Modernising
Audio Medica
Building a high-speed digital publishing platform, Google Gemini AI-driven curation engine, and a site-wide persistent background audio player for the world's leading authoritative source of oncology news.
AI Curation
UX & Performance
Algolia Search · Gemini AI
Resend · PostHog · Vercel

The Authority in Oncology Journalism
Audio Medica is the world's leading authoritative audio source of oncology news for cancer clinicians, oncology professionals, and cancer scientists. Powered by ex-BBC journalists and mentored by a globally renowned panel of cancer experts, the Audio Journal of Oncology (AJO) Podcast delivers rapid, high-impact conversational interviews with leading medical researchers directly to practitioners worldwide.
To keep pace with the fast-evolving world of cancer research, Audio Medica needed to replace a slow, complex WordPress system with a modern, high-speed digital publishing platform capable of scaling with their editorial ambition and meeting the rigorous demands of global clinicians.
From uploading media to automatically publishing on YouTube, updating podcast directories, sending subscriber newsletters, and indexing search.
Search speed when finding specific clinical trials, speakers, or medical topics across thousands of articles.
WordPress Bottlenecks
Under their previous website, editors faced significant administrative overhead and technological friction that slowed down active coverage at major international medical conferences:
- Slow publishing times: Uploading and organising heavy audio and video files was slow and prone to timeout failures.
- Manual distribution: Editors manually uploaded video versions to YouTube, formatted email newsletters, and pushed RSS updates separately.
- Cluttered CMS editor: Standard admin panels filled with confusing fields and irrelevant plug-in configurations.
- Sluggish Search: Finding specific clinical trials among years of legacy posts was slow, inaccurate, and failed to filter medical tags.
- Legacy Content Gaps: Migrations left missing transcripts, unstructured guest credentials, inconsistent tags, and unlinked academic papers.
Fast, Effortless Oncology Updates
For a busy doctor, cancer scientist, or surgeon, keeping up with the latest clinical trials is a constant challenge. Audio Medica solves this by reporting clinical trial breakthroughs from major international conferences (such as ASCO, ESMO, and AACR) and leading publications (like The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet).
The platform needed to allow busy professionals to listen effortlessly—whether exercising, cooking, or traveling—without technical friction, slow load times, or interrupted playback.
The Digital Publishing Ecosystem
A highly optimised digital workflow that automates CMS uploads, enriches raw content using Gemini AI, broadcasts feeds globally, and handles serverless user discovery.
Curation Pipeline
- » Secure legacy platform import
- » Clean, structured content database
- » Generative AI processing engine
- » AI-enriched medical summaries, speakers & keywords
Editorial Engine
- » Custom editor dashboard
- » Drag-and-drop media uploads
- » Automated secure file transfers
- » Built-in video hosting integration
Engagement
- » One-click subscriber newsletters
- » Automated podcast feed generation
- » Apple Podcasts & Spotify directory sync
- » Instant real-time updates
Infrastructure
- » Fast, search-engine-friendly pages
- » Instant sub-50ms search and filter
- » Global, reliable speed delivery
- » Built-in visitor and player insights
Intelligent Migration & AI Enrichment
The Problem: Migrating years of legacy journalism from an old system was a major obstacle. Standard tools regularly broke images, lost valuable transcripts, and failed to structure the deep medical metadata needed by practitioners. Furthermore, hundreds of historical articles lacked summary notes and speaker details.
The Solution: We designed a custom migration system that cleanly extracted and repaired all historical content, images, and transcripts. To bridge the metadata gaps, we built an AI-powered curation assistant that automatically processes transcripts to:
- Generate clinical, high-density bullet summaries in seconds.
- Preserve exact doctor and researcher credentials while scrubbing irrelevant conversation.
- Automatically extract and tag clinical trials, academic papers, and medical keywords so readers can discover them instantly.


Custom Editorial CMS & Media Workflows
The Problem: The old content editor dashboard was cluttered, slow, and full of distracting, irrelevant settings. Uploading large audio and video files frequently crashed the hosting servers, and publishing required editors to repeat identical steps across multiple platforms.
The Solution: We replaced the complex workspace with a streamlined editorial studio designed exclusively for medical journalism. We engineered automated background tasks to handle all media processing:
- Crash-Free Uploads: Editors drag and drop large audio files directly into their web browser. The system processes them in the background, automatically calculating playtimes without straining the hosting environment.
- One-Click YouTube Sync: When a video version is uploaded, our system handles YouTube publishing instantly, writing the correct title and tags, and framing it in a beautiful, responsive web player on the site.
Precision Search & Subscriber Automations
The Problem: Clinicians and medical researchers are exceptionally busy and have zero tolerance for slow interfaces. Finding a specific historical article or speaker profile was slow and inaccurate. Furthermore, notifying email subscribers of new updates required editors to manually copy and paste text into email software.
The Solution: We integrated a sub-50ms search engine and automated subscriber email systems directly into the publishing flow:
Doctors can filter search results instantly by speaker name, clinical conference, or topic series, and play interviews directly from the search results without navigating away. As soon as an article is published, editors can broadcast an beautifully styled newsletter to subscribers with a single click inside the dashboard.



Fast Performance & Native Background Audio
The Problem: The old platform was slow to load on mobile networks. Worse, standard web players immediately stop playing audio as soon as a user clicks to another page. Clinicians could not read transcripts, review bios, or browse episodes without their playback cutting out.
The Solution: We rebuilt the entire website architecture to ensure near-instant page load times on any network and custom-engineered a site-wide persistent audio player:
Listeners can freely browse the directory, search, and read transcripts without their audio ever pausing. The player fully supports native smartphone locked-screen audio controls, allowing doctors to listen on the go with their screens off.
Podcast Syndication & Operational Analytics
The Problem: Pushing new episodes to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other directories was a slow, error-prone manual task. Additionally, the business had no clear visibility into which interviews were being played, making it difficult to understand listener engagement.
The Solution: We automated syndication and integrated unified tracking systems:
- One-Click Sync: As soon as a document is published on the website, it is automatically pushed to all external directories (including Apple and Spotify) instantly.
- Editor Analytics: Play counts, listener locations, and popular episodes are automatically tracked and displayed inside the editor's dashboard.
- Global Edge Network (Vercel): The entire platform is deployed to Vercel's global edge network, serving pages and cached assets instantly from the nearest geographic server. This guarantees rock-solid stability even during high-traffic conferences.

Transformed Efficiency
For Editorial Staff
What used to require hours of manual work — uploading to FTP, generating video frames, mapping metadata keys, syncing YouTube uploads, formatting newsletters, and editing podcast XMLs — is now managed in a unified workspace inside five minutes.
For Doctors and Clinicians
A premium, mobile-optimised, ultra-fast interface with instant search capabilities, dynamic RSS feed delivery, and seamless uninterrupted background audio playback that keeps them at the forefront of cancer science.
Ready to fix your technology?
Let's map your systems, design reliable data pipelines, or align your platform with your operational goals. Book a call and we'll work it out.