GoLocal’s New Mobile Site – Video, Slideshows, and Much More

GoLocal’s New Mobile Site – Video, Slideshows, and Much More

GoLocalProv.com launches a new Mobile 2.0 version featuring video, new icon touch navigation, slideshows, enhanced social tools and constant updating. Today, consumers leverage their mobile devices to get their news and GoLocal has responded.

“We have built the new Mobile 2.0 platform to deliver the most engagement for Rhode Islanders who want local news on demand. The Mobile 2.0 GoLocalProv gives Rhode Islanders politics, sports, lifestyle and so much more, whether they are standing inline for coffee or waiting for a meeting,” said Josh Fenton, CEO of GoLocal24, parent company of GoLocalProv.com.

Features of Mobile 2.0:

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GoLocalTV videos will be posted real time – no waiting for 6 pm news

Enhanced social media tools – post a picture to Pinterest or an article to Facebook via mobile.

Slideshows – the new Mobile allows users to explore slideshows ranging from Best Burgers to the art of photographers like James Clayton Sattel.

Navigation – one touch scrollable navigation.

Growth of Mobile

New research from Pew Research released this week unveils that online and mobile news sources have significantly surpassed both radio and newspaper and are closing in on TV. Now, 39% say they get their news from online and mobile and that growth is expected to shoot up significantly. Radio has dropped to only 33% and newspaper to only 29%.

The growth of U.S. digital news grew by 17% in the past year, according to a report by Business Insider, “Mobile readers go to news sites more often, spend more time per visit, and read more articles per visit than desktop readers.”

Overwhelmingly, consumers use their mobile devices to get news and to use social media.

GoLocal's Mobile 2.0 platform works with all major operating systems; Apple iOS 3.0 (their oldest operating system) has some limitations.