Timepath Update July 2026: List + Map, Outro & Analytics

Last month was about covering the biggest moment of the year properly and fast. This month is about the harder question that arrives right after it: the spike leaves, and what do you have left?

A tournament ends, the summer schedule takes over, and half the newsroom is on holiday. That is when two things start to matter more than speed: whether your formats give readers a reason to come back, and whether you actually know which parts of a story worked. This update is built around both, with a format readers keep using, an ending that leads somewhere, and analytics that answer editorial questions. The editor itself was rebuilt in the same spirit: every job now opens as one full-screen Studio with a live preview, so a story takes minutes instead of menus.

GEO Story - List + Map format

The new List + Map layout turns a Bucketlist or City Guide into a place readers return to, instead of an article they finish once.

An editorial list sits beside a live map. Tapping a place moves the map, tapping a pin opens the place. Readers mark what they want to do and what they have done, build a personal list with a progress bar, and share their progress as a ready-made Instagram card carrying your logo.

Purpose: To give service journalism a format with the return visit built into it.

Key Benefit: Your guide becomes a tool the reader keeps using all summer, with your brand on every share.

Example Use Cases: City guides and neighbourhood guides Summer bucket lists and weekend tips Restaurant, terrace and festival selections Museum, hike and day-trip round-ups

Publish the guide once. Let every reader turn it into their own plan.

The Outro slide

Interactive stories used to end on nothing. Timeline and Collection now close with an Outro: a designed final slide carrying your message and your call to action.

Point it at a subscription page, the next story, a newsletter sign-up or a related interactive. Then see, in your analytics, how many readers reached the end and which call to action they clicked.

Purpose: To turn the end of a story into the start of the next one.

Key Benefit: Capture the readers who finished, at the moment they are most engaged.

Example Use Cases: Subscription and newsletter conversion after a long read Sending readers into the next chapter of a series Promoting a related quiz, poll or guide Credits, sourcing and corrections in one clear place

The readers who reach the end are your best readers. Give them somewhere to go.

Analytics that answer "did it work?"

Every product's analytics has been rebuilt to answer editorial questions instead of showing counters.

Quiz and Poll show what readers actually picked, which question lost them, and how confident the result is. Survey shows where people quit and what they answered before they did. Timeline, Liveblog and GEO Story show per-event performance and real time spent. Collection shows per-article impressions and read-more clicks. Above all of it, rebuilt workspace and organization dashboards show how your whole output is performing.

Purpose: To make the next story better, using evidence from the last one.

Key Benefit: Know which item, question or article did the work, not just that a story got traffic.

Example Use Cases: Deciding which formats to repeat next season Finding the question that drops half your respondents Proving interactive performance to editors and commercial teams Reporting engagement across an entire title or group

Stop guessing which parts of a story landed.

Why it matters

Peak moments prove a newsroom can move fast. Everything after them proves whether the strategy holds: on a normal Tuesday, in July, with two people and a summer guide to publish.

That is what this update is for. Formats readers come back to instead of finish. Endings that lead somewhere instead of stopping. An editor rebuilt around the job so producing an interactive is a matter of minutes. And numbers honest enough to change what you make next.

The moment always passes. The habit is what you keep.

These features are available now in the Timepath editor.

Curious how these new updates could improve your newsroom's workflow? Book a short demo session with our team!