Case Study: Cafeyn achieves faster content discovery and higher subscriptions with Algolia

Cafeyn Three times as many searches + a 10% boost in subscriptions

Cafeyn, a digital magazine and article publisher, needed a faster, more reliable way to help readers discover content across the 150 new issues and articles it publishes each day. Its previous open-source search tool was slow, hard to customize, and limited users to exact title searches, often returning poor results for imperfect queries. Cafeyn turned to Algolia to improve search and content discovery.

Algolia implemented a more flexible, high-performance search experience that indexed content faster and enabled users to search by topic, keyword, or entire magazine. The results were strong: Cafeyn achieved 2x faster search and discovery, a 3x increase in search usage, and a 10% boost in subscriptions. Algolia also helped Cafeyn better customize how content is surfaced to readers.

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Marine Saffar

Chief Technology Officer