25+ Content Distribution Channels for Modern Media Organizations
These are the channels that modern publishers use to distribute content.
News Distribution Channels
Apple News
Apple News is a mobile app and news aggregator developed by Apple Inc., for its iOS, watchOS, and macOS operating systems. sd
Google News
Google News is a news aggregator app developed by Google. It presents a continuous, customizable flow of articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines.
Dailyhunt
Dailyhunt is a mobile application that provides local language content in 14 Indian languages from over 1000+ content providers.
Yahoo! news
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by a Yahoo! software engineer named Brad Clawsie in August of 1996.
Hacker news
Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator.
All top
AllTop aggregates all of the top news and information in real time.
Indo Asian News Service (IANS)
Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency. The IANS was founded by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the India Abroad News Service. It was later renamed the Indo-Asian News Service.
Audio Distribution channels
Soundcloud
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform and music sharing website based in Berlin, Germany that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio.
Podcasts
A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download in order to listen. Alternatively, the word "podcast" may refer to the individual component of such a series or to an individual media file.
Alexa
Amazon Alexa, known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon, first used in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers developed by Amazon Lab126.
Anchor
Anchor is the easiest way to make a podcast, ever. It's the only app that lets you record a high-quality podcast, and distribute it everywhere (including Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts) – all in one place.
Spotify
Spotify Technology S.A. is a media-services provider founded in 2006 in Sweden and now incorporated in Luxembourg. The company's primary business is its audio streaming platform that provides DRM-protected music and podcasts from record labels and media companies.
Audioboom
AudioBoom PLC is an on-demand audio and podcasting distribution platform. AudioBoom offers business-to-business services to the radio, media and podcast industries.
Push Notification Channels
Moengage
MoEngage is a customer engagement platform, headquartered in San Francisco, United States with offices in Bengaluru, Jakarta, London, and Berlin, founded in 2014.
Onesignal
OneSignal is a high volume and reliable push notification service for websites and mobile applications.
iZooto
iZooto is a customer retention and engagement application that uses web push notification to help businesses retain existing customers, boost lead generation, increase traffic, and drive sales. The platform allows businesses to create and send personalized notifications to their customers and web users using their mobile devices and desktops.
Email Distribution Channels
Sendgrid
SendGrid is a Denver, Colorado-based customer communication platform for transactional and marketing email. The company was founded by Isaac Saldana, Jose Lopez, and Tim Jenkins in 2009, and incubated through the TechStars accelerator program.
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a marketing automation platform and an email marketing service. The platform is a trading name of its operator, Rocket Science Group, an American company founded in 2001 by Ben Chestnut and Mark Armstrong, with Dan Kurzius joining at a later date.
Mandrillapp
Mandrill is a reliable, scalable, and secure delivery API for transactional emails from websites and applications.Mautic
Mautic
Mautic provides free and open source marketing automation software available to everyone.
Video Distribution Channels
Youtube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005.
Vimeo
Vimeo is an ad-free video platform headquartered in New York City, providing free video viewing services as a competitor to YouTube. In 2007, Vimeo became the first video sharing site to support high-definition video.
Dailymotion
Dailymotion is a European video-sharing technology platform primarily owned by Vivendi. North American launch partners included BBC News, VICE, Bloomberg, and Hearst Digital Media. Dailymotion is available worldwide in 25 languages and 43 localised versions featuring local home pages and local content.
Brightcove
Brightcove, Inc. is a Boston, Massachusetts–based software company that produces an online video platform.
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting service and video hosting service. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004. It has changed ownership several times and has been owned by SmugMug since April 20, 2018.
Metacafe
Metacafe is a video-sharing website that specializes in short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV. The company was headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in Los Angeles.
Vine
Vine was a short-form video hosting service on which users shared six-second-long, looping video clips.
Periscope
Periscope is a live video streaming app for Android and iOS developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein and acquired by Twitter before launch in 2015.
LiveLeak
LiveLeak is a video sharing website headquartered in London. The site was founded on 31 October 2006,in part by the team behind the Ogrish.com shock site, which closed on the same day.
Veoh
Veoh is an Internet television company based in San Diego, California. It allows users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli start-up Qlipso.
Social Media Distribution Channels
Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Facebook instant articles
Instant Articles are articles from your site that load faster because they're hosted on Facebook.
Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. F
Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by Automattic.
Instagram from Facebook or simply Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.