What's New
October 30, 2018
Input Integrations
Add your entire video and article libraries in one click. MAZ’s new input integrations allows you to curate and publish your JW Player, Vimeo, and Medium playlists and publications as mRSS and RSS feeds.
- Connect
- Curate
- Publish!
Video
JW Player
All of your JW Player manual Playlists now available everywhere!
How to Integrate JW Player
Vimeo
Turn your Vimeo Channels into feeds and publish to any Channel.
How to Integrate Vimeo
Articles
Medium
Every story and every publication you write or follow now available to publish across all platforms.
How to Integrate Medium
Smart Feed Sources
We’ve added another layer of filtering to power your Smart Feeds. With the flip of a switch, you can determine if content should be included or excluded. Handpick Content sources by toggling on and off different content per Smart Feed.
September 10, 2018
Podcasts
We’re bringing podcasts to MAZ. Starting today, we are adding audio hosting along with podcast RSS feed generation to power your podcast across all of the major podcasts platforms. In three easy steps, you can submit your podcast across Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify and SoundCloud.
1. Using Feed Builder, create a new podcast feed and upload your podcast audio files.
2. Add your new podcast feed to the podcast channel listed above.
3. Complete the setup for your podcast channel and submit your podcast for approval.
COMING SOON - Podcast support in your MAZ app! Reach out to success@mazsystems.com to learn more about getting podcasts in your app.
Alexa Flash Briefing
On top of being able to create a Flash Briefing with your text content, you can now use your own audio files to power your brand’s briefing. Distributing to millions of Alexa-powered devices has never been easier.
Public Library
We’ve added a library of 500+ publicly available RSS feeds inside the MAZ dashboard. Use them to get content flowing in Apps Creator or maybe curate the best of the Internet for your team’s content channel. You can also add any of your own feeds to the Public Library and share your content with other MAZ partners.
OTT Upgrades
Inline Menu
Allow your users to navigate the video playlist all during video playback. Without ever leaving the playback window, your users can now explore and navigate to any other video in the playlist.
Display Title
Turning on Display Title will give your users an idea of what’s currently playing on the screen. In the top right of the screen, the title of the current video will be displayed when this is turned on.
August 12, 2018
New Channel
New month, more places that you can publish your content to over 25 different platforms and device types. There are two different integration types that you should
API Based Integrations
To publish to these channel, all you need to do is authenticate your credentials in the MAZ system and start publishing immediately.
Feed-based Integration
To publish to these news aggregators, you can easily export your feeds to a supported RSS format and publish directly.
MAZ System Features
The Queue
You can now see all of your scheduled posts to social channel & video aggregators in one central queue. You can save posts for later publishing, update your scheduled times or simply publish now!
Convert Any Feed to a Feed Builder
Now you can take any of your existing RSS, Atom, or MRSS feeds and create your own Feed Builder feed. This essentially creates a snapshot of the feed as it exists in that moment of time and gives you the flexibility to customize it how you see fit, without it auto-updating with new content.
Feed Exports
Unlock the world of content syndication at your fingertips with the brand new feed export feature. Now, any of your content within MAZ can be routed, compiled and filtered into an RSS, MRSS and/or JSON output. There is no limit to how many different types of feeds that you can create, customize and re-publish.
Smart Feed
With rich segmentation powered by boolean logic, you can now create even smarter feeds! For example you could pull content related to only "Apple" AND "iPhone".
You could also pull content related to "Apple" AND "iPhone OR iPad"
With Negative Keywords, you can also exclude keywords such as "Apple" AND "iPhone" but NOT "Apple Watch"
Posts
Now when you are drafting a new social media post, MAZ will automatically update you on the relevant character counts that are appropriate for each platform and will automatically disable publishing to the platforms that are no longer eligible when your post exceeds the limit.
Additionally, you can now post directly to the queue to create a central repository of posts across all of your platforms and save your posts for later.
