Brightspot news & awards

Stay up to date on all of the happenings here at Brightspot—our company announcements, awards we've received, our amazing people, our mission work and, of course, our customers.

Developers can now build bespoke solutions on top of Brightspot’s user-friendly content management system platform to more effectively meet companies’ content creation and management needs.
Brightspot's new content management system integration empowers users to create and personalize content with unprecedented speed and precision.
Brightspot is excited to announce it has been nominated as one of 2023's "Top 10 Media and Entertainment Solutions Companies" by CIOReview.
Using Brightspot CMS, Brightspot partners can leverage the freedom to choose any front-end technology, including headless builds, while also giving their customers an industry-leading end-user experience with native capabilities not offered by many solution providers.
Backed by the speed, flexibility and out-of-the-box simplicity of Brightspot, the Torridon Group, led by former U.S. Attorney General William Barr and former Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot, has unveiled its new digital presence at www.thetorridongroup.com. The new website showcases the firm's legal and consulting services.
Today is a big day at Brightspot. I am handing off the CEO role to a new executive (more on that in a bit) and taking on a new role as President and Chief Customer Officer. I am excited to continue my work at the company, building on our strong foundation as we move forward into the next decade.
B2B and B2C software leader joins Brightspot, partnering with established team for long-term growth
Forrester, a leading global research and advisory firm, has recognized Brightspot among 31 agile CMSs in its "Now Tech: Agile Content Management Systems, Q2 2022" report.
Initiated in November 2021, the digital home for DispatchHealth got a major upgrade in January 2022. The DispatchHealth.com site was migrated off WordPress in less than two months.
Brightspot has partnered with Tailwind Capital to help accelerate the company’s growth. As part of the next phase of growth, new funding will be leveraged for Brightspot’s developer and partner program expansion.
Brightspot has won Best Content Management System in the 2021 Digiday Technology Awards, a premier industry competition that recognizes companies advancing the digital media industry by fostering tech-focused innovation. This is the second year in a row Brightspot has received the award.

Brightspot in the press

Enjoy a collection of recent coverage of our announcements and activities from the press.
Brightspot's Chief Technology Officer shares his technology predictions for 2022 with VMblog.
Rochester, Minnesota-based newspaper Post Bulletin announced the relaunch of its webbsite, powered by Brightspot. The Post Bulletin editor, Jeff Pieters, writes: "What’s nice about this CMS, called Brightspot, is that it’s simpler to use and gives us more ability to customize how our stories are presented to you. The software vendor offers better customer support than we have had previously, too."
VMblog recently spoke with Omavi Walker, Senior Software Engineer at Brightspot, to learn more about the company, and to dive deeper into GraphQL and how it contributes to a headless CMS solution.
Lee Teague, Brightspot SVP of Engineering, shares his thoughts on headless CMS and its benefits with MarTech Series.
Read this Forbes interview with our CEO David Gang where he talks about Brightspot and the future of the workplace.
In a world filled with hundreds of digital channels, and dozens of types of devices, ZDNet explores how Brightspot is "supercharging and modernizing" traditional approaches to enterprise content management.

Simplified task management, storytelling capabilities and seamless communication all contribute to building an effective community and culture experience. Brightspot CEO and co-founder David Gang expands in this article for ClickZ.
Read about how Special Olympics is leveraging Brightspot, Falcon and EveryAction to support programs for athletes, donors and volunteers.
New redesigned online web experiences, powered by Brightspot, promise more personalized, seamless and immersive engagement.

Brightspot CEO and co-founder David Gang explains how to implement a headless CMS platform to enhance digital transformation and the importance of speed and easy integrations in relation to accessible content.
Omavi Walker, Senior Software Engineer at Brightspot, speaks with App Developer Magazine about the evolution of content marketing systems and the benefits of a headless versus decoupled CMS.
David Gang, Brightspot CEO and Co-founder, offers some insights into 2020 content management trends and what lies ahead.
Our VP of Product shares a few key elements that a tech stack needs to set marketers up for success.

Authority Magazine interviews our Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer Lisa Beaudoin about her accomplished career in technology.
Our VP of Product talks with Practical Ecommerce about how retailers and eCommerce brands need to think like publishers to grow revenue and customer engagement.
Our VP of Product shares actionable insights for today’s marketing and IT teams on how to implement a headless CMS platform to enhance digital transformation.
The decision to rebrand is more than a name change. Read about it on MarTech Series.
After 12 years, our company adopted the name of its platform, learn more about why on MarTech Today.
Learn more about our internal communications efforts during these unprecedented times on VMBlog.
Read about the Brightspot relaunch of Caracol TV on Bloomberg.
Read about Brightspot's impact on media companies on CIO Review.
Read what our VP of Product has to say on the subject on CMSWire.
Read about our power tool, Gyro on DevOps.com.
Read about NPR's recent migration to Brightspot on Current.

Customer success stories

Learn about how Brightspot has partnered with some of world's best brands to drive their businesses forward.
Previously hosted on Drupal and two other platforms, Australia's multilingual public-service broadcaster, Special Broadcasting Service, is now able to deliver to its front-end head via Brightspot headless CMS.
The countdown for Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023 has begun. And that countdown clock lives on the new digital home for the Berlin 2023 games, powered by Brightspot CMS.
Find out how Walmart uses horizontal storytelling to connect with their audience and instill belief in the brand.

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