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 22, 2024

Introducing featured categories

Not all categories are created equal, and by choosing what to spotlight, you can bring more attention to the stories that matter.

To help with that we've launched featured categories in our Bea theme.

If you feature a category, it will show up as:

  • a filter on your homepage, allowing users to fast filter stories.
  • a card in our new category dropdown, with more visual emphasis.
  • in our featured category block at the end of your homepage. If you don't wish to use this block, it can be toggled off in theme settings.

You can add images to categories now as well, used both for featured categories in the dropdown and also on the category page itself.

Find out more in our featured categories help article.

These are just some of the design changes we've made in this update and we appreciate your feedback as always! Shoot us a message via our support channel if you have any questions/feedback.

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

 

December 21, 2023

Improved click report for campaigns

🚦Click reports are only available for Premium or Enterprise plans. If you wish to activate this, please go to your Plans page in your Subscription & Billing settings.

We've improved the Click report users see as part of their overall campaign reports. As of today, the Click report will provide more context about the type of link that recipients click on in your email, showing whether this was a simple link to your site or newsroom; an image, attachment, or video; or an link to an external site.

You can see this information in the Type column:

The type column explains what your recipients have clicked on.
The type column explains what your recipients have clicked on.
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!

May 19, 2023

Prezly themes got an upgrade

Prezly's built-in site themes – Bea, Lena, Greta – have been upgraded to the latest versions of libraries they use: React 18 and Next 13. Here's what's different now:

  • Sharing images are now rendered at the same resolution (1200x630) for all sites, making them look much clearer on sharing cards
  • Transparent site logos in the upper left corner are now displayed on a background that matches the site’s header background color defined in the theme settings,
  • Sites without logos now display an image with fallback text, rendered in the same color and font used in the site's theme
The sharpest a site logo has ever looked 🗡
The sharpest a site logo has ever looked 🗡

The upgrade to Next 13 brings many great features that reduce the client bundle and unnecessary network requests. This is a game-changer, as it allows us to significantly improve all metrics and get rid of lots (and lots!) of code, and it makes all Prezly sites load even faster ⚡️

 

Other fixes and improvements

  • Campaign filters on a small screen are optimized and easier to use
  • Changing a story's language now auto-updates all available content (e.g. contacts, categories); previously, users had to hit save to apply the change
  • Lena theme now has a subtitle on the latest published story
  • Lena theme spacing between cards is smaller so there is less white space

 

April 28, 2023

Recent improvements & fixes

Bug fixes

  • Fixed bug causing a lag and frequent crashes in the story editor
  • Fixed issue with applying contact filter rules in the campaign composer
  • Fixed issue with the language picker always showing the last picked language

Improvements

  • Optimized contact import performance so import time is significantly quicker
  • Updated the contact preview with a new interface and layout (learn more)
  • Web bookmarks now open in a new tab as a default
  • The messaging around permission for users to send pitches is now clearer

 

April 20, 2023

Introducing the revamped Contact preview

Every contact imported or created in Prezly automatically has a contact profile, consisting of their contact details, organization information, notes, activity logs, and more. Previously, the contact profile could either be previewed or expanded to a whole page. But the structure of the contact profile page was rather outdated, and the hierarchy of contact information was taking up more space, requiring more scrolling up and down the page than it should.

So, we decided to give the contact preview a makeover, giving you a contact's information in one compact and convenient space, categorizing the information under different tabs for quicker access – and without having to expand and open a new page for a full overview! 🙌

The preview header consists of a summary of contact information and tags for a quick overview
The preview header consists of a summary of contact information and tags for a quick overview

Other fixes & improvements

  • Improved padding for the main dashboard page
  • Fixed bug preventing site settings loading from Sites grid on smaller screens
  • Fixed weird scrolling behavior on site settings pages
  • Fixed bug causing the Coverage filter to not show contact with tracked coverage
  • Fixed issue causing weird jitters on navigation bar when scrolling down
  • Fixed broken search filter results on the Bea site theme
  • Fixed Safari specific bug that caused clicking on Site settings to open a Campaign report page
  • Moved the 'Site settings' button close to site name on Site activity dashboard
  • Fixed broken category list (with 10+ categories) on the Lena site theme
March 27, 2023

Revamping billing: A new Plans page & a self-upgrade option

Improving the way our users handle their billing and plan details is something we've been working on behind the scenes here at Prezly, and we're excited to finally announce our latest release!

The latest updates offers you more control over billing settings, plus a better overview of you subscription & plan limits. Meet the brand new Plans page, the improved Billing page, and last, but definitely not least, the ability to self-upgrade directly in the Prezly app. For info on billing, plans, and upgrades, click here

How can I upgrade my plan?
1. Choose a plan
2. Confirm your billing information
3. Review the details of your upgrade and purchase your plan upgrade!

Other fixes and improvements

  • Fixed bug causing editor to scroll up when placeholder is added
  • Fixed bug where activity wasn't showing on a contact's profile page
  • Fixed bug where "Delivered" stats weren't showing on Campaign reports
  • Fixed issue with Gallery settings menu not closing properly
  • Improved Grid repositioning
  • Improved pre-loader for blocks in the editor
  • Fixed uneven amount of cards in themes
  • Fixed issue where always visible scrollbar causes unintended content shifting
  • Removed large empty space below story and before start of boilerpate
  • Improved site selection for stories

 

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