MAZ ID
Audience Segmentation
MAZ ID now features robust segmentation capabilities and content personalization. You can now segment your user base into the following audience groups.
- All Users
- Logged In
- Not Logged In
- Subscribers
- Non-Subscribers
- Expired Subscribers
You can now personalize your app experience for each of these different cohorts with targeted banners and push notifications to improve your audience engagement and ultimately your conversion.
Unified Login
Once your user creates an account in your app, MAZ supports a completely unified login. Your users subscription activity will be fully synced across iOS, Android and Roku devices. They can easily sync all of their purchase history and pick up exactly where they left off.
Apps Creator
Enhanced Offline Content Support
Now your apps will automatically cache any active web content, so if a device is kicked offline, that user can still finish that article, video or audio content. This includes any web links that you create within MAZ.
Data & Privacy Customization
You now customize your data privacy opt-in messaging: change your copy, pick your consent agreement and choose which
Improvements to Full Tile
You can now scroll in Full Tile and there is a direct download button.
Improvements to Simulated Live
MAZ's simulated live feature on OTT now supports any type of feed - MRSS, Feed Builder and Smart Feeds
May 14, 2018
Updates to MAZ Control Navigation
For those of you that have been with us for awhile, the dashboard have been revamped with a fresh coat of paint. Don’t you worry. Things may look a bit different, but you don’t have to change your workflow, We hope you are delighted with the new streamlined sections and killer new features.
MAZ has been reorganized into the following sections:
- I/O: This the heart and soul of MAZ. Under the I/O section, you'll add your content content and configure your channel. Have a new feed? Add it here. Need a new distribution channel? Flip the switch here. Want branded articles? Customize your templates here. Any content plugged into the Content section of MAZ can be routed anywhere. Content can be posts, videos, articles, images and best of all, content feeds. You can upload your RSS or MRSS feeds once and reference them, filter them or route them anywhere. App content can still be loaded directly into Apps Creator, but you’ll find using Content is just as easy and a lot more powerful.
- Apps Creator: All of the day-to-day management of your apps is now controlled in the Apps Creator tab of MAZ - that means UI Design, Notifications, Banners, Subscriptions, Ad Center and Analytics can all be found there. The common thread is that these pages control the app experience itself.
- Channel are the new endpoints: Endpoints are now categorized as channel. You’ll notice a few newcomers (more on that later), but all of your App Store settings are safe and accessible under the Output Setup.
May 14, 2018
Content Features
You can now control all of your content content directly within the content section of I/O
Whether your content are static media files, web articles, flowing content feeds or livestreams, the first step to creating your MAZ is adding your content. Under the I/O dashboard, click +New to reveal all of the input types (Create a post, Upload Your Media, Hook up a Feed, etc.)
A huge benefit is that you will now be able to reference any of your content across Apps Creator! That includes any piece of media that you upload directly and any feed that you hook up.
Input Folders
Additionally we added folders to MAZ! You can now organize all of your content and even create sub-folders to easily keep track of all of your content.
May 14, 2018
Channel
Endpoints has now been recategorized as channel. If you think about your content as content, then all of the places where you want to publish your content fall under channel. In addition to all of the usual suspects, you’ll notice some game changing newcomers!
Social
You can now output all of your content directly to Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, you can create and schedule social media posts directly within MAZ itself!
Video Aggregators & News Aggregators
You will notice that we have added two new sections that fall under the term content aggregators. You can now publish your video content and pipe your video feeds and publish directly to Video Aggregators such as YouTube and Roku Direct Publisher.
Additionally MAZ now supports News Aggregators such as Apple News! We have had a ton of partner demand for this output and we are the first content system to support seamless publishing to it! More to come.
Voice AI & Premium Channel
Last, but not least, the crown jewel of this incredible release, MAZ can now publish your content directly to Amazon Alexa. You’ll notice that these channel, along with mobile and OTTs are now designated as Premium, so please contact your MAZ sales rep to unlock access to these channel.
