Hometown News Hosting

Our-Hometown, Inc. supplies newspaper website hosting that includes news and advertising conversion services. We focus on making our customers’ lives easier and profitable. Every week, we process about 3,500 pages of our newspaper customers’ content that includes over 6,000 articles, 7,500 display ads and tens of thousands of classifieds.

We provide a complete turnkey website that provides high reader and advertiser value. Publishers can generate profits from online display ad sales, regular web ads and a Paywall. Designed for medium to small weekly and daily newspapers requiring minimal effort on the newspaper's part

We have been dedicated to continuous improvement of our products and services since our founding over 10 years ago. The result is highly reliable and functional products that focus on the reader, advertiser value and publisher profits, rapid turn-around times, and world-class hosting services.

Ease of use is another one of our tenets. We continue to increase our rate of improvement and won't allow our products to be hard to use or provide low value.

Check out a few papers on our latest template: The Derrick, Thomasville Times, South Alabamian and Clarke County Democrat.

Recently added newspapers

08/05/2010 - Flint Township View of Flint Township, MI
08/05/2010 - Swartz Creek View of Swartz Creek, MI
07/29/2010 - Waitsburg Times of Waitsburg, WA
04/01/2010 - West Seneca Bee of West Seneca, NY
04/01/2010 - Orchard Park Bee of Orchard Park, NY
04/01/2010 - East Aurora Bee of East Aurora, NY
04/01/2010 - Cheektowaga Bee of Cheektowaga, NY
03/31/2010 - Clarence Bee of Clarence, NY
03/30/2010 - Ken-Ton Bee of Ken-Ton, NY
03/18/2010 - Lancaster/Depew Bee of Lancaster and Depew, NY
03/17/2010 - Courier Journal of Florence, AL
02/13/2010 - Cincinnati Herald of Cincinnati, OH
01/21/2010 - River Current News of Duvall, WA
01/08/2010 - Hometown Focus of Virginia, MN
01/08/2010 - Norfolk Boomerang of Norfolk, MA
12/18/2009 - Jewish Press of Tampa and Pinellas County, FL
10/29/2009 - Mariposa Gazette of Mariposa, CA
10/12/2009 - The Cord of Blinn College, TX
10/01/2009 - Currents of Fairfield University, CT
09/16/2009 - Kingsville Record and Bishop News of Kingsville, TX
09/15/2009 - Clarion News of Clarion, PA
09/15/2009 - The Derrick of Oil City, PA
09/02/2009 - Sanilac County News of Sandusky, MI
08/31/2009 - The Banner of Brown City, MI
08/30/2009 - Tri-County Citizen of Chesaning, MI
08/27/2009 - The Burton View of Burton, MI
08/27/2009 - Grand Blanc View of Grand Blanc, MI
08/27/2009 - The Davison Index of Davison, MI
08/27/2009 - Lapeer Area View of Lapeer, MI
08/26/2009 - Huron County Press of Bad Axe, MI
08/19/2009 - The County Press of Lapeer, MI
07/14/2009 - Plymouth Review of Plymouth, WI
07/02/2009 - Punta Gorda / Port Charlotte Florida Weekly of Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, FL
06/24/2009 - The Sun of Hummelstown, PA
06/19/2009 - Spencer Evening World of Spencer, IN
05/28/2009 - Rockdale Reporter of Rockdale,TX
05/16/2009 - Cook County News Herald of Grand-Marais, MN
05/13/2009 - Tribuna of Danbury, CT
05/12/2009 - Stanwood/Camano News of Stanwood, WA

Complete customer list

Hometown Buzz

Study appears in "Paywall" issue of Editor and Publisher
August 12, 2010
The August 2010 print edition of Editor and Publisher referenced our study of paywall pricing at weekly newspapers in an article titled, "Newspapers' PERILOUS PAYWALL Moment" as a sidebar titled "Are small-town paywalled sites undercharging?".

Study: Daily Newspaper Paywalls Earn $7.80/month and Add 3.5% to Total Circ
August 9, 2010
Our-Hometown, Inc. released the results of a study of 13 daily newspaper websites that offer online-only subscriptions. A demand curve that plots subscribers expected by price charged is presented. The impact of the paywall on website traffic and print subscriptions are discussed. Read more...

Our-Hometown Releases New Template
July 14, 2010
Our-Hometown, Inc. introduces its first completely new template designed specifically for the Drupal content management system. Read more...

Study: Publishers Charging Too Little for Online
July 6, 2010
Our-Hometown, Inc. released a study this week titled,
Theory of subscription pricing for weekly community newspaper websites, which indicates many newspaper publishers utilizing paywalls may be undercharging readers for website access. Read more...

Production Performance Studies Show Impressive Results
June 23rd, 2010
During internal studies of our performance we discovered that we've converted 596,504 newspaper pages from PDF to HTML in the last three and 3/4 years. Read more...

Two Our-Hometown Customers Win Awards
June 14th, 2010
Our-Hometown, Inc. would like to congratulate The Lakota Country Times on recently winning the 2010 South Dakota Newspaper Association’s award for Best Newspaper Website; and The Trinity Journal on winning first place in the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspaper Contest (4,301-11,000 circulation category). Read more...

Our-Hometown Adopts Drupal as its Content Management System for All Newspaper Websites
January 25, 2010
Our-Hometown has spent the last several months transitioning all of our customers to Drupal, a new, state of the art, open source content management system. Read more...

The Derrick's Pay Wall a Success
January 25, 2010
One of our newest customers, The Derrick, has been featured in Editor & Publisher as an example that pay walls in the community newspaper business can be a success. Read more...

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