Comparison Guide : Bold vs m360
Comparison

Comparison Guide : Bold vs m360

Comparing two powerful CMSs Bold and M360 for publishers to find their pick
Published on: 
Updated on: 
2 min read

Looking for an alternative to M360? Quintype offers a suite of products for news media organizations to create, curate, publish, and monetize content with ease. Quintype empowers digital publishers with SaaS solutions that solves tech challenges in content management, audience engagement and monetization.


Moving to a better content management system is often necessary to scale your digital publishing business. We’ve been asked how Quintype’s CMS (Bold) and monetization solutions compare to M360.


We’ve put together a quick overview of the differences between Bold CMS and M360.

Top features for bold and m360

Features Bold M360
Custom editorial workflow Yes Yes
Content Structure  Cardified
Mobile-responsive back-end CMS Yes No
Granular access control Yes No, only four roles available 
Paywall support
 Yes, native integration with Accesstype
 Third party support 
Built-in content categorisation
 Card attributes, Story attributes, Tags, Sections, Collections and entities
  
Native SEO  Yes
Yes
 Hosting Hosting with DDoS protection, CDN and caching with 99.5% uptime guarantee.
Hosting available with multiple providers from Godaddy to AWS.
Front-end support
Ahead with page builder to manage branding and layouts at no additional cost. Built in PWA and add-on native mobile apps.

 They have a limited number of themes available on the platform.

 







Why choose Bold over M360?

M360 is a fairly new SaaS-based platform that has its limitations with the features. It is designed to integrate comprehensive publishing capabilities with a seamless experience. It is available at a competitive price along with a cost-efficient ad revenue share.

Bold a headless cms has been lauded for its ability to support multiple concurrent users, faster search, and better front-end support for multiple screens and screenless devices.

Other comparisons of Bold CMS vs. M360 include:

  • Content for all devices - PWA, Mobile App, Smart speakers

  • Optimized for search engine optimization - Sitemaps, schema, canonicals, AMP, Social tags

  • Integrate with any 3rd party tools tailored to your business needs including Copyscape, push notifications, email subscriptions, and more

  • Story templates and multiple story types including photos, videos, and live blogging.

  • In-built Analytics to analyze the performance of stories, authors, and topics.

  • Live preview of the story on multiple devices.

On pricing, while M360 has competitive prices they follow the ad revenue share model. That has advantages and disadvantages.


Quintype’s pricing is all-inclusive of the Bold CMS, hosting, front-end infrastructure, security, and front-end framework - Ahead. With economies of scale, Quintype democratizes technologies used by the largest media companies to empower growing publishers to focus on content while leaving the technology-heavy lifting to us.

The additional advantage of not having to hire and maintain technology teams reduces the total cost of ownership when compared with WordPress.

Key similarities between m360 and Bold

  • Auto publish on social channels

  • Facebook Instant Articles

  • AMP story support

  • Auto-scaling infrastructure

  • Security

  • Automatic maintenance updates and security patches

Get in touch with us to schedule a demo of Quintype’s suite of publishing tools.

Quintype
blog.quintype.com