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media, news, and entertainment

Make sure every story looks perfect to every viewer

Applitools checks every page, ad slot, and video player against an approved baseline with Visual AI, so a broken layout or a stalled player gets caught before readers see it. A Deterministic Language Model runs the same check every time, so content that changes by the hour doesn't drown your team in false positives.

Catch real breaks, not normal content change

Visual AI flags actual layout and rendering problems, not the headlines, images, and modules that are supposed to change every hour.

Keep every ad slot and video player working

Applitools checks that ad containers render and video players load and play across devices, so a broken slot or a stalled player doesn't cost you readers.

Cover your whole site without writing more tests

Point Applitools at your sitemap and it builds visual checks across your pages automatically, so coverage doesn't depend on how many tests someone had time to write.

Where media sites break, and how Applitools catches it

Catch real layout breaks, not headline changes

Ignore normal content churn
Visual AI focuses on structural differences, so a new headline, photo, or story swap on a template page doesn't trigger a false failure.

Catch what a broken embed does to the page
A failed ad tag, video embed, or recommendation widget that shifts the whole layout gets flagged, even if no one wrote a test for that specific module.

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Keep images and ads working across every device

Validate players across browsers and devices
Applitools renders your pages in parallel across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and mobile browsers, so a player that fails on one browser doesn't ship.

Catch ad slots that load empty or misplaced
A visual check flags an ad container that failed to load, rendered at the wrong size, or pushed content off-screen.

Cover thousands of pages without thousands of tests

Crawl your sitemap to build coverage
Give Applitools a URL or a sitemap and it scans your site to build a test suite with Visual AI checkpoints already in place.

Update tests when your CMS template changes
Similar diffs get grouped across pages, so a template change means one review, not thousands of individual approvals.

Customer Testimonials

“Applitools has become essential to our process. It's helped us cut defects, speed up testing, and let our team focus on high-value work. Now, quality is truly a shared responsibility.”

Eric Terry
Sr. Director of Quality Control

“Thanks to Applitools and Continuous Integration, release times have been cut by 75%, a huge savings across the company and a major step forward as the company redefines itself to be 'digital first.' ”

Greg Sypolt
QA Director
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How media and entertainment companies use Applitools

Media teams publish constantly, often through CMS workflows and AI-assisted tools that move faster than manual QA can follow. Applitools adds a check that catches real breaks without flagging every expected content change, so speed doesn't come at the cost of a broken page.

Regional and localized editions

Multiple language or regional versions of the same site or app get checked in one run, so a translation that breaks layout doesn't slip through in just one edition.

Content across every screen

Images and layouts get checked on mobile, desktop, and set-top box or smart TV apps, so playback and controls look right no matter what screen a viewer is on.

Subscription and paywall flows

Signup, paywall, and account management screens get checked like any other critical path, so a broken checkout doesn't cost you a subscriber.

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