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G75 Media website now HTTPS

Safe as houses – greater security for G75 Media clients

The G75 Media website has recently gained HTTPS accreditation, protecting site visitors against malicious activity while they’re on our site. After ten years using the standard HTTP protocol, last week’s upgrade reflects our commitment to ensuring everyone can browse our portfolio of published articles (or submit an enquiry about our copywriting services) in complete safety.

HTTPS websites encrypt information before it’s transmitted to the web browsers of individual visitors. This ensures any traffic between our server and the device you’re reading this on is protected against eavesdroppers and cyber-criminals. You’ll often see HTTPS preceding retail or ecommerce web addresses, where financial data is being exchanged and eavesdroppers would have a field day.

Even though our content production and copywriting services are highly celebrated, online criminals probably wouldn’t try to exploit your visit to our site today. Or would they? After all, the G75 Media website was created using the world’s most popular content management platform. Its sheer popularity makes WordPress a favoured target for spam and malware developers. WordPress software plugins are also susceptible to newly-launched malware – known as zero day attacks.

As part of the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation, G75 Media has to meet strict standards regarding the storage and management of client data. Elevating our website to HTTPS standard demonstrates our commitment to this process. It also places us ahead of many other content production agencies and media firms, who also lack our extensive client roster. A number of our copywriting agency rivals are still using HTTP, resulting in “Not secure” tabs appearing in Chrome or warning messages flashing up in Firefox. We take your safety a little more seriously.

If you already understand the principles of zero day attacks and end-to-end encryption, you might want to get in touch regarding our technical writing and technology journalism services. But don’t worry if we lost you after “standard protocol”. We’ve got everything secured.

Consumer advice? All in a day’s work…

After a thoroughly enjoyable break over Christmas, G75 Media has returned to a packed inbox and a busy schedule. Our first January job involves producing consumer advice articles for one of the UK’s leading price comparison firms. We’re currently writing four features a week for this client, providing practical advice about mobile phone contracts, broadband accounts and on-demand services.

We work with IT and computing firms on both sides of the Atlantic, writing everything from keyword-driven blogs to in-depth white papers and infographics. G75 Media’s founder Neil Cumins grew up in a family of amateur programmers and created his own art package in BASIC at the tender age of 13, so computing has always been an area of personal expertise. By researching topics like website hosting, WordPress and cybersecurity on a weekly basis, creating original content on these subjects has become as intuitive as writing about games consoles or streaming media services.

If you need any assistance with technology writing, consumer advice journalism or any other form of digital media content, get in touch with G75 Media for a quote. Wherever you are in the world, we’ll be able to find the right words for your products and services.

Copywriting without borders

It’s almost a decade since G75 Media was founded, with the intention of creating written communications and copywriting for businesses across Scotland. The dream of providing a local service for local people inspired our name, our business plan and our website content. Yet the company hasn’t evolved in the way we originally imagined…

Although we have several regular clients in central Scotland, G75 Media’s content production services have been utilised by companies in locations as diverse as France, the West Indies and Ireland. In the early hours of this morning, we received a new commission from an occasional client in Australia. The brief is to write an opinion piece about effective office design, for a leading Asian Pacific recruitment company.

East Kilbride and Melbourne are over 10,000 miles apart, but effective copywriting knows no borders. We’ll write in Australian English and invoice in Australian dollars, putting ten years of international property journalism and technology writing to good use. This particular article is being produced on a white label basis, so Antipodean readers will have no idea it was written half a world away from the sun-baked banks of Albert Park Lake.

Being able to write in different dialects has become an unexpectedly important aspect of our business, with two clients in America requiring weekly technology content in American English. That involves liberal use of the letter ‘z’ instead of the letter ‘s’, and different terminology – sidewalk rather than pavement, turn signal rather than indicator, and so on. Despite being fairly useless at impersonating American accents, we’re becoming highly adept at writing in a recognisably (or recognizably) Stateside manner.

Whether you’re reading this article in New York, New Delhi or New Zealand, G75 Media can produce cost-effective copywriting and journalism that’ll sound like it was written by a native. Your audience will never know that their content was created under cloudy South Lanarkshire skies. Contact us to find out how we can help you, wherever you are in the world…