Sector · Publishers & media
IT Services for Publishers & Media Companies that Scale with Your Audience
CMS work, post-migration SEO recovery, and subscription engineering for UK publishers and media brands — including national consumer-magazine titles.

Overview
Publishers run on traffic, scale, and the editorial workflow that produces both. We’ve kept national magazine titles indexed through CMS migrations, rebuilt subscription paywalls, and cut hosting costs on forums with millions of posts.
The honest middle of this work is migrations. Editorial teams are loyal to their authoring tools for good reasons, paywalls accumulate edge cases that don’t show up until cutover, and post-migration SEO is the highest-risk thing a publisher can do to organic traffic. We plan for that — URL mapping, redirect strategy, indexability checks — rather than discovering it on the day.
Past work includes a post-migration SEO audit for BBC Discover Wildlife (published by Our Media), where targeted recommendations took traffic past pre-migration levels, plus subscription, CMS, and SEO engagements across other Our Media titles.
Services
Where we tend to start with publishers & media teams.
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Professional CMS Development
We have helped maintain and develop high traffic websites built on bespoke, headless or more well known content management systems like WordPress, Shopify, Ghost, Drupal and Django.
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SEO Audits & Optimisation
Improve search rankings and increase traffic with data-driven SEO audits, technical fixes and clearer implementation guidance.
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Membership & Subscription Integrations
We integrate subscription platforms with your CMS and CRM, ensuring secure, seamless access for different user levels and actionable user data for your team to analyse.
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Bespoke Development
For ambitious publishers and media companies, we build bespoke systems designed to give you a competitive edge — from streamlining photo uploads and processing, to delivering rich, interactive content that keeps your audience engaged. A2ZTECH has the technical expertise to make it happen.
The process
Audit first — performance, indexability, editorial workflow, and where money currently leaks. The roadmap that follows is sequenced around what won’t break a publishing schedule. We work alongside in-house engineering and editorial teams rather than replacing them, and tend to stay engaged through the long tail of post-launch tuning.
Publishers & media projects
What it looks like in practice.
BBC Discover WildlifePublishers & MediaPost CMS Migration SEO Audit
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Got a system worth building? Let's talk it through.
Tell us what you're trying to solve. We'll come back inside two working days with honest thoughts on scope, approach, and what a working partnership could look like.
- hello@a2ztech.co.uk
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- Building since
- 2003