May 14, 2018
I/O Console
We are beyond thrilled to unveil the I/O Console a brand new way to view all of your content and where it is being published in real-time! I/O Console is nestled under the I/O section in the top Nav bar.
Once you click through, you will see a live view of all of your content content and channel that are actively flowing through MAZ! On high volume publishing days, we find it pretty mesmerizing.
Click the drop down on the top right to toggle between content and channel. You have the ability to search the console for key terms and click the title for a direct link to the source itself!
May 14, 2018
Revamped Help Center
We have completely revamped our Help Center to give you easy access to even more in-depth documentation about how to be successful with MAZ. We will continue to publish more robust guides and FAQs in the coming weeks, so feel free to click the help tab on the right of your window any time you need it!
March 19, 2018
PREMIUM FEATURE - INTRODUCING TEMPLATE DESIGNER
Introducing a powerful and efficient way to create and customize your templates for different article types instantly through MAZ. For the first time ever, MAZ partners can now directly edit article designs without looping in their development teams. With Template Designer, you can now:
- CHOOSE CUSTOM FONTS
- DESIGN & CUSTOMIZE NEW ARTICLE TEMPLATES
- PREVIEW YOUR WEB CONTENT ACROSS DEVICE TYPES
- INSTANTLY PUBLISH CHANGES IN YOUR APP IN MINUTES
Getting Started
Upon logging in to the MAZ Control, hover over Media Manager in the navigation and click on Template Designer.
This will take you into the main Template Designer control center. Immediately, you will be presented with three different options:
DEFAULT MAZ TEMPLATE
The MAZ default template that your app uses by default. This template is already active for all of your layouts
FONTS
Where you manage all of the different fonts that your app uses and upload new ones
+ TEMPLATE
Create a new template from scratch
Click here for a comprehensive guide on how to customize your content with Template Designer.
March 19, 2018
REVAMPED HELP CENTER
This past month, our partner success team performed an audit of all of our help tips and revamped the content. We have over 300+ help tips covering topics such as UI Design best practices, building your first OTT app, setting up a Smart Feed, sending your first Push Notification and much more.
For MAZ beginners and experts alike, we highly recommend that you click here to get all of the hot new tips to level up and create your next MAZterpiece.
December 21, 2017
Updates to MAZ Control Navigation
You’ll notice upon logging in that the MAZ Control Navigation looks a little different! All of the sections are now stationary at the top to make for easy navigating as you build your apps.
Distribution Dashboard has been broken down into standalone sections:
- Endpoints: Big makeover over here (see below for more info), now you can track the status for every endpoint that you are outputting content to: Building, To Test, Submitting, Pending and Live.
- Analytics: We've moved Analytics from Apps Creator into Distribution Dashboard! Within Analytics you can view “Stores” which pulls in your Developer Account data, “Engagement” that leads to Google Analytics, and “Settings” where you can toggle on and off various analytics options.
- Endpoint Setup: We’ve broken out what used to be part of Distribution Dashboard, into Endpoint Setup. This is where you put in all your app level information per endpoint (App Name, Description, Tags, Upload Assets, etc).
- Subscriptions: We’ve also made Subscriptions into a standalone section, which used to be part of Distribution Dashboard.
- Unlock Codes: Create access codes to give employees, advertisers, end users free access into your app.
December 21, 2017
Endpoints
We are in love with the new endpoints. What once was checkboxes is now your toggle on/off and status dashboard for every endpoint. Here you can monitor the progress as you build, test and submit your apps. Building and to test will appear orange, signifying the ability to continue finessing your app. Submitting and Pending will appear yellow, meaning these are in the App Store waiting to go live. Live will be green. Once submitted, you will see when it’s pending developer approval and finally, when it is live!
Endpoints is for mobile and OTT.
December 21, 2017
Endpoint Setup
Once you’ve toggled on/off the endpoints you want to submit to, you’ll go into Endpoint Setup to add in all the App Store information necessary for submission–– including App Store Name, Description, Category, Keywords, Assets and more. Choose from the dropdown menu on the right hand side to fill out the information per endpoint.
