Bright Sites
Next-gen publishing technology
Bright Sites empowers publishers with two core products designed for the modern, digital landscape: Storycue, an AI-powered audience recommendation and planning tool, and Flow, an innovative, revenue-driven CMS used by some of the UK’s largest publishers optimised to support subscription and AI bot revenue.
1. Storycue: plan better, publish smarter
Storycue is an AI-integrated planning and research tool designed to supercharge audience growth. It allows editorial teams to research topics before commissioning content, ensuring every piece has a clear opportunity for success.
- Strategic advantage: Identify missing opportunities and determine exactly what to publish to capture them.
- Data-driven: Creates content plans based on publication data, competitor insights, and real-time trends.
- Predictive power: Uses historic data to make smart publishing predictions.
- The goal: Create faster, plan better, publish smarter.
2. Flow: the ultimate revenue-first CMS
Whether you run a single niche site or 150+ publications, Flow is a capacity-efficient platform designed to optimise editorial workflows and maximise revenue.
- Proven scale & trust: Flow underpins major publishers with global reach, including The Independent, Iconic Media Group, Evening Standard, and Tindle. The platform currently delivers over one billion pageviews per month.
- Seamless onboarding: Bright Sites has over a decade of experience tackling the industry’s biggest pain point: migration. We believe migration should be risk-free and straightforward: our process is quick, stress-free, and handles complex data imports effortlessly.
Key features & capabilities:
- Global & local scale: Supports multi-publication setups with content translation, localisation, and publication groups.
- AI-driven performance: Features intelligent, real-time optimisation suggestions, bespoke trend analysis, and fast content creation tools.
- Revenue generation: Includes a built-in eCommerce platform with affiliate link management, an ad manager, and commercial templates.
- Modern content formats: Supports video integration, live blogs, visual stories, podcasts and a range of templates to engage modern audiences.
- Elite performance: Ensures fast websites that meet Google’s Core Web Vital scores, backed by fast servers, and a global CDN.
Our partnership model
We are passionate about quality and helping clients achieve their goals. Using Agile methodology, we deliver improvements and features in real-time.
- Collaborative innovation: We hold regular workshops to align with your specific goals.
- Data-led testing: We provide prototypes of new ideas and A/B test them with small traffic segments to validate improvements before full rollout.
