your name as the author when posting to Facebook.
Note: Livefyre has been acquired by Adobe. Significant changes are being applied to Livefyre. TownNews will stop supporting the Free Version of Livefyre because Adobe is cancelling that service. Instead, they are integrating the Enterprise Version with their Adobe Experience Manager softw…
World Table is a third party product that enables user comments on your site. A comment box will appear at the end of the asset. In order to use World Table, you must have an World Table and obtain a Site ID.
Learn how to create a content importer for NTVB Media content.
Learn how to create a content importer for RealClearWire content.
Learn how to create a content importer for Stacker content.
Payment Handlers is where a payment handler can be configured within BLOX. Payment handlers are third-party services used for processing credit card transactions. BLOX supports Acument, Authorize.Net or PayPal PayFlow Pro payment handler solutions.
Please contact your Regional Sales Rep for pricing information on PayPal's PayFlow Pro account setup and transactions.
TownNews.com's BLOX CMS, our fulfillment partner Spreedly, as well as our gateway partner (PayFlow Pro), are 100% compliant with the MasterCard 2 Series BIN acceptance. This article is in response to customers receiving inquiries/compliance statements about this change.
Recurring payments requires you to have a PayPal PayFlow Pro Merchant account. Contact your Regional Sales Rep for account set up information.
Increase the value of your photo archive by selling the images directly to consumers as high-quality photographs and photo gifts.
Increase the value of your photo archive by selling the images directly to consumers as high-quality photographs and photo gifts.
Increase the value of your photo archive by selling the images directly to consumers as high-quality photographs and photo gifts.
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There are two different numbers associated with Facebook. This article attempts to explain both of them and how they are used in BLOX.
When creating or editing a business in the Business Directory, you can enter in a Facebook ID so the Facebook widget to display on that individual business page.
This article describes how to configure stream targets that allow the Field59 live cloud to act as a cloud encoder that publishes a live stream to a third-party destination such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/Periscope, or other custom destinations.
This article is about custom player configurations.
Facebook and Twitter accounts can both be made Targets within BLOX Notifier by completing a permissions "handshake" between each social account and BLOX CMS.
Learn how Tweets can be embedded inline within an Article asset.
NOTE: All 3rd party code should be provided by the site. This is a guideline outlining where the code can be pasted to run on the site.
VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is a universal XML schema for serving ads, including Google DFP and OAS platforms, if you are using the TownNews Video Player, to digital video players, is available on Flex Templates.
Google AMP is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles platform.
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