The Times & The Sunday Times choose Glide to power education brands

Glide partners with UK news giant to power its industry-leading education brands Good University Guide and Parent Power.

Published: 11:34, 20 September 2022

September 20, 2022 - London, UK

Glide Publishing Platform is proud to announce it has been chosen by The Times and The Sunday Times as the digital Content Management System technology partner for its world-leading education brands the Good University Guide, and Parent Power.

Glide is the cloud-native headless SaaS CMS geared towards the needs and challenges faced by publishing and content businesses, and frees publishers from the commitment and cost of building or maintaining a back-end digital publishing system.

Glide CEO Denis Haman said: "We are immensely proud to be continuing our work on these amazing publications, which give vital information to parents and students. The Good University Guide is the definitive guide to UK and Irish universities and has been helping students make critical decisions about their education for nearly 25 years, while Parent Power gives unrivalled insight into the best primary and secondary schools in the UK.

"Glide has been helping produce these two amazing brands for over a decade, so it is very satisfying to continue the journey. GPP is tailored to the very high demands of modern content businesses and the unique demands of high-quality data-driven publishing - both which sit at the heart of the Good University Guide and Parent Power."

Glide's highly flexible API-driven architecture will integrate with print and digital platforms, and allow Times & Sunday Times development teams to more quickly and easily build immensely detailed products for their subscribers more quickly and simply.

"Glide lets content businesses focus 100% on their audiences and revenue strategies. Our expertise and deep understanding of the challenges modern publishing companies face means we are a natural fit and able to bring significant added value to our customers," Haman explained.

About The Times and The Sunday Times

The Times is one of Britain’s most trusted newsbrands and the UK’s #1 quality daily newspaper. Founded in 1785, it is the home of authoritative, credible and award-winning journalism.

The Sunday Times is one of the best-known newsbrands in the world and the UK’s top-selling quality Sunday paper. Founded in 1822, it is still relied upon to challenge, entertain, inspire and inform its readers.

The titles won nine awards at the latest Press Awards including Sunday newspaper of the year for The Sunday Times, magazine of the year for Saturday's Times Magazine, innovation of the year for Times Radio as well as science reporter, columnist, interviewer, foreign reporter, sports photographer, and cartoonist of the year.

There have never been more ways for consumers to access the peerless journalism of The Times and The Sunday Times, which is available in print, online, on podcasts and on Times Radio via DAB, online, on your smart speaker and the free app.

About Glide Publishing Platform

Glide is a cloud-native API-driven headless CMS which removes the need for users to spend time and budget on outdated publishing technology to instead focus on the aspects of their business which generate revenue and response.

As a Software as a Service (SaaS), Glide provides incredible peace of mind on scalability, robustness, and availability, featuring the backup enterprises need such as self-healing infrastructure, alerts, monitoring, and round-the-clock support.

The Glide platform features a vast array of tools as standard including Live Reporting, Digital Asset Management, and automatic SEO which make the job of publishing companies and editorial teams easier, improving content output, speeding delivery and distribution of content, and significantly increasing the pace of new launches and new product development.

Glide is also available via the AWS Marketplace.

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