April 12, 2024

The story, campaign and pitch listings are getting a new look! ✨

Key changes

  • New layout – the new listings contain the same information as the previous tables, but presented in a more condensed format that doesn't require horizontal scrolling. It also allows more space for long titles.
  • Easier campaign and pitch comparison – with all data within view, you can quickly compare open and click rates across campaigns.
  • Simpler controls No more columns to reorder. Above the listed stories, campaigns and pitches you can still sort your list based on status, author, and more. You can also change rows per page.
  • Faster access to pitches – clicking a pitch row now opens the pitch, instead of the recipient of the pitch.

Campaign unsubscribe numbers are now shown when clicking through to the campaign report.

When is it coming?

We are releasing this incrementally to allow for a smooth rollout. Some of you will already see this in your account as of now, while some of you will have it within the coming weeks.

We'd love your feedback

As this is a visible change to pages many of you work on regularly, we understand this can feel like a big change. As always, we would love to get your feedback on the new listings - be it a bug, a frustration or a suggestion. Write us a message via the support chat in the bottom right corner.

March 5, 2024

Improved image galleries

We've just shipped a nice improvement to galleries - you can now crop, delete, edit captions and reorder images directly in the editor!

it's now easier to see which images you are deleting, and what to caption, and you can arrange your galleries as you like with less effort. Drag images in the editor to rearrange, or click 'Randomize' to mix things up a bit.

arranging your story gallery
arranging your story gallery

Media galleries now have wider width options as well so you can display galleries contained, expanded and full width.

If you share a media gallery link as a bookmark in a story, it shows it's both a media gallery and also the number of images within it on the bookmark, along with the gallery title and description.

Top tip: insert one and try experimenting with Card layout options - vertical and horizontal works well for different style images.

improved media gallery bookmarks
improved media gallery bookmarks

There's a new item in the menu - media gallery bookmark. This lets you search across sites and insert media galleries as web bookmarks into your stories, campaigns and pitches easily. Great for adding at the end of a story or email to let people browse your media galleries.

See more in our help article below:

Adding an image gallery to your story
Adding an image gallery to your story

Adding and editing image gallery embeds

 

June 23, 2023

The "Made with Prezly" badge

The new "Made with Prezly" badge design can be seen at the bottom of your sites and stories, as well as in the footers of your email campaigns.

Apart from the design and adding the badge to footers of email campaigns, no additional changes have been made and users who have Prezly accounts on the Premium, Enterprise, and Agency plans are still able white-label their sites if they wish.

This can be done on the Prezly branding toggle under the Branding section of your Site settings.


Other improvements & updates

  • New label for previews of stories
  • Fixed bug where some contacts were not showing organizations
  • Fixed contact preview margins so tags are not overlapping
  • Fixed bug causing text format toolbar to disappear after highlighting text
June 12, 2023

Story headers, titles and subtitles are now one with the editor

Previously, the header image, title, and subtitle placeholders were separate fields from the rest of Prezly's story editor. Now, they are part of the content, which enables you to use additional formatting and positioning options for all three, like centering your title text, or even adjusting the size and alignment of your header image!

December 15, 2022

New: Pin a story to your site

You can now pin a story to the top of your site so that it always shows as the first story that your audience will see when they visit your site, regardless of when it was published.

Think of this feature as a story sticky note! Once pinned, the publication date will not show on the site's homepage, and you can easily unpin a story and pin another one whenever you want.

Learn more about pinning a story to your site →

 

November 17, 2022

Introducing the revamped Story Editor!

Get an overview of the latest Prezly updates, improvements and bug fixes here. To see a quick history of our previous releases, check out our monthly roundups! ✨

Over time, newer publishing options and settings have slowly been added to the editor interface, allowing you to do even more with your stories. However, as more controls were being created, it became clear to us that the story editor was running out of space, and we would ultimately reach a point where adding more controls located in different parts of the editor could become overwhelming instead of useful to all users.

The primary focus of our Story Editor has always been on content creation. So, we decided to simplify the interface, making it easier for you to set up your stories and save changes whenever you need to.

The newest version of the story editor offers users a cleaner workspace – bringing all the settings in one place and giving you easier access to publish options, visibility, sharing controls, and more.