December 21, 2017
Subscription
Now a standalone dropdown within Distribution Dashboard, this is where you set up your subscription preferences. Once you toggle from No to Yes, you will choose the type of subscription you want to offer: All-Access or Duration Based. Then fill in the prices, durations, option for free trials, and other important information.
December 21, 2017
Banners
Don’t fret! Banners has moved out of Ad Settings and is now a standalone section in Apps Creator.
December 21, 2017
UI Design: OTT
Now under UI Design in Apps Creator, you can build and visualize your OTT UI in a more streamlined, easy way.
You’ll notice a dropdown menu, where you can create the interface of your OTT.
- General Interface: upload OTT Logo and App Icon for the various app stores, and choose your general layout color and icons.
- Saved Section: edit the text and background color of your saved section.
- Subscriptions: select the color, copy, and button and text color for subscribers.
- User Registration: pick user login types, copy, color and text.
- Top Shelf: choose feed you want to deep link to from top shelf view.
- Video Settings: toggle on/off for inline video thumbnails.
December 21, 2017
OTT Layout: Detail View Update
We’re allowing for more viewable text characters in Detail View, so that headlines don’t get cut off as much! Woo!
December 21, 2017
New Layout: Full Tile
New layout alert! Now we offer Full Tile, a full image display option with no cropping! Choose and edit your section and content layouts on the left hand side of Apps Creator where you see “Edit Design.”
December 21, 2017
Smart Feed
In Media Manager, we’ve added a new type of media option to author: Smart Feed!
You can now create a Smart Feed, which is tag based–– enter your search tags, separated by commas–– and a feed will be created that searches titles, descriptions and bodies to create customized and layout feeds.
Once you have your Smart Feed set up, you can utilize that content in Apps Creator. While adding +Content, you’ll see Smart Feed in your dropdown list of Content Types. You’ll be prompted to select the correct Smart Feed (if you make multiple).
Smart Feed is an incredible way to create targeted feeds. This is useful in so many ways for so many types of partners. For instance, TVX and Phoenix partners could consider utilizing Smart Feed to create targeted recommendations to users. Or, NewsX partners could create on-the-fly breaking news editorials, fielding in all the news from one specific event or news story.
December 21, 2017
Additions to Media Manager Article Editor
When editing or authoring your body text in an article in Media Manager, you will now notice that there are additional Editor options for you:
- Increase/Decrease Font Size
- Change Text Color
- Decrease Indent
- Increase Indent
- Horizontal Line
December 21, 2017
Article Extraction
When adding +Content in Apps Creator, you’ll see an option just below entering the title, sub-title and description for “Article Extraction Default.” Toggle on/off to choose whether you want articles to load MAZ templates or pull from your website. Note: On = MAZ templates, Off = Website.
December 21, 2017
Share Button: Content Only
We’ve removed the share button from sections and sub-sections, and now you can only share on content items. It’s a small change but will be noticeable in your app’s UI.
December 21, 2017
Progress Bar on Top
The Progress Bar Indicator used to be located on the bottom of the article, now you'll noticed it's located on the top of an article.
December 21, 2017
New Article Loading Screen
We’ve updated our article loading screen. Users will see this while an article loads:
December 21, 2017
Download Button Visible Pre-Purchase
To appease users who were unsure whether issues could be downloaded at time of purchase, we’ve included a Download button to be visible pre purchase to notify users that these issues are downloadable once purchased.
December 21, 2017
Faster Launch Times
To top it off, we’re excited to say that launch times are even faster now! And they will continue to be every release. =)
September 25, 2017
Updates to MAZ Control Navigation
You'll notice that we've consolidated the MAZ Control Navigation to make your workflow more streamlined and intuitive. Don't worry! It’s nothing too crazy…
Apps Creator encompasses all things App Level:
- Apps Creator: (formerly known as App Design), where you can set up feeds, sections, and general UI, layouts and branding.
