Realm Digital’s long standing client, Daily Maverick required the development of their new website. Realm Digital was tasked to bring the Daily Maverick vision to life through the implementation of additional functionality that has been on their wishlist since inception.

The new website demanded a complete rethink of how users engage with news and information online, and how Daily Maverick could best meet the needs of their readers.

With over a million readers a month, all with varying news and information preferences, keeping everyone’s experience tailored while having the website perform at its optimal best was the main objective and challenge.

Daily Maverick has always been the people’s champion with amazing investigative journalism and content. From tightening their online

security when the Gupta Leaks broke, to defining how we would deliver content to an SA and greater global audience in 2018 and beyond, I’m

excited for the next phase in our journey as Digital Partner.

- Realm Digital Senior Account Manager, Rory Mc Lean.

CASESTUDY

DAILY MAVERICKRealm Digital was tasked to bring the Daily Maverick vision to life

The new website features the addition of User Profiles. These User Profiles includes a dedicated preference centre, which allows users to follow their favourite authors, edit newsletter alert preferences and find saved articles.

With preferences unique to each profile, presenting countless scenarios and requests to the server at any given time, the challenge in relation to the load on the site demanded extensive testing and optimisation.

Technology integrated in this project

THE SOLUTION

We faced new challenges with the Daily Maverick website revamp, migrating years of data between different CMS technologies, managing high traffic, ensuring high performance and up-time, and site security. We’ve fortunately overcome majority of the hurdles faced during this

journey, and but we haven’t downed tools yet.

- Realm Digital Lead Developer, Adrian De Vries

Since the launch in April over 2000 people have registered user profiles

Over 300 users have saved posts to their articles

Over 300 users are following their favourite

authors

THE RESULT

Realm Digital worked religiously with our team to bring the new Daily Maverick site to life - despite working on a tight budget

and the huge scope that a news site entails. They worked closely with us in all aspects of the project and their input and commitment helped shape the final product that we are

extremely proud of.

- Daily Maverick’s Publisher and CEO, Styli Charalambous

We are incredibly proud of the team at Daily Maverick and the important contribution

they make to SA politics through their investigative journalism. Given the critical

role their website plays in the dissemination of their content internationally, we were

honored to be involved.

- Realm Digital CEO, Simon Bestbier