Learn more →


Other fixes and improvements

  • Fixed bug for grid items with multiple values so they show properly
  • Fixed error when selecting "bi-annually" periodicity
  • Hide All Visibility and All Authors filters if only one value is available
  • Fixed bug preventing images from being cropped
  • Fixed issue where Image settings menu was covering the resize button
  • Fixed broken search function that wasn't showing results
  • Improved image caption editing
  • Fixed bug where duplicating campaigns fails with a 404 error
  • Fixed bug where stories did not load in campaign or pitch editor
  • Updated the icon for empty states on avatars to a newer design

 

October 21, 2022

Introducing the new Media Galleries page

Get an overview of the latest Prezly updates, improvements and bug fixes here. To see a quick history of our previous releases, check out our monthly roundups! ✨

Setting up and managing Media galleries is now as quick and easy as adding a gallery embed to your stories.

Overall, this improvement increases the loading speed of the Media gallery pageand lays the groundwork for the feature to support more file formats in the future (i.e. not just images)!

Learn more →


Other fixes, improvements and updates

  • Fixed the display behavior when returning to Step 1 of the Campaign Composer
  • Fixed issue preventing attached PDFs in email campaigns from loading
  • Fixed error found in Embed option in the Story Editor
  • Fixed bug where Tags dropdown displays only reduced set of available tags
  • Fixed Email reports on Contact pages that were showing incorrect data
  • Fixed a bug for grid items with multiple values
  • Fixed a special case bug when downloading media galleries in bulk from newsrooms
October 14, 2022

Placeholders for content in stories and emails

Get an overview of the latest Prezly updates, improvements and bug fixes here. To see a quick history of our previous releases, check out our monthly roundups! ✨

We recently released placeholders for the different multimedia embeds you can add to your stories and emails! Placeholders help users create templates so their content stays consistent, and can be used as pointers for where specific types of content should be placed.

Learn more →


Other fixes, improvements and updates

  • Fixed bug with activity stream missing all activity details
  • Fixed issue with tags not being created or applied to contacts
  • Fixed issue with error showing from adding tags to segments
  • Removed duplicate preview links in the story editor
  • Fixed mistake on Uzbek version of the subscription section in themes
  • Improved quote blocks to appear in the same color in stories and campaigns
  • Added option to select from contacts' multiple email addresses in pitches
  • Improved contact embed dropdown in the editor
  • Fixed issue with published stories not being indexed for due to duplicate content
  • Fixed glitch appearing in the story editor when using Safari
October 4, 2022

Save frequently used content as Snippets and use them in stories and emails 🔖

Get an overview of the latest Prezly updates, improvements and bug fixes here. To see a quick history of our previous releases, check out our monthly roundups! ✨

When it comes to recurring content like signatures, disclaimers, product descriptions, profiles and more, there wasn't a way for Prezly's users to keep and reuse them.

This is where snippets step in. You can now create text and other frequently used content and store them as snippets, and add them anywhere and anytime in your stories, campaigns or pitches.

Learn more →


Other fixes, improvements and updates

  • New placeholders for multimedia embeds you can add to your stories and emails
  • Video files (MP4, WEBM, or OGG) can now be uploaded via the Video placeholder
  • Improved license aware routing so browser tabs are automatically updated when switching accounts
  • Improved order of live and not live newsrooms so live newsrooms show on top
  • Fixed search results month filter for stories filtering on the wrong month
  • Fixed bug with analytics not working for stories published using old editor
May 23, 2022

Image alignment, sizing options and other improvements

Image alignment

Image alignment is now available in your Story Editor! The new Image settings comes with new alignment options, as well as sizing controls and the ability to customize the link on your images.

The Image settings in the Campaign composer has similar image options with Small, Best Fit and Original sizing. This comes in handy when you want to add an email image banner above the email body.

 

More improvements

  • Stories in draft mode are now also auto-saved
  • Old accounts can now re-register for a trial on prezly.com
  • Text formatting for Quotes in the Story Editor and Campaign Composer
  • New /welcome page for new accounts
  • Linked /welcome page in header for Trial accounts
  • New design for Account Creation and Terms & Conditions pages

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