PGA Magazine boasts a robust digital presence, but as the media landscape evolved, it faced growing challenges with traditional digital formats. The magazine’s flipbook-style PDF was non-responsive and difficult to navigate, especially on mobile devices.
After a meticulous three-year evaluation of alternative platforms, PGA Magazine chose Nxtbook Media’s Page Raft platform to revolutionize its digital publication. The decision was driven by PageRaft’s mobile responsiveness, ease of integration with social media, and innovative monetization features such as interactive sponsorship placements and pop-up banners.
The transition to PageRaft marked a decisive shift for PGA Magazine, transforming a flagship publication from a print-based format to a digital-first design with added functionality, such as video and social integration. Results came quickly, vastly improving readers’ engagement with the publication and streamlining the magazine’s production process.
With these powerful results, PGA Magazine became the standard: other partners soon wanted to shift their publications to PageRaft in response. PGA Magazine’s General Manager Julie Yuen explained, “It’s a really good story because from day one, we didn’t even know who Nxtbook was. Now, we have 10 different titles, and within that, around six different partners that we’re working with to produce these, most of them on a monthly basis.” Yuen explained to her partners, “We were using [PGA Magazine’s] example, that engagement and what we’ve now turned into our internal process for creating a PageRaft publication,” which led other partners to follow their lead.
