Any­graaf and Ylä-Sa­takun­nan Sanomale­hti Oy are ex­cit­ed to an­nounce the re­new­al of the on­line ser­vice for the lo­cal news­pa­per Ylä-Sa­takun­ta, with the up­dat­ed web­site sched­uled to launch in ear­ly 2026.

The re­new­al fo­cus­es on en­hanc­ing mo­bile us­abil­i­ty, im­prov­ing ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty, and sup­port­ing new ways of con­sum­ing dig­i­tal con­tent. Strength­en­ing ad­ver­tis­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties and ex­pand­ing ad­ver­tis­ing ca­pac­i­ty re­main cen­tral pri­or­i­ties.

This project marks an­oth­er step in the long-stand­ing part­ner­ship be­tween Any­graaf and Ylä-Sa­takun­nan Sanomale­hti Oy, which be­gan in 1998. In 2020, Ylä-Sa­takun­ta adopt­ed a dig­i­tal-first pub­lish­ing mod­el, in­tro­duc­ing the cur­rent web­site—de­vel­op­ment has con­tin­ued steadi­ly ever since.

The or­ga­ni­za­tion now us­es mod­ern brows­er-based ver­sions of AProf­it, CProf­it, and eNeo, while al­so in­vest­ing heav­i­ly in mul­ti-chan­nel me­dia sales. As part of the up­com­ing re­new­al, the eNeo ed­i­to­r­i­al sys­tem will be en­hanced with new AI-pow­ered fea­tures, and sub­scribers will gain ac­cess to a new user ac­count sys­tem de­signed to im­prove the man­age­ment of sub­scrip­tion cre­den­tials.

We look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing this suc­cess­ful col­lab­o­ra­tion and de­liv­er­ing a mod­ern, ef­fi­cient, and fu­ture-ready dig­i­tal ex­pe­ri­ence for Ylä-Sa­takun­ta’s read­ers, ad­ver­tis­ers, and ed­i­to­r­i­al teams.

“Cus­tomer-pro­vid­ed wire­frames and re­quests have giv­en us an ex­cel­lent foun­da­tion on which we have added our own vi­sion of a new on­line ser­vice mod­el for a lo­cal news­pa­per. The re­new­al cen­ters on a user in­ter­face de­signed en­tire­ly for lo­cal news­pa­per needs, with mo­bile use and ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty as top pri­or­i­ties. We use up-to-date HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS so­lu­tions as well as WCAG 2.1 AA ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty guide­lines,” says Any­graaf’s Prod­uct Line Man­ag­er Eeli Pulkki­nen.

“Any­graaf has proven to be a re­li­able and de­vel­op­ment-ori­ent­ed part­ner that lis­tens care­ful­ly to ideas aris­ing from the lo­cal news­pa­per en­vi­ron­ment. Both par­ties have a strong in­ter­est in the re­new­al, as dig­i­tal dis­tri­b­u­tion is ex­pect­ed to be­come the pri­ma­ry de­liv­ery chan­nel for lo­cal news­pa­pers over the site’s life­cy­cle,” says Juk­ka Huikko, CEO of Ylä-Sa­takun­nan Sanomale­hti Oy and Ed­i­tor-in-Chief of Ylä-Sa­takun­ta.

“It is in­spir­ing to de­vel­op a lo­cal news­pa­per’s on­line ser­vice con­cept from a clean slate, with mo­bile use lead­ing the way. In the re­new­al, we are in­vest­ing es­pe­cial­ly in us­abil­i­ty and ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty, and cre­at­ing new so­lu­tions that suit mod­ern read­ing habits. In ad­di­tion, the ser­vice en­ables per­son­al­ized read­ing ex­pe­ri­ences and makes use of AI to di­ver­si­fy jour­nal­is­tic con­tent,” says Janne Ahramo from Any­graaf’s so­lu­tion sales.

For more in­for­ma­tion:

Juk­ka Huikko

CEO, Ylä-Sa­takun­nan Sanomale­hti Oy

Ed­i­tor-in-Chief, Ylä-Sa­takun­ta

juk­ka.huikko@ylasa­takun­ta.fi

+358 29 170 6681

Janne Ahramo

So­lu­tion Sales, Any­graaf Oy

janne.ahramo@any­graaf.fi

+358 400 617 562