Press Daily
Local news subscription platform with paywall, push notifications and audio articles.
Local newspapers are dying because their digital experience is a Wordpress theme from 2014 with twenty ad slots. Readers are willing to pay £5 a month for a real product.
A modern reader app with a clean paywall, push for breaking local stories, audio for the commute, and a clean comment section that respects the reader.
Demo signed off. First newsroom pilot in negotiation.
The story behind the build.
The editor had been running the site off Wordpress for nine years. She had 8,000 monthly readers and zero paying subscribers. We mocked up a paywall flow, a push system and audio articles to give her something worth subscribing to.
Features that matter.
Article subscription paywall with grace article
Push notification on breaking local story
Audio article playback (TTS)
Comment section with verified-subscriber badge
Local event listings tied to articles
Email digest builder, daily and weekly
