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Improve Your User Experience (UX) to Increase Audience Engagement

Last updated October 28th, 2019 Highlights: Users expect seamless interaction with your platforms Provide users with social login, content recommendations, social sharing, prompts to engage, tooltips and personalization to increase…

Barbara BettsJune 14, 2018

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Top Eight Best Practices to Setting Effective Community Guidelines

For media companies, comment sections offer users a place to participate and engage with your journalists and each other. However, comment sections can easily turn toxic without moderation tools in…

Leigh AdamsJune 14, 2018

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How Audience Engagement Tools Impact Revenue

Engaged users increase your pageviews, time on site, and ultimately, revenue. But what is an engaged user exactly? Simply put, it’s a website visitor who...

Jesse MoeinifarJune 14, 2018

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Viafoura Automated Moderation Changes the Game for Community Moderation

Don't Sacrifice the Flowers for the Weeds Have you ever had the pleasure of digging through the comments that pollute the web? If you have...

Jesse MoeinifarJune 14, 2018

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Quit Counting Clicks

In the early days, as print publications moved to the web, one of the key metrics companies and advertisers cared about was pageviews – how many sets of eyes ...

Jesse MoeinifarJune 14, 2018

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Pelmorex Corp. Calls on Viafoura to Help Expand Active Community Membership By Over 50 Percent

Toronto, May 18, 2018: Hoping to cement their position as the online destination for weather and weather-related news, Pelmorex started looking for new ways to build their audience and create…

Jesse MoeinifarMay 18, 2018

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Philadelphia Media Network Taps Viafoura as Critical Technology Partner to Create a Brand Safe and Civil Community

Viafoura, a leader in real-time audience engagement and moderation solutions for media companies, announces it has been chosen by Philadelphia Media Network: Philly.com, the online hub for the Philadelphia Inquirer…

Jesse MoeinifarMay 7, 2018

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When is the GDPR applicable to non-EU media companies?

The GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is the EU’s most recent attempt to create a harmonised data protection framework across all Member States. It aims at giving users more…

Barbara BettsApril 6, 2018

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The Power of Performance: The Viafoura commitment to site optimization

Media companies and content sites invest heavily in optimizing their page load times, which is why Viafoura works to ensure that we minimize the impact our solutions and tools have…

Dan SeamanFebruary 20, 2018

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Advance Local selects Viafoura to power engagement and moderation

Spanning the full network of Advance Local, Viafoura will power and moderate online engagement for regional websites owned by the media company. Specifically, Viafoura will provide real-time commenting and full service moderation in order to…

Jesse MoeinifarJanuary 18, 2018

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Digital Engagement and Adapting to Change

Viafoura's Director of Product - Engagement Tools, Dan Seaman joined Shari Medini on the Push Pull Sales & Marketing podcast, where they discussed the importance of adapting to changing traditional…

Dan SeamanJanuary 11, 2018

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[Webinar On-Demand] EU GDPR: A Snapshot of What Media Organizations Need to Know

All media organizations with any audience presence in the EU will be heavily influenced by the GDPR requirements, and implementing new standards with no prior precedent to follow can be…

Jesse MoeinifarJanuary 4, 2018

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Viafoura Releases Next Generation Viafoura Engagement Cloud for Media Companies

TORONTO (August 23, 2017): Viafoura, a leader in engagement, commenting and moderation tools, today announces the release of its upgraded Next Generation Engagement Cloud. Optimized to encourage audience participation, registration…

ViafouraAugust 23, 2017

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Pelmorex Selects Viafoura to Bring Commenting Back to The Weather Network

Pelmorex Media Inc. owns some of the most popular weather-forecasting websites, apps, and television networks, including The Weather Network and MétéoMédia. With millions of weekly users, their websites faced unwanted…

Jesse MoeinifarJuly 20, 2017

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Native Push Notifications on macOS for Chrome

Browser-based push notifications, which we released as part of our new Audience Engagement suite, have proven to be an incredibly powerful new channel for directly communicating with audiences. By allowing…

Dan SeamanJuly 4, 2017

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CBC and The Weather Network Discuss Online Commenting

In the RTDNA session, Commentary, Commenting and Diversifying Your Voices, our Head of Marketing, Allison Munro, moderated a conversation with news media executives from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and…

Alexandra BaccellieriJune 11, 2017

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Driving SEO with User Generated Content

Viafoura is your partner in audience development and as such, we take SEO very seriously. We are one of the only major commenting and engagement platforms that natively support search…

Dan SeamanMay 9, 2017

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Viafoura helps empower Graham Media Group Online Communities

Graham Media Group implements the Viafoura Viafoura Engagement Cloud across its seven digital properties to uphold its commitment to celebrating local communities and giving voice to the stories that matter.…

Barbara BettsApril 20, 2017

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Your Comment Section, Your Ads, Your Revenue

There's one question that we often hear: “Do you offer a revenue-share for ads that display within your commenting platform?” The answer is simple, we don’t. We believe your high-value…

Jesse MoeinifarApril 11, 2017

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Engaging News Project: What Audiences Want from Comments

In a recent survey by the Engaging News Project, over 12,000 commenters from 20 different news sites opened up about their commenting behavior and preferences. To make the comment section work…

Jesse MoeinifarFebruary 2, 2017