Case Study: CNN Philippines achieves faster news publishing and lower TCO with Magnolia CMS

More news, faster. As a leading media outlet, CNN Philippines relies on Magnolia to fuel its daily reporting

CNN Philippines, the country’s leading English-language news outlet, launched cnnphilippines.com to meet rising digital demand. Their legacy CMS was slow and inflexible, limiting development speed and breaking-news publishing; they needed faster content publication, greater customization, and improved editorial workflow without increasing overall budget.

By adopting Magnolia CMS — leveraging its Light Development framework and the Stories app — a single trained developer rebuilt and launched the site in two months. The new platform cuts time-to-market (microsites now launch in days), lowers total cost of ownership, and enables editors to publish up to 10 stories per day, significantly boosting editorial productivity and site performance.

CNN Philippines

Janine Peralta

Digital Editor