Blasting News showcases its latest innovations at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York

This week, New York has played host to globally renowned publishers and tech giants with the aim to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the publishing industry in 2017. In this great company, Blasting News Founder & CEO Andrea Manfredi attended the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit 2017 to showcase the latest innovations that made Blasting News grow to 100 million active users faster than Facebook in its start-up phase.

Championing people-power: Blasting News is the power of uncensored voices.

The participation of Blasting News at the "Digital Publishing Innovation Summit 2017" proves how recognition of the publisher's rapid growth has been accredited to its open-door policy: every freelance writer can join Blasting News to publish stories, to boost their portfolio and to get compensation out of it. In an age when internet sensitivity, fake news and "Covfefe" are on everyone's lips, Blasting News has proven to be a source of authority: with more than 2,000 writers now actively contributing to diverse categories and topics every month; the London-based startup has revealed the power of uncensored voices.

What Social Value really is?

During the event, Manfredi shared his proven formula to attract and engage strong audiences. “Our success relies on a new way to define and measure the “Social Value” - explained Manfredi”. The Social Value is totally different from traditional “vanity metrics” - such as off-site reach on social media - that many traditional publishers are still attracted to as a demonstration of their digital successes. “From our perspective, it is the number of people actively participating to your organization, on your website, with a meaningful, impactful and valuable interaction" - said Manfredi. "People’s behaviour is changing. People want to play a greater role in bringing transparency, independence and fairness to the media. These changes, coupled with technology opens up a new journalistic paradigm.”

Challenges for the entire industry.

Reuters, The Washington Post and Hearst are just a flavour of the 40+ distinguished industry speakers who attended the summit in New York. The schedule for the event included talks such as "Content Types and What Will Work Best in 2017" and "Verifying Content in an Era of 'Fake News'”, common challenges for the entire industry. Attendees to the event included 250+ senior level employees of internationally known corporations, such as, CNN, Mashable, Mail Online.

About Blasting News.

Blasting News is the largest global social news publisher – set up in mid-2013, it is now within the 130th most visited website in the world (Alexa Ranking), thanks to 100+ million monthly unique on-site visitors. Blasting News is made by the people, for the people. News is produced by delocalised freelance contributors (Blasters), fact-checked and curated by a quality team of senior professionals (Senior Blasters). Furthermore, news is distributed by Social Blasters, a global team of top digital influencers. All the processes are fueled by the crowd, without any central newsroom - thanks to an extensive use of technology (the core stages are managed by algorithms, some of which are patent-pending). Blasting News has readers in five continents and offices in London, New York, Sao Paulo, Rome, and soon Singapore.