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Why RebelMouse? The Best Centralized, Social CMS

RebelMouse is the best CMS for social growth, with a platform built for content creators to thrive in the age of social. See how we got here + how you can join us and start growing within days!

Chances are that the CMS you work in every day was built before social — before the idea of distributed content was even coined. Even though publishing has changed dramatically, a lot of that heavy and outdated tech still exists today.

For example, WordPress has more than 87 million sites, but each platform update still has to be pushed out individually to each and every one of those customers. By contrast, RebelMouse is a centralized CMS, meaning our updates are pushed out to all of our sites at once (and sometimes even multiple times a day). We are always updating and integrating which is why we are quickly becoming the most sought-after alternative to WordPress VIP, with a platform that features content creation tools integrated directly into social APIs.

Websites became a part of our lives long before the revelation that fans are born in the feeds. The opportunity to reach huge social audiences is now, but that doesn't mean the website is dead. Publishing has just evolved.

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Viral Properties Choose RebelMouse

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Meet the RebelMouse Particle Accelerator

The core unit of content on the web used to be the article. Whether you called it a post, blog, article, or column, it's always been your core content. You created it and measured its performance. It's what fueled you to go viral.

Social has completely changed that paradigm.

Now, the core unit is much smaller. It's a Facebook video, an Instagram post, a tweet, a YouTube video, an interactive element, or even just an image. The core unit is now a particle. A particle is — quite literally — part of an article.

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We Build Social Websites with Groundbreaking Technology

RebelMouse's technology is what comes when you are exhausted working within the complicated confines of WordPress. We can replace your website with an intuitive social experience built around content. The core of our product is built around an efficient + fluid content strategy that builds loyal, sticky audiences. We move the needle on everything from social engagement to page views — bringing our clients additional revenue with every publish.

We enable you to keep pace with the ever-evolving technology landscape through our revenue-focused platform engineered to ride the bleeding edge of digital publishing. With RebelMouse, you'll understand the real opportunities new media channels can provide your company, intelligently monetize those opportunities, and empower your entire team to take advantage systematically.

A Technology Partner You Can Trust

We're more than just a software platform, we're your technology partner. We'll always be there to make sure you're always on the inside track so you can focus on creating great, engaging content. RebelMouse is a simple, full stack, turn-key solution that ends your product nightmares, cleans up your bottom line, and gets you growing — fast. And you don't get a static redesign you live with for years — you get a modern, iterative product built to change, built for change, and built from change.

UX/Front End/Tech

  • Social UX for Media
  • Robust Design Tool
  • Massively Scalable
  • Page Speed Optimized
  • Iterative Site Redesigns
  • Integrate 3rd Party JS
  • Insane GA Integration
  • And More...

Distributed Content

  • Social Sharing
  • Social CRM
  • Personalization
  • Google AMP
  • FB Instant Articles
  • Apple News
  • Smart Newsletters
  • And More...

Editorial Tools

  • Creation Tools
  • Listicle Tools
  • A/B Testing
  • Post Layout Config.
  • Slideshow Tools
  • Editorial Workflows
  • Native Stats
  • And More...

Monetization

  • Native Ad Tools
  • Prog. Ad Tools
  • Affiliate Partners
  • DoubleClick/DFP
  • Playbuzz
  • Outbrain
  • Taboola
  • And More...

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RebelMouse vs. WordPress VIP

After building the product for Huffington Post, and owning the product and engineering groups at AOL after we were acquired, it was clear to me there was a huge gap between what the current CMS offering gave the world and what the world needed. Five years later we are at scale, moving the needle and doing to WordPress what Airbnb did to Craigslist.

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Introducing Social UX for Media

Let's get straight to the point. We can double your traffic in 10 Days or Less.

(No, We're not Kidding)

We can do that with something we call Social UX for Media. It's our way of making your site as viral and binge-worthy as the Facebook feed. In fact, you're interacting with Social UX for Media right now on this site. Whether you run a new media site, or a corporate blog, it just WORKS. Check out these stats that one of our customers saw within 10 days of switching from Wordpress.

Every site that we migrate sees the same lift. Every. Single. One. So, when we say we can double your traffic in a week, we mean it.

If you're interested in crushing your engagement metrics, you can quickly get up and running by clicking here to get started with a FREE 2-week trial. If you're not quite ready to start, keep reading to learn more about what makes RebelMouse and Social UX for Media so unique. If you have any questions, feel free to click the chat box in the lower right to talk to a Rebel now. We're here to help.

