Streaming video, digital magazines and merch in one platform for Riptide

The problem

Riptide is a broadcasting and media production company specialising in bodyboarding content. It launched as a print magazine in 1989 and has since gone digital, expanding into video and merchandise. Its audience needed one place for every content type, to stream videos and cinema pieces, purchase merch, and read new and past magazine issues digitally.

Our approach

After a discovery phase focused on Riptide’s target demographic, we designed and built a website that operates like a streaming service (profiles, subscriptions, billing, play history and favourites) with curated content categories, search, digitised magazine issues and an integrated merch shop. A companion mobile app carries the full range of content, adding offline downloads and magazine bookmarking.

The outcome

Riptide’s catalogue (web pieces, podcasts, movies, galleries, magazine issues and merchandise) now lives on a single subscription platform across web and mobile, with the Riptide team curating categories and featured picks for their audience.

Related services: App Development, Website Development