Streaming video, digital magazines and merch in one platform for Riptide

The problem

Riptide is a broadcasting and media production company specialising in bodyboarding content. It launched as a print magazine in 1989 and has since gone digital, expanding into video and merchandise. Its audience needed one place for every content type — to stream videos and cinema pieces, purchase merch, and read new and past magazine issues digitally.

Our approach

After a discovery phase focused on Riptide’s target demographic, we designed and built a website that operates like a streaming service — profiles, subscriptions, billing, play history and favourites — with curated content categories, search, digitised magazine issues and an integrated merch shop. A companion mobile app carries the full range of content, adding offline downloads and magazine bookmarking.

The outcome

Riptide’s catalogue — web pieces, podcasts, movies, galleries, magazine issues and merchandise — now lives on a single subscription platform across web and mobile, with the Riptide team curating categories and featured picks for their audience.

Related services: App Development, Website Development