Naviga News

AI-Powered Publishing Innovation

Naviga End-of-Year Recap

Naviga is transforming the media industry with advanced, AI-powered publishing solutions that streamline workflows, support journalists, and modernize newsroom operations. Explore the latest Naviga news, including product launches, generative AI tools, customer go-lives, conference insights, and industry coverage. Discover how our AI-driven technology is helping publishers increase efficiency, automate content production, and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Selected Highlights of 2025

2025 marks a breakthrough year for Naviga as we introduce generative AI across our entire product suite, deliver next-generation editorial tools, and support major customer deployments worldwide. This year’s highlights showcase how our AI-powered publishing solutions, newsroom automation capabilities, and innovative platform updates help media organizations accelerate workflows and prepare for the future of digital and print content production.

INMA: Generative AI Initiative Blog

Bonnier plans, simplifies, manages expectations for successful print automation

See how Bonnier News partnered with Naviga Flow to deploy fully automated print production across dozens of newspapers — a major milestone in print-automation. The article dives into the real work behind “push-button publishing”: from redesigning layouts to redefining workflows and expectations. Discover how this combination of smart planning and automation is helping publishers scale print efficiently.

InPublishing: Press Release

Naviga introduces AI-powered editorial tools to support journalists and newsrooms worldwide

Naviga has launched a powerful suite of AI-powered editorial tools designed to streamline newsroom workflows and support journalists worldwide. From auto-tagging and suggesting images to AI-generated headlines, summaries and background prompts, these features help teams work faster and smarter — while keeping human editorial control at the heart of every story. Read on to see how Naviga is helping publishers embrace next-generation automation.

Events

Exclusive in-person event in London

Naviga AI & Automation Day and Abacus Insights 2025 – The Rise of AI

On 20 October, Naviga hosted two parallel AI-focused events in London. The sessions brought together customers and industry experts to explore practical applications of AI across publishing, subscriptions, marketing, and newsroom automation, featuring insights from organisations including Bonnier News, Newsquest, Sanoma Media Finland, William Reed, Dotdigital, Stripe, ClearDraft, and Miso.ai. The day combined strategic discussions, product innovation showcases, and valuable networking across the media ecosystem.

Naviga and Live X partner to deliver AI-powered support for media companies

Naviga has partnered with Live X to introduce AI-powered support agents for media and publishing organizations. As the only AI provider with native Naviga integration, Live X enables personalized, real-time customer interactions that help publishers improve engagement, reduce churn, and drive subscription growth.

Watch the on-demand webinar to see real-world examples of how AI support agents use Naviga data to drive smarter customer interactions.

Hearst Midwest Media Group Advances Naviga Rollout with Phase 6 Launch

Hearst Newspapers’ Midwest Media Group has successfully completed Phase 6 of its Naviga Ad and Naviga Plan rollout, bringing multiple additional titles live and further standardizing advertising and planning operations across Hearst’s portfolio on a unified, modern platform.

Paddock Publications Becomes First U.S. Customer to Launch Naviga Print Automation

Paddock Publications has gone live as the first U.S. customer using Naviga’s print automation solution, launching with two weekly publications and establishing a scalable foundation for additional titles planned in early 2026.

April 4, 2024

Naviga acquires the business and assets of Press Computer Systems

 Naviga further strengthens its commitment to providing greater value to the global media market

Bloomington, Minn.— April, __4__2024—Naviga Inc., a leading provider of software and services powering media-rich industries, today announced it has acquired the business and assets of Press Computer Systems (“PCS”) from National World.

PCS provides Software-as-a-Service technology solutions to a broad range of publishers, enabling closer collaboration across editorial, advertising and production processes. The acquisition represents one more step in Naviga’s commitment to provide the media industry with the ability to derive greater value from their technology investments.

“Naviga’s mission is to maximize the value of our solutions for our customers,” said Scott Roessler, Naviga CEO. “As media companies continue to navigate ongoing cost increases, they must be able to find innovative solutions capable of providing more functionality while integrating seamlessly with other products. By adding the PCS software and team to Naviga, we further enhance the capabilities and costs savings customers can realize through the use of Naviga.”

The acquisition also further strengthens Naviga’s commitment to the global media industry through the addition of more Europe-based resources and customers located in the United Kingdom.  PCS customers will also have immediate access to the existing Naviga ecosystem and community of products and resources. “We are thrilled to welcome the PCS customers and employees to Naviga,” said Michael Moore, Naviga President of Publishing. “We look forward to what we can achieve together and are confident this addition will benefit both the existing PCS customer base and the industry as a whole.”

Featured stories

Learn what we’ve been doing.

3 November 2022

ZINIO Partners with MotorTrend Group for Launch of the Hot Rod Digital Archives

ZINIO, the leading technology platform for digital magazines, has partnered with MotorTrend Group to digitally convert and provide access to over seven decades of the iconic HOT ROD Magazine, the most recognized brand in the world of high-performance cars since the brand was founded in 1948. HOT ROD will celebrate its 75th anniversary by providing free access to more than 70 years of prized archival content. Coinciding with the start of the SEMA Show on November 1st, classic car fans around the world can access the HOT ROD Digital Archives by registering for a free account at MotorTrend+.

