Headless CMS
Find out everything you need to know about headless CMS architecture and the questions decision makers need to ask when considering headless CMS for their organizations. Brightspot’s extensible architecture means you can publish how you want — headless or decoupled — all from the same environment.
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What are the pros and cons of headless CMS vs. other CMS architecture approaches?
Explore headless CMS pros and cons, including scalability, content reuse and implementation challenges. A practical guide for teams planning modern CMS architecture.
Headless CMS guide
Find out everything you need to know about headless CMS architecture and the questions to ask when considering headless CMS as the solution for your business.
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How headless-first thinking can lead to a CMS hangover
Headless and composable architectures were meant to simplify digital operations. In practice, they often expose a deeper problem: technology decisions made without organizational design.
ALM: Unifying dozens of legal publications with Law.com’s headless CMS
ALM transitioned from a heavily customized WordPress CMS to Brightspot’s headless CMS, simplifying publishing and enhancing front-end flexibility.
Headless CMS: Everything you need to know to benefit your business
Learn about headless CMS: a modern architecture that allows digital teams to adapt to new technology and deliver content across multiple channels.
Banner Solutions: Delivering the winning formula for content and commerce integration
Banner Solutions sought a new e-commerce platform that could overcome limitations, support individual channels and deliver an engaging user experience. After evaluating options like Adobe Experience Manager and Drupal, Banner Solutions chose Brightspot for its flexibility and seamless integration capabilities.
CoStar: Delivering the story behind the data for the largest source of commercial real estate intelligence
To achieve its vision of being a leader in commercial real estate news, CoStar needed a platform that could support its fast-growing team of writers and editors alongside the need for sophisticated publishing workflows and the ability to integrate seamlessly with CoStar’s proprietary ecosystem of data sources.
Whole Foods: Delivering brand-storytelling innovation with a headless CMS implementation
Following its acquisition by Amazon, Whole Foods delivered on its brand promise with an engaging content-as-commerce approach built on a new API-powered headless CMS platform.
SBS Australia: Delivering diverse digital experiences to multicultural Australian audiences with a headless CMS implementation
Leading Australian broadcaster SBS consolidated its content-management approach onto one enterprise CMS that could support flexible, multilanguage programming and drive greater publishing efficiency for its content teams.
Lionsgate: Headless CMS delivery for one of the entertainment world’s leading studios
The Los Angeles-based studio needed a content platform to support its redesigned front-end experience. With Brightspot’s headless CMS, the entertainment giant can rapidly publish content to its website and dedicated microsites for its portfolio of blockbuster movies and TV shows.
How headless content management empowers content teams
Unlock the power of headless CMS to streamline your content delivery and boost team productivity across all digital channels. Discover how separating content management from presentation lets your teams focus on what matters most — creating engaging content that reaches audiences wherever they are.
How the right headless CMS can speed up your digital transformation
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, a headless CMS offers the speed, flexibility and efficiency businesses need to accelerate their digital transformation. Brightspot goes beyond standard headless solutions, empowering both developers and content teams with unmatched modularity, intuitive authoring tools and seamless integrations — ensuring organizations are not just future-ready, but future-proof.
Headless CMS explained: 11 common questions answered
Understand how headless CMS works, how it differs from traditional and decoupled architectures, and whether Brightspot’s hybrid-headless approach fits your organization.
What’s the difference between an API-only vs. API-first approach?
Take a technical deep dive on CMS architecture and the role that APIs play, including the distinction between API-only versus API-first system design.
How to create, extend and change a content data model using a headless CMS
Finding the right CMS means ensuring it can adapt to your organization’s unique needs. Brightspot’s extensible architecture allows you to create, extend, or modify content data models—whether by adding new content types, customizing existing ones, or adjusting fields—all while maintaining a seamless and scalable experience.
Mattress Firm: How the e-retailer modernized its digital presence with CMS relaunch
While Mattress Firm’s brick-and-mortar stores are recognizable to many Americans, the company has recognized the importance of bolstering its digital presence, as have many traditional retailers. To enhance its online footprint, Mattress Firm collaborated with Brightspot to revamp both MattressFirm.com and its blog, The Daily Doze.
GraphQL vs. REST: Choosing the right API for your CMS
GraphQL offers a structured, efficient alternative to REST, making API-based CMS more powerful and flexible. Learn how it enhances content delivery and management.
Overcoming the challenges of headless CMS: How Brightspot is innovating with GraphQL
Discover the pros and cons of a headless CMS with GraphQL and learn how Brightspot has developed innovative solutions to tackle four primary issues associated with it.
POLITICO: Reporting news across the globe with personalized, real-time capabilities
With Brightspot, POLITICO has achieved its global ambition: deliver customized content, in real time, to every user on any device.
Televisa: Smoother publishing and cost savings with a headless multisite CMS
With Brightspot as its back end, Televisa today manages nine sites — eight of which are headless — from one CMS. Find out how it works.
Univision: Delivering innovative branded content to millions
Brightspot enables Univision to deliver up-to-the-minute news and entertainment across a diverse digital portfolio to millions of Hispanic Americans.