Maximum Interaction: Why Publishers Are Turning to Polls to Engage Website Audiences
As a publisher, you're undoubtedly feeling increasing pressure to captivate audiences in a way that both builds your community and generates revenue. You publish great online content, but is that enough to keep your audiences engaged in the modern age of constant distractions and diminished attention spans? Unfortunately, the answer is no. You need to do more, which is why so many publishers have been looking for ways to make their websites more interactive and dynamic.
These days, the comments section has become a standard feature on nearly every publisher website. But do Internet comments really add value, or are they just a necessary evil?
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Great communities don’t happen by accident. Explore how you can create a community where people (and robots) can learn to enjoy their passions on the open web.
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SAN FRANCISCO (April 15, 2016) -- Taboola®, the world’s leading discovery platform, today announced its global partnership with Disqus, the world’s leading audience development platform that helps publishers grow and engage with audiences online. The collaboration integrates Taboola’s existing platform with Disqus’ massive distribution across millions of websites around the world, effectively democratizing native advertising for the web.
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If you create Community Guidelines for your site and no one reads them, what’s the point really?
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Update (January 4, 2018): The Disqus for iPhone app is no longer available in the App Store. Today, after much anticipation, we're excited to announce that we've released the first version of our iOS app in the Apple app store.
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At Disqus, we love the Internet. And we love that we help publishers of all sizes create places to share content with their readers and build lasting communities. We feel that building a great platform for publishers and commenters depends on hearing directly from communities about what's working and what's sucking. Earlier this week, we sat down with the staff and community at Spoiler TV for an AMA (ask me anything) interview to figure out how we can improve Disqus.
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As the web’s community of communities, we pride ourselves on values that allow us to shift perspectives and share in diverse discussions. These values are an integral part of how we operate internally, and are key to the way we make decisions about our products, our business, and our company. One of our core values is making an impact: we make an impact at work, online, and IRL as well.
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You might remember a few months ago we rolled out the ‘Organizations’ view—a new feature for multi-site owners to get a single, comprehensive view of all their account data across multiple sites.
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Here at Disqus, we do our best to ensure that all the Disqus services you love are fully operational at all hours of the day. As a publisher, we know you rely on Disqus to do your job, whether that’s growing your audience, engaging with your community, or monetizing your site below-the-fold, you likely want to know if we experience any network-wide service issues.
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Late last year, we released several major updates to the tools publishers use each and every day: A brand new interface for mobile as well as desktop, reporting that shows performance across multiple sites within an organization, and even an at-a-glance metrics email. If you haven’t experienced these updates for yourself yet, check them out at https://disqus.com/admin.
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2015, where did you go? Is it me, or does each year seem to go by faster and faster? It certainly went by in the blink of an eye for me. One interesting thing to note, is that Disqus’s Community Service Program has been going strong for 1 year! Go Disqus!
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