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Endless Stories

Let your users binge your content. By serving up an endless feed of stories, they're more likely to read more than just the article they originally came for.

In-Feed Article Expansion

You can tell your story in as many or as little words as you need. You can include pictures, video, embeds, slideshows, or build a listicle in a few clicks with our guided listicle tool.

You don't need to worry about length because you can quickly add a fold to the story right in the post editor by placing a horizontal rule where you want the fold you be.

It looks like this when you publish. (Go ahead, click it.)

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In-Feed Article Sharing

Share stories directly from the feed. Activate your readership to engage directly with your content to maximize reach.

Asynchronous Page Views

Take full advantage of binge reading with our SEO-friendly Asynchronous Page View functionality. This function loads post URLs as the reader scrolls from story to story without ever clicking through to an individual post.

Topic Specific Sub-Feeds

Further encourage post binging by linking to topic-specific sub feeds in each post. Providing a pathway for similar content will ensure that a user will consume the maximum amount of content per visit.

Frictionless Monetization

The RebelMouse platform supports core monetization approaches that integrate into and enhance your site's user experience. Naturally integrate native ads and sponsored posts into your post feed to provide a smooth, unobtrusive ad experience for your readers.

Smart Newsletters

Build loyalty and return traffic using smart newsletters to add personalization to your site with little effort. Built right into your normal workflow, we provide you with the tools necessary to get the right content to the right sub-audience with a simple, fast opt-in process for readers.

Publish Everywhere

Go beyond your homepage without leaving the RebelMouse platform. Our distribution tools streamline workflow by allowing you to publish your content to Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP + Apple News before your content is even live. By casting a large web for each story, your audiences will enjoy faster load times + a non-intrusive ad strategy, giving your brand a reputation of quality with a focus on user experience.

Bring Back Organic Traffic

Organic growth is still possible, even on Facebook. Use RebelMouse's built-in social CRM to find new hyper-targeted social communities + influencers. Choose from a spectrum of social signals to build relationships with those pages, whether it's a simple 'like' on a recent post or even an email intro, you will spark partnerships on the foundation of shared content + engagement. Also, fully edit, send + schedule all your social posts directly from the Rebel platform.

Maximize Your Revenue Potential

Efficiently monetize the right opportunities on site and across channels. The RebelMouse platform supports core monetization approaches that integrate into + enhance your site's user experience. Strategically serve simple ad banners for optimal performance + engagement. Prioritize elements of your rich media creative and avoid slow page loads. Easily set up your branded content to stand out and drive eyeballs for marketers.

Built for Design + Performance

Our Layout & Design tool enables you to customize, optimize, and flexibly manage any element of your site. The best part? No matter how you wield the Layout & Design tool, your site will be set up to look beautiful and perform optimally across devices, screen sizes, and platforms.

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Easily Build Multi-Site Properties

RebelMouse makes managing multiple, growing properties simple and does so without the technical debt of alternative solutions. By leveraging RebelMouse's innovative platform, our customers quickly launch new content verticals with a dead-simple process:

  1. Build Your Master Property
  2. Perfect It for Audience and Revenue Through A/B Testing
  3. Easily Clone Your Master Property
  4. Set Content and Feed Rules Between Properties
  5. Set Social Sharing, Mentioning, and Ecosystem Rules

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Building Relationships to Build a Better Future

It's far too easy to get lost in a medley of metrics when you work in digital media. We're guilty of it here too. We harp on client success stories, software updates, audience reach, revenue, and each and every Facebook algorithm update that comes our way all the time.

But there's one thing that really makes us tick here at RebelMouse: The relationships we build with our clients. We pride ourselves on working with brilliant minds as we collectively build a better future through media. We are very open + vocal about our ethics and beliefs here. We fire clients whose morals contradict ours, and hire those whose we support. It's part of what makes it easy to get up and work toward a better future each morning.

This post is dedicated to our beautiful clients, and the love we have for each other. To hear a client sing praise about their appreciation for a Rebel team member gives us just as many goosebumps as seeing an entirely green Google Analytics home page. So here are a few stories that gave us all the feels this week at RebelMouse:

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How One Country Turned a Fan Following into a Monetization Powerhouse

Country isn't a zip code. Country is a state of mind. That's the core strategy behind One Country — a new media company dedicated to celebrating country music culture through not just music, but fashion, food, and lifestyle.

One Country was originally on WordPress before switching to RebelMouse. But after enjoying publishing on the RebelMouse platform for several years, their ownership changed and One Country's future became uncertain. Everyone — including RebelMouse founder Paul Berry, who served on One Country's advisory board at the time — knew One Country was a powerful asset with the potential to turn a loyal following into real revenue.

