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.

Brightspot, a leading content management system, has been named a "Hot Vendor" in the content experience platform (CXP) market by Aragon Research. Brightspot will be recognized alongside all other Hot Vendors at the Aragon Transform event in December 2021.
Brightspot CMS will enable international KPS customers to scale quickly, accommodate complex workflows.
Brightspot announced today that it has been named to The Washington Post’s Top Workplaces 2021 list, which recognizes companies in the D.C. area with the highest ratings from their employees.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper launched a new latimes.com powered by GrapheneCMS, a revolutionary, cloud-enabled content management system developed on the Brightspot CMS, with strategic partner NantMedia’s California Times and NantWorks.
Mexico’s TV Azteca, the country’s second-largest media company behind Televisa and one of the top producers of Spanish-language television programming in the world, relaunched six sites and six headless apps on Brightspot.
Our partnership has resulted in two distinctions: Inclusion in the Digital Customer Experience Competency & Advanced Technology Partner. Learn why that matters.
WGBH, the nation’s preeminent public media company, has relaunched two separate websites on one powerful CMS. The new modern CMS platform, Brightspot, empowers WGBH to accomplish their two main digital goals: serve a diverse audience with a wide variety of media offerings and communicate the organization’s mission and values to their audiences, members, key constituents, and the general public.
Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most innovative companies, provides $8 million to accommodate growth and innovation.
Hallmark Channel, a Brightspot customer since 2014, was awarded Best Overall Website and Best Website Redesign.
We’re excited to announce that Brightspot has successfully renewed our SOC 2 Type II certification for our Managed Services, which includes Brightspot CMS as well as our cloud management tool, Gyro.
The Washington Post profiles Brightspot and talks about how it differentiates itself through speed and quality.

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.

Careers

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