- UI Design: is where you can brand the language and layout of the General Interface of your apps: Saved Section, Metering and CTA screens, Subscriptions, User Registration, Apple Watch, iOS Widgets and more.
- Notification Wizard, to schedule, create and cancel push notifications.
- Ad Center, to create banner ads, sponsorship launch screens, and finesse your ad integrations with our third party networks.
- Analytics, which pulls in iTunes Connect and Google Play download data.
Media Manager is all things content management. You can Add Media in the form of an article, image gallery, PDF, deeplink, and video. And then organize content within Media Manager.
Distribution Dashboard is where you'll fill out your device output checklist, which is now called Endpoints. All App Info is in Distribution Dashboard, and Unlock Codes is where you can activate access codes.
September 25, 2017
Geo Push
Now you can make push notifications selectively available by country or continent! This feature is useful for partners with international news. To begin, you'll need to go into Distribution Dashboard down to Geo Fencing section and toggle "Display All Content In All Countries" from Yes to No.
From there, once you start creating Push Notifications in Notification Wizard, you'll see the option at the bottom to select what countries or continents to have the push sent out to.
September 25, 2017
Targeted Banners
Within Apps Creator, you can manage your ads in Ad Center. We've always offered the ability to create banners, but now we are expanding the possibilities by enabling you to create groups of banners by simply clicking on +GROUP. These groups can be targeted at different sections or feeds in your app for mobile, tablet, and OTT.
To target a specific Section, simply tap Setup to choose what Banner Group to display:
And to target a specific Content, expand "Advertising Options" while setting up your Content to choose Banners:
September 25, 2017
1:1 Processing
Now we will display your RSS, MRSS and JSON feeds exactly as they are created. Any adjustments that you make in a feed will be reflected exactly in your app for mobile, tablet, and OTT.
September 25, 2017
Last Viewed
You can now set up where (if any) you want users to automatically be returned to upon reopening an issue after navigating elsewhere in your app.
To do so, go into +Content Feed to Advanced Options at the bottom. You can choose to Deeplink to "Last Viewed."
Once selected, you can decide whether to include a Deeplink or Web URL. Note that Last Viewed is for iPhone and iPad apps only. Learn More...
September 25, 2017
New Feed Builder Item: PDF
When you are creating your app, you can now utilize PDFs as a Feed Builder Item. As you create a feed, you'll be prompted to +Item. In the dropdown list you can choose from Article, Image, Video, Header, Magazine Ad, Deeplink, and now PDF. This option provides your users with another way to access your magazine as a PDF. Learn More...
September 25, 2017
Tablet Default
Specific Sections can be defaulted to launch on Tablet, in addition to Mobile and TV. This is helpful for specific content and design them layouts that are better suited for the larger screen of a tablet device. Learn More...
September 25, 2017
Navigation Buttons
For Phoenix partners, you can now add navigation buttons into your magazine issues UI. These buttons are a great guide to your users so they can navigate within and out of your magazine issues as they are reading. While adding +Content in Apps Creator, you will see Magazine Options towards the bottom. Expand that to see the options for adding navigation buttons: Cover, Contents and Home. Learn More...
September 25, 2017
Secret Unlock
A very useful feature for you to utilize is Secret Unlock. For any subscription based purchase on mobile, you can now create an access code for whoever you'd like (ie: employees, advertisers, customer support, etc.) and you can revoke the access at any time. To unlock in app, go into Settings, and hold down for 3 seconds on "Restore iTunes Purchases."
You'll find Unlock Codes under Distribution Dashboard. Learn More...
September 25, 2017
iOS Widgets and Apple Watch
We've moved iOS Widgets and Apple Watch set up into UI Design (under Apps Creator). It's on the right side drop down menu, where you can choose Apple Watch or iOS Widgets. From there, you can set up deeplinks for both iOS tools so that people are taken directly to where you want them to go. Learn More...
