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For news & content apps

Editorial video that keeps readers in your app.

Your app is where your most loyal readers live. Vortex Media turns your journalism into a vertical video experience inside it, so readers find more to enjoy without leaving, and the video pays its own way.

Swipeable vertical storiesBuilt into your app
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Monetized in the feedCurated premium demand
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Native experience

Video that feels native to your app.

Short, swipeable video built into your product and styled like the features your own team ships.

  • A home screen rail of vertical stories
  • A full-screen video section readers swipe through
  • Watch next inside your articles
  • Your colors, your layout, your editorial rules
Watch section with vertical video inside a news app
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Content first

Your journalism comes first.

The best video for your app is the video your newsroom already makes. We build the experience around your clips, your social video and AI teasers created from your articles, reviewed by your editors.

  • Your newsroom and social video in one vertical feed
  • AI video teasers created from your articles
  • Your editors approve what goes live
News app feed mixing newsroom video, AI article teasers and curated video
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Curated video

Curated video, when you need it.

Large newsrooms publish a lot, but not always enough video to fill a feed every hour. Curated editorial video fills the gaps, chosen for your audience and held to your standards, so your own reporting stays at the center.

  • Matched to your audience and categories
  • Mixed with your content in the proportions you choose
  • Held to your brand safety and content policies
Tablet article with watch next videos and a vertical story on a phone
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Monetization

Monetization built in.

Video views earn with curated premium demand from buyers who want to appear next to trusted editorial content. Your policies decide what runs.

  • Curated premium demand in brand-safe placements
  • Any ad network or SSP through the Vortex OpenSDK
  • Google IMA and Google Mobile Ads support
Premium demandTrusted editorial context
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Every format

Every format your app needs.

Rewarded, interstitial, native, banner, and video formats, delivered through one SDK and placed where they respect your readers.

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Vertical VideoWeb · AppsFull-screen video between stories in a swipeable feed. Mobile-native creative, seen by mobile-native audiences.
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Vortex OpenSDK

One SDK. Every demand partner.

Integrate once on iOS and Android, then connect any ad network or SSP through Prebid Server, OpenRTB, VAST or native formats, without adding another SDK.

Vortex OpenSDK connecting an app to Prebid Server, OpenRTB, VAST, native, ad networks, SSPs and Google
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From Idea to Launch

Choose where video lives

A home screen rail, a dedicated video section, watch next in articles, or all three, planned with our team.

Add the SDK

Your iOS and Android developers integrate the native SDK with a few lines of code.

Grow together

Bring your own video, add curated content where it helps, and we tune placements and demand with you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, and we recommend starting there. Your newsroom and social video are what your readers come for, so the experience is built around them. AI teasers created from your articles add even more of your own journalism to the feed.

Curated editorial video fills the gaps. It is chosen to suit your audience and categories, mixed with your content in the proportions you set, and held to your content policies.

It is designed to extend it. Video sits in a rail, a dedicated section or watch next inside articles, and article teasers send readers back into your stories.

Rewarded video, interstitials, native in-feed ads, banners, and instream and outstream video, including ads inside the vertical video experience.

Yes. The Vortex SDK is native on both platforms and integrates with a few lines of code.

It is the open side of our SDK. Once it is in your app, you can connect any ad network or SSP through Prebid Server, OpenRTB connections, VAST or native formats, without adding another SDK for each partner.

Yes. The Vortex OpenSDK lets you keep the demand partners you already use and add curated demand from Vortex Media alongside them.

Yes. The SDK supports both, so it fits alongside the Google tools many app teams already run.

You do. You set content categories, brand safety rules and ad policies, and creative filtering keeps unwanted ads out of your app.

Reporting shows how placements, formats and demand perform, so you and our team can tune the experience based on what your readers actually watch.

Bring Editorial Video Into Your App

Talk to us about the right video experience for your readers and how it will earn.