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.


Easy Migrations — the Re-Platform Remastered

We create growth with every re-platform. And it doesn't take months, it takes hours or days. We can suck up a WordPress site, optimize its page speed, the user experience, the balance of ads, and how you monetize. We do it in our sleep now.

We are simply the best in the world at this and have taken it to another level.

You'll grow in SEO, you'll grow in social, you'll grow in return users, you'll grow in the amount your users share, and that will, in turn, grow your total audience.

We can set up test environments you send traffic to and show the dramatic comparison. We create growth.

A Better Experience for Readers — Social UX for Media

Everybody is building media sites wrong. We make it look simple. All the hard technology is at work behind the scenes. For readers, your content shines, is shareable, and your website becomes a rabbit hole that pulls users into more content that creates more sharing.

Better Social Distribution Tools — Cross-Platform Reach

It isn't just about publishing. There's a new content life cycle on the internet that leads to fast organic growth at dramatically lower cost. The key is understanding how to use social to your advantage instead of being lost in the noise. RebelMouse is a contagious media company, and the software turns organic growth into an efficient, repeatable, and scalable process.

Better Authoring Tools

Your writers, editors, creators, and community deserve tools that make them fast and efficient. It's also important that they follow a process that leads to best practices, so that the CMS itself is training your team with every post as they onboard.

Grabbing social content, building listicles and slideshows — RebelMouse makes everything simple, clean, and easy for writers.

Analytics and Management Tools

But it's also important for you to manage your writers, see their performance, enable them to learn from each other, and help them become data driven. RebelMouse analytics provide you with a clear view of who is performing, what posts are working, and where that content is gaining traction.

We also have deep Google Analytics integration, so you can easily add in components, promos, third-party units, and ad units. But most importantly, as they're being added, they are set up in staged environments automatically, and the traffic performance from these tests can be traced back to impact on bounce rate, pages/session, session duration, number of shares, percent of shares per visit, and unique custom goals for your business.

You might have the feeling we could go on a bit longer. We could! This is a passion for us. Come talk to us and let's get growing together.

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How Axios Built on RebelMouse

The Axios founding team is composed of the industry veterans who built Politico and shaped The New York Times. They had a vision for building a next-generation media site that would not only win in the world of social, but would also build real loyalty and a subscriber base.

Industry: News Media
Headquarters: Washington, DC
Website: Axios.com

Axios is a new media company delivering vital, trustworthy news and analysis in the most efficient, illuminating, and shareable ways possible. They offer a mix of original and smartly narrated coverage of media trends, tech, business, and politics with expertise, voice, and smart brevity — on a new and innovative mobile platform.



With some of the best writers in the world, Axios knew that, to be successful, they would need to provide next-generation authoring tools as well as a next-generation front-end experience for their readers.

Project Requirements:

  • Get to launch quickly while still having tremendous depth in technology
  • Build a next-generation media property
  • Empower editors with technology for breaking news
  • Build a CMS that manages and elegantly assembles content into articles
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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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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!

See it all in action here:

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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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Are You Maximizing Your Content?

Five years ago, a checklist to make sure you were doing the most to maximize your content would have been a lot more simple. It would be full of best practices like replying to every comment, using CTAs, and diversifying content across platforms. All of those are still important, but the social sphere is a lot more complex now, and we're able to reach new audiences like never before.

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Introducing Rebels for Good

Culture is malleable. It is ideas that change culture. Ideas have never spread so fast. It's possible for us to use the power of understanding how ideas can spread to help the good ones flourish. We live in a time with an increasingly dire and overwhelmingly important battle between good and evil. Trump and other political leaders amass power by spreading hate and ideas that cause emotional fear and panic.

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Twitter Makes Switch to Google AMP

Twitter has officially shifted to Google's AMP format on its mobile app for both iOS and Android, eliminating the platform's previous, slower mobile viewing pages.

At the Google I/O conference in May 2017, representatives announced that Google AMP pages load twice as fast as traditional links from Google search. It was also during that conference when Twitter officials announced that they planned to make the switch to AMP for their native app. Now that the rollout is underway, publishers are already experiencing the boost.

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