September 25, 2017
OTT Viewer App for TVX
At long last, we have a TVX Viewer App for TVX partners to see their working apps on Apple TV. In addition to using the HTML5 Simulator right in MAZ Control, you can now get the real sense of what you're building, how it functions, and what it looks like to your end users via the Viewer App.
To access the viewer app, tap the green Simulator button on the top left, which will prompt you with directions to download the app, as well as login credentials. Learn More...
September 25, 2017
Share Button on TVX
You'll notice that we've removed the Share button on OTT apps. Data doesn't support a strong preference for social login, so for now we've removed the option. We hope to add it back in a more useful way going forward!
September 25, 2017
Resume Sync
Now we offer Resume Sync, the capability to resume to where you left off in an article or video between devices. This feature syncs as long as the user is logged in via the same account. This works across mobile, tablet, and OTT!
September 25, 2017
Lightbox
Currently Phoenix only, we now have Lightbox, the ability to tap and zoom on photos in an article. If articles have multiple images, you can tap and scroll through all the images in one fell swoop. Currently Lightbox only works for MAZ templates.
September 25, 2017
Launch Progress Indicator
Upon launch, there will be a progress indicator over the launch screen to show loading time. This works across mobile, tablet, and OTT and is helpful for slow wifi connections or poor cell service, your users will know that something is going on in the background.
June 30, 2017
Updates to App Design
MAZ Control continues to grow with our most recent Q2 release. Going forward, you'll be able to design your mobile app in a more custom, streamlined way than you've ever been able to before. Open up the Apps Creator and click App Design on the top left.
Here you'll be able to navigate and design nearly every aspect of your user interface. This means previewing the various scenarios that users encounter throughout your app, choosing your section icons or uploading your own, your color scheme, and how Metering, Call To Actions, User Registrations and Saved are displayed to your users. What's cool is that you'll be able to see the design in real time through the on-screen simulator.
For now this customized UI is only available on mobile. To learn about each screen you can design in more depth, follow these links into Zendesk: General Interface, Saved Section, Metering + Call To Action, Subscribe Section and User Registration.
**Take note that if you are editing a live app, any changes that you SAVE will become LIVE.**
June 30, 2017
Geo Fencing
Now you can make feeds selectively available by country! This feature is useful for partners with international news.
In Distribution Dashboard, you'll see a section at the bottom labeled: Geo Fencing. The default will be set to display all content in app countries. If you choose "No", you'll be asked to choose a Default Country, which will default to the United States unless otherwise selected.
If you choose "No" then you have the option to choose which countries can access what content. Go into Apps Creator, and as you add or edit Content, you will be prompted in "Setup" under Release Options to choose whether that content is available in All Countries, if you uncheck it - you'll be able to check entire continents or go country by country. learn more..
June 30, 2017
Offline Access
Now content can be set for Offline Access. This means that a user can download an issue or article to access offline. To allow Offline Access to users, create or click into your Content, and then click "Edit Design" at the top left. There you will see a box to check or uncheck: Display Download Button. The ability to download will only appear for unlocked content (free or bought). Currently, this does not work for video content.
June 30, 2017
Dynamic Metering
We are now introducing a new option for metering. Our default metering is what you know as Timed Access. Now, we are introducing view based metering. In Distribution Dashboard is where you will first choose to put Subscriptions On/Off. This is also where you will put in the type of subscriptions you offer and the prices.
From there, head into Apps Creator to the top left App Design area.
You'll see the dropdown menu where you can choose: Metering + Call To Action. This is where things get fun!
You have full control over the way everything looks and reads - from the language and aesthetics, to the metering specificities. You can allow Free Views from 1-50, resetting that option from Never-28 Days, and if and when to prompt a registration wall. From there you can view the various interfaces that a user will see at all times during the View metering. You can test out the text at the beginning, during and end of views allowed. learn more..