Access to the content is delivered via the ZINIO Mobile Reader, embedded within the MotorTrend mobile app, and available on iOS and Android.

23 August 2022

New integration for Naviga Book and Subscription customers streamlines sales tax on orders

Naviga announced today that it has partnered with Avalara (NYSE: AVLR), a leading provider of tax compliance automation software for businesses of all sizes to automate sales tax calculations for Naviga Book and Naviga Subscription customers. This integration enables publishers using an ERP to automate their sales tax for orders and returns.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Avalara in order to offer this integration to our customers,” said Bill Everitt, General Manager of Book and Commerce at Naviga. “Naviga clients who use Avalara are able to save time and easily streamline sales tax on orders without needing to worry about the backend calculations.”

7 June 2022

ZINIO Announces the Launch of Audio Digest, a Narrated Compilation of a Magazine Issue’s Top Articles

ZINIO today announced they have released ZINIO Audio Digest, a new turn-key solution enabling publishers to create a human-narrated audio version of a magazine issue using premium voice-over talent. The solution offers readers a whole new way to experience magazine content, giving them the chance to listen to a selection of featured articles from an issue in a podcast-style format.

Each Audio Digest is 30-60 minutes in length and typically includes 3-10 articles, along with an intro. The resulting audio can be produced and delivered as a single compiled edition or as individual audio files for each article.

17 May 2022

Naviga Announces Expansion into the Asia-Pacific Market

Naviga Inc., announced today that it has expanded its presence into the Asia-Pacific market, allowing the company to better meet the needs of businesses in the region with localized engagement and customer support.

Plans to expand into the APAC region were initiated due to an increased demand for Naviga’s products and services. The new office, located in Sydney, Australia, is the company’s 18th global location. Naviga will be offering the entire suite of their Content Engagement Platform in Asia-Pacific, which includes numerous digital first and print technology solutions for advertising, content management, audience engagement, and digital distribution.

22 Mar 2022

Naviga Selected by Bayard Inc. to Provide an Innovative Bulk Subscription Solution

Naviga Inc. today announced that they were selected by Bayard Inc, a 140-year-old international publisher of periodicals, books, and worship & devotional materials, to provide an innovative solution that drives bulk digital subscriptions.

Bayard’s business initiative utilizes Naviga’s Fulfillment Portal. This product allows Bayard to provide real-time delivery of bulk digital subscriptions, with the ability for subscription owners to grant entitlements underneath that subscription to other individuals. This offers a solution for remote learning, where classrooms needed a secondary option for delivering bulk materials to students after COVID-19 changed the learning landscape. While teachers can still manage subscriptions for traditional print fulfillment, they now also have the ability to manage and grant entitlements to their students who need access to digital learning materials outside the traditional classroom setting.

 

8 Mar 2022

Naviga acquires Abacus to further expand the digital subscription capabilities of its innovative Content Engagement Platform

Naviga Inc., a leading provider of software and services powering media-rich industries, today announced it has acquired Abacus, a United Kingdom headquartered SaaS digital subscription and audience insight supplier whose customers include major publishers, professional institutions and corporate brands.

Abacus provides a unique proprietary Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Digital Experience Platform (DXP) which may be used independently or combined to form a powerful solution that can drive the entire content delivery process from content creation and production to delivery and audience analysis. The company also provides a complementary set of services, including customer success consultancy and a subscription bureau for order fulfillment.

 

29 Jul 2021

Naviga is proud to announce that the Pacific Daily News has gone live on the Naviga Ad Platform.

The Daily News chose to modernize from their legacy ad platform in April of 2021. With a tight deadline to leave their old environment, they were able to go live in just 90 days! Modules implemented include: CRM, Digital and Print Order processing, Billing, Collections and a Classified Advertising Self Service Portal. In addition, The Daily News implemented Naviga’s CircPro module to manage their Circulation.

The Naviga Ad System is a suite of modules that cover all aspects of the Advertising cycle, from sales to orders to cash. Naviga Ad is a cloud based system hosted in AWS, enabling users to work from anywhere via a standard web browser.

About the Pacific Daily News

The Pacific Daily News, located in Hagåtña, Guam, is a daily newspaper printed seven days a week. In February 2021, the Daily News was purchased from Gannett by local businessman Kaleo Moylan, driving the need to move to a new platform quickly and efficiently. Their first publications date back to 1950. Visit the Pacific Daily News at https://www.guampdn.com/

3 Mar 2021

Naviga Inc. expands its global reach through acquisition of Miles 33

 “We’re excited to welcome Miles 33 and its customers to the Naviga family,” said CEO of Naviga, Scott Roessler. “Miles 33’s patented technology combined with Naviga’s Content Engagement Platform will further advance the capabilities available to publishing teams operating in today’s complex environment and allow those teams to use a single and unified platform to drive audience engagement, advertising sales, content management and digital media commerce.” 

15 Jul 2020

Puls Biznesu Expands Digital Capabilities with Naviga’s Content Solutions

Naviga announces that Puls Biznesu, the leading financial media group in Poland, has contracted to implement Naviga Writer, Creation Tools and Open Content. The solutions will modernize the Puls Biznesu newsroom with a streamlined platform for creating, enriching and publishing content across all media channels.