Industry expertise

Platforms for independent sports media

Own the audience, membership, and publishing experience.

Independent sports media needs more than a publication template. We build subscription platforms that combine editorial workflows, premium content, community, interactive tools, and timely fan experiences.

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What the site needs to do

Built around the decision your customer needs to make.

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Paid membership

Design registration, subscription, account, and access-control flows that feel like one coherent product.

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Editorial operations

Give writers and editors flexible publishing tools without forcing the audience into a generic news template.

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Fan utilities

Add data-driven tools, live information, podcasts, notifications, or games where they deepen the membership value.

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Direct community

Create a durable relationship with readers through accounts, discussion, alerts, and owned audience data.

Our approach

A publication and software product in one system.

One team plans the strategy, content structure, design, development, integrations, and measurement as a connected customer experience.

  • Subscription, entitlement, and account architecture
  • Structured editorial workflows and content management
  • Interactive tools, sports data, podcasts, and notifications
  • Progressive web app and performance engineering
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NewOrleans.Football homepage showing featured Saints coverage and member content

Relevant client work

Client project · Full-stack development

NewOrleans.Football

Sterango built the subscription sports-media platform, including its publishing system, community experience, interactive football tools, and installable web app.

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What success looks like

A site tied to business outcomes.

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A stronger reason to subscribe

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Publishing tools shaped around the newsroom

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A direct, owned relationship with readers

Common questions

Sports Media Platform Development questions we get asked.

Can the site handle live scores or standings?

Yes, pulled from a data source rather than updated by hand. Anything requiring manual updates during a game will not survive a real season — the volume is relentless and the moment accuracy slips, readers leave.

How do we publish frequently without the site becoming a mess?

Structure decided up front — how content is categorised, what gets promoted, what ages out. Publishing volume is not the hard part. Sites collapse under their own archive because nobody planned for the thousandth article.

Does the site need to support video?

If video is part of your output, it needs to be planned in rather than embedded as an afterthought. Video changes page speed, layout, and how people navigate, and retrofitting it into a text-first design rarely goes well.

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Share what you are building or fixing. We’ll reply with concrete next steps.

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collin@sterango.com

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