Brightspot CMS - Private Offer Only

What do you like best about the product?

Ability to manage content, control user access, and handling international translations.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not as much flexibility for design control.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to translate the site into multiple languages.

What do you like best about the product?

Brightspot is a very robust system that allows us to be able to tailor to our needs. I've been able to add custom page and content types to make content editor's jobs in managing content easier. I also like how easy it to manage multiple sites, each with its own permissions. For the most part, the form based content curation allows editors to be able to input content with minimal learning. It also allows for quicker content creation and editing.

What do you dislike about the product?

My biggest gripe about Brightspot is how the Prose Editor handles HTML tables. The existing tools are very limiting and it makes it difficult to impossible to create an accessible table. The other grip is how the editor treats everything, like headings, as enhancements, it pops an empty window when adding one, and have to click "save" just to add a heading.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows us to be able to host multiple sites on a single platform while giving us the robustness of having it being hosted in the cloud. Before, I had to manage all of this. It also helps us to be able to integrate with Brightcove, and other systems. The authentication and authorization system that we have allows us to segregate content depending on user permissions.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to use. Also really try to utilize the SEO tab.

What do you dislike about the product?

I feel like the modules to populate homepages could be made similar

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Traffic - reader engagement - easy to drop in video / socials to help amplify a story

What do you like best about the product?

Brightspot has made it very simple to get our content out there for our customers. I am a new instructional designer, and Brightspot was very easy to learn and to format our content in a consumable way.

What do you dislike about the product?

The searching within Brightspot has been a little tricky. I also would love to be able to format image sizes and I am unable to do that within Articles and Topics.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am a newer Brightspot user. I am liking the newest version and feel searching has improved, but it is something we just switched to.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy GUI for editors that are often not tech savvy

What do you dislike about the product?

ECT's - they are too restrictive but changing to java will be expensive for us at this point

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a news site so creating content in the form of many articles per day is what we use the CMS for

What do you like best about the product?

The people make every interaction with the company a great experience. In every interaction, they go above and beyond.

What do you dislike about the product?

As a developer, their documentation is my biggest headache. Their support team is always great about answering my questions, but I’d really prefer to be able to find those answers on my own.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Brightspot is allowing us to get the news 📰 out to our communities.

What do you like best about the product?

With Brightspot, there's no client/agency, we are one team working towards aligned goals. The Brightspot team members are always up to speed on the latest in industry news and tech

What do you dislike about the product?

n/a - no complaints --> i appreciate all the value they bring

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

My SPOC at Brightspot is my webmaster - always on top of things before they become issues. Always introducing enhancements so that my website is always cutting edge. The metrics improve upon themselves in every quarter.

What do you like best about the product?

What I find most helpful is out-of-the-box abilities like create a site, manage the content and it's status, create new content, archive or sunset older content, and have it all hosted within the app. It is responsive. It has a learning curve, but it's not steep. Online docs and FAQ pages help with learning how to use BrightSpot. It has plugins for useful third-party apps that help to streamline your workflow.

What do you dislike about the product?

It can be difficult to wrap your head around some of the styling workflow. Handlebars was not a technology I knew a lot about and it took some time to get up to speed.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have several smaller groups within our organization that don't need a headless system with lots of custom development work. They benefit from the ease of using BrightSpot to allow them to quickly and easily get content and information out to the people that need it.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Brightspot for creating multilingual and localized content for a global audience, which is really helpful. I like that it allows me to schedule content to publish automatically, solving my issue with inconsistent publishing schedules. I appreciate the content version history and audit trails that Brightspot provides. Additionally, the initial setup was fast, making it easy to get started.

What do you dislike about the product?

I think Brightspot could improve by expanding third-party integration with more marketing and analytics tools.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Brightspot to create multilingual content and solve inconsistent publishing schedules by allowing automatic content scheduling.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Brightspot allows our entire editorial team to post their updates to our website. I also appreciate the headless mode it provides, which lets our developers ingest data from it. It's great that we can customize it to suit our needs.

What do you dislike about the product?

The upgrade process is challenging. For infrastructure management, we've had a couple of issues with stability. Setting up Brightspot's infrastructure hasn't been so easy and requires some knowledge from our team, especially given our customizations.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Brightspot for content management, enabling our editorial team to update the website and providing a headless mode for developers to ingest data.