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PSA: You Could Lose Access to Instant Articles Monetization

Facebook recently updated their Monetization Eligibility Standards, and is now cutting access to monetization features for Instant Articles on Pages that are currently violating the new guidelines.

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NEW: Organize Your Content For Max Success

We're obsessed with optimizing your content for maximum performance both on site and on social. We've added two new features to the RebelMouse platform to help supercharge your audience.

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Your Website Roadmap Is Outdated: Why You Need the RebelMouse Compass

Technology continues to accelerate the way we consume + interact with media. And while media companies are looking for a way to keep up with the times, they're following a roadmap that ultimately leads them nowhere. They're caught in a hamster wheel chasing these ever-changing trends.

What works within the social sphere changes constantly, not to mention fast. We've seen it with the recent big push to video, mobile's domination, paid subscription models, etc. But trends are fickle, and with the constant algorithm updates, platforms steal most of the spotlight — taking focus away from vital audience building and monetization on sites.

RebelMouse was built in the age of social, so we are well equipped to handle these disruptions. Our clients are seeing crazy results amidst the changing social landscape because we've mastered the right mix of strategy + tech to propel them into the future.

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Are You Doing Enough to Monetize Your Website’s Content?

We live in the age of social where Facebook and Google dominate online ads, search, and traffic. If your corporate blog is stuck on an old paradigm, you're being left in the dust. But if your site generates ample traffic and has a loyal audience, your content is valuable and monetizable.

In today's digital world, content consumption and $$$ opportunity goes beyond the website. The question is, are you doing enough to monetize your website everywhere audiences are discovering your content? Here are some things to keep in mind:
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Increase Website Traffic and Performance with RebelMouse

We are the #1 WordPress VIP alternative. RebelMouse was built in the age of social, to keep up with the speed of the tech giants. Unlike WordPress and other custom CMS solutions, RebelMouse is a centralized, social platform that propels clients into the future. Our clients are seeing amazing success when they switch from WordPress to RebelMouse. The stats speak for themselves.

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Why We're Immune to Facebook's Pendulum

Our obsession over methodical traffic and how/why things go viral has allowed our clients to see a constant increase in reach on Facebook. Within the past five months, many publishers have been experiencing another decline in Facebook reach. In fact, reach is down as much as 42% so far this year. It's a trend that persists despite the rise of content championing polarizing stories and social-friendly videos. At RebelMouse, our clients continue to see their Facebook reach increase. We look at changes in the media landscape and platform updates as a challenge and an opportunity.

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Azula Sees 398% Facebook Growth in Switch to RebelMouse

At the end of August 2017, Azula switched to RebelMouse, leaving WordPress in their rear-view mirror. Since then, traffic to their site from Facebook has risen 398%.

Wait, what? How can that be? Aren't publishers supposed to be seeing decreases in traffic from the big blue social media machine? Well, in short, a lot of them are. But it's not because Facebook decided to hurt them or tweak publishers into giving them more money. It's because publishers haven't been able to adapt to platform changes fast enough to avoid the natural traffic penalty of falling behind the times.

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United Hurricane Relief Campaign

Background

United Airlines has worked with their customers, employees, and MileagePlus members to launch a CrowdRise fundraising campaign which has already raised a total of more than $2.8 million to support their humanitarian aid and disaster relief partners: Airlink, the American Red Cross, Americares, Operation USA, the Greater Houston Community Foundation, and the Humane Society International. United has also partnered with Chase card services to provide additional bonus miles to members who donate to those organizations, and has agreed to match the $300,000 in relief already raised for both Hurricane Harvey and Irma. So far, United has committed over seven million bonus miles to their customers who have made donations.

RebelMouse powers United's content hub. Together, we were able to quickly make changes and integrations that highlighted and amplified United's efforts. Our creative agency was able to do the design and coding, as well as work with the (fabulous) CrowdRise team to bring the integration together in a matter of hours.

RebelMouse also worked to create a mobile and accessibility compliant data view of the impact on flights from the hurricanes.

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The Corporate Blog Is the Achilles' Heel of Content Marketing: Fix It

Company blogs have become the Achilles' heel of the content marketing stack. This owned property is key to content marketers being able to spread traffic across different platforms and create loyalty. But while Facebook, Instagram, Google, Snapchat, Twitter, and others are evolving into centralized platforms with massive updates that roll out every quarter, corporate blogs are stuck on an old paradigm.