**Take note that if you are editing a live app, any changes that you SAVE will become LIVE.**
June 30, 2017
JSON Support
We now support JSON! It is still limited as we don't support video yet. If you're interested to learn more... about how to switch your app to JSON, please contact support@mazsystems.com as there may be fees associated with this migration. Thanks!
June 30, 2017
New Feed Builder Item: Deeplink
When you are creating your app, you can now utilize Deeplinks as a Feed Builder Item. As you create a feed, you'll be prompted to +Item. In the dropdown list you can choose from Article, Image, Video, Header, Magazine Ad, and now Deeplink.
From there, you'll choose where to deeplink to, what to call it, add in any tags or descriptions, and upload a Feed Image (either horizontal or vertical). Learn More...
March 31, 2017
MAZ Control Makeover
Hello!
You'll notice that MAZ Control has been redesigned and improved to make your app creation process easier and more streamlined. We want to start by pointing out a few things that will help you get your bearings.
New MAZ Control has all the capabilities you're familiar with, as well as many additions that will make your apps even more customized to your needs. Notification Wizard is where you control your push notifications, if you have them enabled through the MAZ platform. Apps Creator is where you create the infrastructure of your app. Media Manager is a brand new CMS tool for you to make article edits from any "PDF to Feed" conversions, or simply create and host your own articles and image galleries. Ad Center is how you manage your ads. And, Distribution Dashboard is all of the App Store assets and information and subscriptions options. Learn More...
March 31, 2017
Notification Wizard
The Notification Wizard is a centralized area to manage your Push Notifications for your apps! You can create, edit and schedule your notifications; once they have been sent they become greyed out and the delivered amount is displayed. You will see this option only if you have them enabled for you app, if you would like to enable them please contact your account manager today. Learn More...
March 31, 2017
Navigation and App Design Tabs: Apps Creator
The prior Navigation and App Design tabs are now referred to as the Apps Creator. For any content that is external using a URL, (e.g. PDF, RSS, MRSS, etc) you will use AppCreator in the same way that you did with Navigation with a few improvements to hierarchy setup to make things easier when creating sections and subcategory content levels. You will notice the option to use Media Manager for content type selection. This is a new feature that allows you to host and manage your own content within MAZ Control dashboard. Learn More...
March 31, 2017
Media Manager
Media Manager is a brand new CMS feature that allows for you to either edit your PDF to Feed issues per article, or, you can simply create your own articles or add in images. This feature is in limited release and may not be viewable on your account. Discuss with your account manager if this feature is right for you! Learn More...
March 31, 2017
Ad Center
The MAZ Ad Center has evolved to now include the ability to control your own ad integration feeds including DFP, SpotX, Gigya and Taboola. We’ve added a feature that shows ads in the category and sub-category setup only if you have enabled them within the AdCenter. If you don’t see them showing check first to see it’s enabled. You now have the option to deep link to Sponsor content as well for even greater impact for your advertisers. Learn More...
March 31, 2017
Analytics Panel
You are now able to view your app activity at a glance in your Analytics Panel dashboard. This includes downloads, single purchases and subscriptions and the ability to see your gross sales quickly. You are also able to access the more granular data in exportable CSV and PDF downloads for varying date ranges and devices. Learn More...
March 31, 2017
Distribution Dashboard
The Distribution Dashboard is the place you will go into the least. It is used to setup your app info, including assets, subscription options, device availability (e.g. Roku, Apple, Android, etc) when you first create your app in MAZ Control. If you don’t see this tab this means your app is live and any changes need to be requested through your account manager. Learn More...
March 31, 2017
Preview Tab: Simulator
The most exciting feature is the new Simulator! For those who have made the move to our OTT offerings, you can now preview exactly what you will view on the OTT from your desktop by simply clicking Simulator. Every change you make updates upon refresh to make your design process easier. The Simulator will look and function the exact same way that a real device does. If you do not have access to this feature, your account manager will advise you once it is available to you. Learn More...
