Joomla has achieved a major new milestone: this well known open source CMS has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, an initiative backed by the United Nations. This well known open source CMS has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, an initiative backed by the United Nations.
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Headless CMS and DXP are not quite taking off for these reasons
When choosing a CMS, many parameters must be considered. One of them is undoubtedly the choice between a traditional monolithic architecture, in which backend and frontend remain an inseparable marriage, or choosing the modern headless architecture. Opting for the latter has many advantages and some drawbacks, but it seems the market has not correctly perceived those advantages or has thought that the drawbacks are too great, since at CMS MAG we do not see a strong reception for headless in Spain.
(more…)AI cost savings are not enough
Opinion piece by the director of CMS MAG, Jorge MediavillaTime flies. Before you know it you find yourself pushing fifty and that, whether you like it or not, gives you some experience. Enough to know that if the plan in a company or another organization like a political party is to cut costs, then you had better look for another party or company.
(more…)A study shows that the traffic major AI platforms send to news outlets is negligible
A recent study by GfK DAM, the official measurement system for Spain’s media industry, is very clear about artificial intelligence: less than 0.2% of queries to tools like ChatGPT or Perplexity end in a click to a news story. In this context, the challenge for news outlets is enormous because it is no longer a matter of big tech leaning toward zero click, it is that it is truly almost zero.
(more…)A study shows that the traffic that major AI platforms send to media outlets is negligible
A recent study by GfK DAM in Spain is very clear when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI): less than 0.2% of queries to tools such as ChatGPT or Perplexity end in a click through to a news story. In this context, the challenge for media outlets is enormous, since it is no longer just a trend among big tech companies toward zero click, it is that the figure is in practice almost zero.
(more…)A new Spanish American media outlet is renewing itself with Arc XP
On LinkedIn we have come across several posts indicating that the Argentine outlet El Cronista, one of the most important in the economic field, is already operating with The Washington Post technology. It is a new client for Arc XP in Spanish speaking Latin America, a region where it has achieved wide adoption.
(more…)Forrester Wave Q4 2025 for DXP: Adobe, Optimizely, Salesforce and Sitecore as Leaders
At CMS MAG we have had access to the Forrester Wave or Forrester Wave report in which we can see the global leaders in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP in its English acronym).
(more…)Adobe acquires Semrush for 1.9 billion dollars.
Adobe and Semrush Holdings have reached an agreement valued at 1.9 billion dollars for the services of the latter, a well known company that provides SEO and GEO search data to businesses and media outlets, to become part of the former. Adobe already has a large array of products aimed at marketing professionals.
(more…)Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, admits his biggest mistake
In this new blog post, Dries Buytaert, who founded Drupal and spent many years as one of Acquia’s most senior leaders, openly shares what he sees as one of the biggest mistakes in Acquia’s history. The mistake in question was shutting down a product called Acquia Gardens, a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform that allowed anyone to create Drupal websites without needing to write code.
(more…)Creating WordPress blocks is easier than ever with the new Telex
Automattic has introduced Telex, an experimental tool that generates WordPress blocks using generative AI from natural language instructions with the goal of speeding up development and reducing technical complexity. Telex is designed to turn descriptions into functional blocks and for the time being it is offered as an experiment free of charge (in the future we will see whether it does not become a paid service).
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