Perfect for publishers, agencies and enterprises
Users spend 90% of their time in apps
Mobile media is redefining how we read, view and are entertained. For news and many kinds of content mobile today is the default device of choice not the laptop. A trend that is a fundamental, generational change.
Responsive websites are great for driving initial awareness and engagement on mobile. But if you want to establish an ongoing, long lasting relationship to your closest and most important users, native apps are the go to solution.
Apps offer faster access to content, smoother interactions and a superior user experience. They can send push messages that keep customers engaged, app icons are visible when a user explores their phone, keeping your brand awareness high.
No doubt users prefer great native apps to consume content and communicate with others.
Your own branded news app
Many publishers fear challenges connected to managing necessary resources or made bad experiences with high costs for app development. This where tchop´s app-as-a-service comes into play!
tchop™ is a turnkey solution that empowers any enterprise, agency or publisher to create highly effective and fully customised native apps in record time. We offer rich functionality out of the box, enabling you to launch a news driven app with all of the features your customers have come to expect:
Manage your content from a simple user and mobile friendly CMS
Integrate existing content and news feeds with a few clicks
Separate free and paid content via built-in user management
Engage users with rich content such as GIFs or native video
Monitor success with a custom analytics dashboard
Our core platform enables you to take your app to market and then evolve and build on it over time. We use a modular approach so you can gradually enable advanced features such as real time chat to keep users actively engaged.
Integrate existing feeds and sources
As our platform is built around the idea of curation, tchop seamlessly integrates with existing systems. Your team can continue working with the existing tools without evening touching the tchop platform in their daily routine. Or it can use the tchop CMS to easily curate content on top or add app specific features like push notes.
tchop™ can automatically parse content feeds on basis of a variety of standard integrations:
RSS feeds- Scraping of new links from a website (also your own)
- Social Media Content from Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
You can fully automate import and publication of these contents, which means also small teams are empowered to do great things. And in case there´s something missing: thanks to our API´s it is easy to build custom integrations and adjust to custom requirements.
Of course editors can also manually import links, social posts, photos or videos directly from their smartphone, also out of other apps via our sharing extension. Mobile content curation on the go!
Editorial meets Social
tchop™ bietet darüber hinaus Features, die aus einem klassischen News-Angebot eine echte Community mit Möglichkeiten zum direkten Austausch machen. Die mobile Einfachheit und Stärke eines Sozialen Netzwerks lässt sich dabei mit den Vorteilen eines hochwertigen Content-Angebots dynamisch kombinieren, wobei Sie als Anbieter und Redaktion immer die Kontrolle behalten.
Offene oder geschlossene Chat-Gruppen
Vertrauliche 1:1 Chats- User Generated Community Content
Mobile Leserreporter
Inhalte können direkt in der App hochgeladen, diskutiert und kommentiert werden, wobei Sie anhand eines flexiblen Rollen- und Rechtesystems bestimmen wie weit dies geht. Sie können in einen direkten Austausch mit allen oder einzelnen Nutzern treten und durch diese Massnahmen gezielt die Nutzerbindung optimieren, denn mit jeder Chat-Nachricht bekommen Nutzer zugleich - wie bei WhatsApp&Co eine Push Meldung!
Flexibility at its core
Our platform´s functionality has been built in line with industry best practice and design guidelines. However, it is possible to extend or replace every screen to produce something more bespoke. Here are some examples of custom requirements that we have already implemented and which are easy to use for you:
Innovative UI/UX concepts (like "tinder-style" swipeable content cards)
Native Ads via Google SDKs (Admob or DFP) or other ad providers
Connect to a custom SSO (to manage user access)
Third Party Push SDKs (like OneSignal)- Custom tracking tools and requirements
You can implement these custom features on your own on basis of our code. Or we can handle that for you in separate branches, where you enjoy full freedom. In any case you will benefit from future improvement and technical developments of our core platform.
Test run with a few
tchop™ lets you prepare and launch a test run within days. Thanks to the set of standard integrations you can import news feeds with a few clicks.
We´re happy to help with our experience from many news app projects and use cases. Thanks to our analytics dashboard you can find out what engages your users and what kind of information they seek.
Summary
tchop™ is the turnkey solution to provide high-quality mobile news experiences to your users without investing into own app development resources. With it´s flexible content structure it is perfect to cover the needs of both special interest news cases, regional publishers and content marketing providers alike.
The fact that tchop™ easily integrates with your existing content management systems and platforms,
