Katerina Rozsnyo Pelanova

Have you ever wanted to know what the directors and senior managers of above-average digital agencies had planned in 2016 to stay ahead of their game? We did, so, we asked 300 of them across three continents! In this infographic, discover whether top digital agencies plan to invest more in software, hardware, or new employees. Read how much they charge for a project, which country charges the most, as well as some of the other key findings of the Kentico Digital Agencies Survey 2016.

Kentico and Millward Brown surveyed 300 senior managers and directors of digital agencies across three continents to reveal the strategies they have implemented and plan to implement to expand their capacity and outreach in 2016. In our report, you will learn whether they plan to invest more in software or recruitment and how successful digital agencies are taking proactive steps to adjust to the constant changes in their industry.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate those of you that weighed in – through submissions and votes – for shaping this year’s competition into our most successful yet. We saw the highest number of submissions ever, making the Kentico Site of the Year 2015 selection all the more elite and the voting all the more competitive.

The record-breaking number of entries for Kentico Site of the Year 2015 has meant that shortlisting the finalists has been harder than ever before. Not only were we impressed by the consistently high standard of the submitted websites, but Kentico can also boast a new fan club! Well, we have two websites belonging to companies that produce fans! 

Kentico’s latest Digital Experience Survey Infographic on smartwatches looks at buyers’ and potential buyers’ attitudes to buying, owning, and using smartwatches. Is this new technology yet another flash in the pan, or is it destined to become a significant channel through which to deliver engaging digital marketing content to end users?

Have you developed an extraordinary Kentico website? Then don’t keep it from the world! Get the recognition for your brilliant work you deserve by submitting it for Kentico Site of the Year 2015 now!

Gleanster’s most recent Gleansight Benchmark Report for WCM lists Kentico as Easiest to Deploy among nearly 40 industry vendors. Gleanster, a leading market research company, produces a variety of sector-specific reports detailing best practices in worldwide business. Their research focuses on five guiding principles: specificity, brevity, clarity, objectivity, and openness.

As an industry leading research and advisory company, Gartner is the go-to company for IT professionals in their search for technology-related insight necessary to make the right decisions. A place within the Magic Quadrant is highly sought after and highly competitive.

Your favorite videos are better than ever!
You’ve told us you love our Kentico Online Marketing Videos, that they help you understand what marketing automation, content personalization, and lead scoring are. But we also know that these videos used an older version of Kentico. 

 

Maybe you remember our call trying to find film stars for the new Kentico testimonials. Some of you took the challenge and got involved. Well, good news, the new Kentico video testimonials are live! Special thanks to all who participated and became our Kentico stars. And now, no more talking, start watching!

Before we announce the winner, we want to give a special thank you to everyone who nominated a site. Because of you, the voting public had a great selection of sites to vote for. This year, submissions increased nearly 40% over Kentico Site of the Year 2013. 

Kentico’s American partner Bit-Wizards had a banner night at the ADDY awards this year and we couldn’t be more excited for them. The ADDY awards, from the American Advertising Federation, are some of the biggest awards in the advertising industry. 

What do digital marketers really want to achieve in 2015? What tools are they going to use? Which trends are they giving the highest priority to? And finally, what do successful marketers do differently?  We asked them all of these big questions! Unveil the key findings of the Kentico Marketers’ survey in this infographic. 

The survey Kentico conducted with Millward Brown has one primary objective – to deliver the deepest insights possible into the digital marketing trends of 2015. Read this blog to learn a bit about the topics presented in this report, which details how successful digital marketers are proactively taking measures to adjust to the constant changes in their industry.

Only 4 days left to submit your project for the Kentico Site of the Year competition. Ready to prove that you‘re a Kentico hero?

Have you developed an extraordinary Kentico website? Don’t hide it from the world! Get recognition for your brilliant work and submit it for Site of the Year 2014 now!

Didn’t get to ‪Kentico Connection‬ Sydney this year? You can still learn how to create successful projects using ‪‎Kentico‬ 8 from MVP Bryan Soltis. Watch the recording of his session now or join us for Kentico Connection Prague or Boston!

As a reward for all of the nice congratulatory tweets that we’ve received during our 10-year anniversary celebrations, we’ve sent out 100 Kentico Special Edition T-shirts to our winners from all around the world. In return, we asked you all to do us just one, special favor – to share a photo of yourselves sporting your new Kentico tee. As always, you guys are awesome; we were thrilled that you all started bombarding us with so many cool pictures! 

It is always a great pleasure for us to see how web projects built in Kentico bring great results and accelerate our clients to success. Let us share with you this great video case study of St Andrews Links website, implemented by Kentico Gold Partner Precedent.

Who’d have thought that such a fast-paced, highly technical and innovative company could be hiding such dapper, classy and lock-up-your-daughters handsome young gentlemen? Don’t believe it? Check out our Mo Bros for yourself!

As a leading provider of powerful online marketing tools, Kentico is happy to sponsor one of the greatest marketing events in Europe this year. The Marketing Festival conference will take place in Kentico’s home town of Brno, Czech Republic, and an excellent agenda is already in place.

