Contentful - All your content, one API

blogDetail.published May 13, 2014

knowledge-base-white-paper

blogDetail.subscribeCard.title

blogDetail.subscribeCard.description

We're excited to make Contentful, our API-first content management platform, available to the public today. Contentful makes it easy to create and manage content in one place - and publish it everywhere it needs to go: web, smartphones, tablets, signage, and whatever comes next.

Historically content management systems were built for page-centric websites and HTML-based templates. With Contentful, the content is completely separate from the presentation layer, so that you can develop custom experiences on any device using the tools of your choice instead of fiddling with limited template-based systems.

Contentful provides a web-based authoring interface that lets non-technical editors work with content after you configure your content model. Designers independently craft the interface for end-users, while our powerful APIs give developers a simpler way to load content into apps, websites, or even to build completely custom editing interfaces.

Battle tested

Contentful’s platform has been built for scale and now delivers tens of millions of API requests to content projects in production. More than 5,000 organizations tested our platform during our extended beta.

Our customers are some of the most innovative brands on the planet including Nike, global media companies like Viacom and Playboy, as well as top-notch creative agencies like Teehan+Lax and AQ. Contentful’s Content APIs are being used on very small mobile screens to large format, 70 inch multi-touch displays. See how our customers are using us on our customers page.

Legacy content management systems have long held the promise of content reuse on multiple screens and platforms. They promised no vendor lock in. They were expensive. They were complicated. With Contentful you no longer have to scale and maintain a large content management system or wonder how to move content in and out of the CMS. With Contentful you can simply focus on your content and building apps on top of our API.

New features

We’ve released numerous features too! Our web-based editing interface now allows content creators to add 3 and to easily manipulate images. We simplified the workflow for creative agencies and other organizations that work with multiple clients. We introduced new SDKs for iOS, Ruby and JavaScript. We now support delta-sychronization, which is super useful for travel guides and similar apps that need content available offline.

Learn more

The best way to learn more about Contentful is to give us a try. Check out Contentful to sign up for a free trial and start delivering your content to mobile (and non-mobile!) platforms today.

blogDetail.subscribeCard.title

blogDetail.subscribeCard.description

blogDetail.authors

Sascha Konietzke

Sascha Konietzke

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Contentful

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer. You can follow Sascha on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/s2o).

blogDetail.relatedArticles

Woman in gray suit and glasses smiling with laptop against blue background with digital icons including headphones and charts.
News

API traffic on Black Friday 2025 climbs 33% year over year to 4.6 billion calls

December 7, 2025

Two Contentful certification badges for Studio for Content Managers and Developers on a dark blue bokeh background
News

Upskill with Contentful Studio: New learning paths for developers and content managers

May 6, 2025

To help teams cut through complexity and deliver high-impact content faster, Contentful offers enhanced taxonomy and native external references (NER) in GraphQL.
News

Contentful Platform updates: Enhanced taxonomy and native external references

April 11, 2025

Contentful Logo 2.5 Dark

Ready to start building?

Put everything you learned into action. Create and publish your content with Contentful — no credit card required.

Get started