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Importing to RebelMouse: Technical Guidelines

In order to ingest a client's content into RebelMouse, we must be able to fully parse the site's content. RebelMouse accepts several input formats for content ingestion.

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Summer 2017: 5 Social Trends of the Season

Platforms, users + publishers have a need for speed.

The world of digital has gotten so much more complex. As social bleeds into sites and vice versa, the ecosystem between digital and real life has become even more intertwined. It's even impacting elections.

If there had to be one word to summarize this summer on social it would be speed. Platforms are getting better about delivering content in non-intrusive formats that load before you can blink. Websites are also following the trend of usability and personal experience more than ever. Gossip sites that once delivered articles oversaturated with ads now publish on Instant Articles.

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All the Ways We Grew This Summer

Summer 2017 looked good for RebelMouse.

This past January, our founder and CEO, Paul Berry, decided to close the RebelMouse offices in NYC. Since then, we've been more efficient + collaborative than ever before. We've grown as a creative agency, mastering what it is to work as a fully distributed team around the globe.

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What's Next After Facebook

It's always hard to imagine what is next until suddenly it's dramatically obvious.

It is now completely clear. The first phase of the internet confused freedom of speech with code of conduct. Platforms built through the hard work of good people are being used to spread hate across the world at rates we have never seen before. The largest platforms in the world are now completely toxic. And in our decades of enduring this, the toxicity has become normalized. What women endure online — as an important example — is worth sobbing over (and I honestly hope you do).

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3 Players You Need on Your Team Before Re-Platforming

Getting your content, technology, product, and traffic right is mission critical for any business today. But you especially need to be sure that you have the right team in place to manage changes and make the most of them when you decide it's time to re-platform your site. Here are the three pivotal players you want on your side:

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4 Signs You Should Re-Platform Your Site

Content management systems (CMS) are kind of like the War and Peace of tech. It's a lot of intricate coding, design, and insider baseball that can be tough to fully grasp in one sitting.

If you're a new media company or brand that's just starting out and trying to find a publishing solution that will enhance your day-to-day — rather than slow down the creative — it can be tough to figure out which will give you the least heartache during the launch process. If you already have a CMS in place, then there's probably a greater chance that the platform you're currently using is leaving you frustrated. But even if you've grown weary from your everyday tools, it still can seem even more daunting to re-platform your site entirely.

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Media Companies: Don’t Let Your Traffic Run out the Side Door

The launch of Facebook's Instant Articles left media companies with two choices: (a) integrate deeply with Facebook — fast load times! better experience! — or (b) skip this opportunity and risk falling further behind in the traffic race driven from Facebook. Given that Facebook has become such a huge traffic driver to so many media sites, in reality there's no choice to make. Yet while Facebook and, of course, Google drive significant traffic volume, that traffic is not always the best. It's often to one page only, and for very short sessions (especially on mobile). It doesn't have to be this way.

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Product Updates + Strategy

Every Keyword = New Target Audiences

We're kind of obsessed with social integration + making sure your content travels across platforms seamlessly. So we've added a couple more tools to your distribution arsenal, each designed to enhance reach capabilities even further. Now you can find influencers and target audiences faster with every publish to really set up your stories for success. Here's the lowdown:

  1. Easily add tags inside a user profile. This will allow you to more easily tag and categorize other pages that you collaborate with frequently. With the upgrade, you can do it swiftly by clicking on a suggested target's profile card.
  2. Add tags in the sections and categorization tab. ← The cool thing about this feature is that if a tag is associated with a profile in the "Discovery" section of the platform, it will show that profile as a suggested target. So, for example, if your post is related to "swimming" and you tag it as such, any partners that you have associated with the tag "swimming" in Discovery will appear as suggested targets.

These tools are designed to eliminate the laborious work that goes into finding relevant targets for each story. Every tag equals a new target audience, so make sure to utilize this new feature to uncover a whole new world of influencer potential!

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Now Hiring: Senior Software Developer

We're hiring a talented and motivated engineer to join our development team here at RebelMouse. We want someone who brings value beyond code, truly cares about expressing ideas, and wants their voice to be heard + included. Added bonus if you love scalable solutions, and actively being part of the creative process in making the company more scalable!

We're a small, close-knit team, so you won't be just a cog in the machine. We use Python and Node.js as server backends, Backbone.js and React.js as front-end frameworks, and MongoDB, Redis, and MySQL as data stores.

RebelMouse is a 100% distributed company. Our developers work from 20+ countries and have very flexible schedules. If you don't want to be confined to an office chair, and like the idea of being able to work from any place in the world you choose, we're a match!

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