The second series of Kentico and Windows Azure Questions answered by Kentico's MVP Bryan Soltis is here! Bryan offers guidance on other tough areas when deploying to Azure. Want to know why your CDN-stored files always cache and never update? What the best way to manage a session in Windows Azure is? Check out his blog post for these and more!

What are the differences between open source systems and Kentico? See the infographic created by Web Design Magic... Whilst a great concept, open source Content Management Systems are less secure because they typically use a combination of modules created by many different developers that are never security tested as a whole allowing hackers to leverage security vulnerabilities. As there are so many different modules the systems are hard to upgrade and the weaknesses are often ignored, leading to exposure & ultimately the risk of getting hacked increases. 

It is no surprise to us that many of you dev guys have totally fallen in love with our KIM. It's no wonder; the Kentico Installation Manager makes life so much easier because you can really quickly create new sites, download the latest hotfixes and upgrades, and manage your Kentico installations. Kentico's MVP Bryan Soltis has written an in-depth blog post about our good friend KIM, and gives his thoughts on the site creation process. 

We are really happy to welcome Ilesh Mistry, Kentico Developer at MMT Digital, here on the Kentico Devnet Blog. Ilesh has been kind enough to share his experiences while developing the project of Pan Macmillan, one of the largest general book publishers in the United Kingdom, in which various Kentico CMS features were implemented. Learn more about the challenges the team faced and how they used Custom Tables, Custom Document Types and Custom web parts to achieve their goals and produce a fantastic end result.

In his recent blogpost, Kentico MVP Bryan Soltis answers various important questions related to Windows Azure. Are you curious what the difference is between a cloud service and a website? Where the best place is to store files? How multiple web sites are set up? Or how to point multiple geographic instances to a single web site? Read on, none of these questions will stay unanswered.

Kentico users may ask "Why should we upgrade to the new version?" Swimming in answers to this question, it was a real challenge for Adam Griffith of Get Started, Kentico's Australian Gold Partner, to limit his list of compelling reasons to just the top 7.

By deploying Kentico CMS to Windows Azure, you can expand your site’s availability and scalability at minimal cost. In his in-depth blog post, Bryan Soltis of Bit-Wizards will show you how to configure all of the most important settings and help you ensure that your website is as responsive as possible and always available. Let’s have a look at his list of top things you will want to configure.

Kentico Gold Partner Bit-Wizards introduces Kentico Mobile Manager for Windows 8 to the Marketplace, the new multi-site manager of Kentico websites from your Windows Mobile.

In his blog post, Michael Kinkaid of ecentricarts highlights the features he now can't imagine how he ever lived without. Though he limits himself to the top 7 features, he says there are MANY more to be found in version 7.

There have been a lot of things written about the great improvements that Kentico CMS 7 has to offer. Ryan Williams of DATA Inc. focuses on the little things that make a big difference and can increase developer productivity. Do you want to know which features Ryan is talking about? Read more…

Did you know that you can use Kentico CMS as a great platform for your Facebook projects and campaigns – mixing all the features of an established social network with all the advantages of an easy content management? Yes, you can! And the Wild Turkey Bourbon Facebook Campaign can prove it!

Continuing his review of new Kentico CMS 7 features, Brian’s mini blog series focuses on the newly-announced Auto Publishing feature which enables automatic publishing of content to Twitter and Facebook.

Creating E-learning websites has never been easier! Learning Academy Systems has launched a new extensive and clever learning management system called CPD Academy. Built on Kentico CMS for ASP.NET, it helps companies create their learning systems really quickly and easily while being able to adapt to their highly specific reguirements.

Boosting your business is not just about making the right decisions at the right time, but engaging in win-win relationships with partners you can trust and who help you to grow. Read more about how Australian Web agency, Get Started, shifted business gear with Kentico CMS.

Nowadays, there is little doubt that the business owner who ignores social networking as an essential marketing tool falls behind. But this doesn’t just mean collecting fans on Facebook or followers on Twitter. Find out how you can engage your customers and boost brand enthusiasm with your own social network.

What do you think? Is it possible to dramatically increase site traffic just by recreating a website? Yes, it is! Kentico’s Gold Partner, Bit-Wizards, deployed a new website for Hunt Engineering in Kentico CMS 6 and increased their site traffic by more than 175%!

One of the most common myths about content management systems is that open source solutions are free and therefore it just isn’t worth forking out for a paid system. But that’s not necessarily the case. What do developers with experience of both Kentico CMS and open source solutions think about it?

In his recent blogpost, our newest MVP, Brian McKeiver, focuses on one of the new features in Kentico CMS 6: A venerable content slider, sometimes also called an image rotator. Brian describes in detail how you can build it and set it up.

Kentico CMS is not just a content management system, but also an easy-to-use and powerful intranet solution. Many developers who have experience with both Kentico CMS and Microsoft Office SharePoint Solutions agree that Kentico CMS enables a more productive way of working, is more cost-effective and easier to deploy.

Kentico's gold partner Pixelbuilders has created a new video which describes how easily you can use Kentico CMS.