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Tribune Media Services to Launch Multiple Purchase Options Through New Online Catalog
Monday 15. September 2008 - Enhancements to delivery platform increase access to TMS content
Tribune Media Services (TMS), a global content-licensing agency, today announced at the Online News Association Conference a new, Web-based content catalog and enhanced delivery platform (tmsfeatures.com) for print and online publishers, and the mobile and commercial markets. Through the site, TMS will provide its media customers with multiple publishing solutions that help deliver quality media products to their audiences.
TMS’ new online catalog offers more than 150 name-brand features. Media customers, in addition to purchasing these by subscription or as individual columns and articles, have an option to get access to the entire catalog for one annual fee. Also, niche and specialty publishers can download and pay for topic-specific articles and images on the site. Whatever a publisher’s business objectives, TMS can create customized content programs to meet their needs.
The online catalog, powered by Clickability, includes columnists Garrison Keillor, Cal Thomas, Arianna Huffington, Rick Steves, Amy Dickinson, Leonard Pitts, Henry Kissinger, Samantha Power and Wolfgang Puck; McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, Kiplinger Consumer News and USA Today; Rolling Stone, New York, Atlantic and Foreign Affairs magazines; and Jumble(R), crossword and sudoku puzzles. TMS’ catalog also features comics, editorial cartoons, photos, graphics, illustrations and an array of features that inform consumers and attract advertisers in areas such as advice, health, travel, real estate, food, entertainment and personal finance.
The TMS delivery platform offers several options based on the publishing solution. The domestic and international delivery sites provide a secure and convenient way to find and download subscription content. Customers can receive content via e-mail, RSS feeds or custom FTP delivery.
TMS’ all-inclusive, one-fee access to our entire catalog is designed to deliver content directly into the publisher’s editorial system. This delivery option contains powerful search capabilities and personalization options that make finding and saving content easy.
Niche and specialty publishers can access an area of the site where they can browse and preview topic-specific content (cars, education, employment, entertainment, family, finance, food, health and fitness, holidays, home and garden, how-to, lifestyle, outdoors/recreation, parenting, pets, real estate, seniors and weddings) and then download and purchase text and images with a credit card.
“TMS has a 92-year history of aggregating and distributing a wide range of news and features to media customers,” said David D. Williams, President and CEO of TMS. “Our new publishing solutions combined with the online catalog and delivery platform address the industry needs today.”
“We can work with a publisher of any type and any budget level to get them the content their audiences want, in formats, and via the delivery method they choose,” added Williams.
TMS continues to license its popular cartoon characters, puzzles and content from renowned creators for print, interactive, TV and film, mobile and board games, as well as grant permission to reprint any of its content to websites, newsletters, book publishers and corporations.