AN Buzz

AN Buzz is the self-service revenue channel for The Architect's Newspaper — firms across the AEC industry write and pay to place announcements in front of AN's audience, sold as a package that runs the post on archpaper.com, includes it in all five regional Late Edition newsletters, and gives it a dedicated @archpaper Instagram Story. Authors register, draft in a rich-text editor, upload and manage their own images, preview the post exactly as it will run, then pay and submit it for editorial review.

Payment is handled two ways: a direct Stripe checkout per post, or prepaid credit packs drawn down at submission, with balance, checkout, redemption and session verification each as their own endpoint so a failed webhook can't silently consume a credit. Posts move through a status machine — draft, submitted, published, rejected — with retraction and deletion both refusing to touch anything already published, and email alerts firing to the author and the desk on each transition. A separate admin area handles the review queue, transactions, and user management.

Built on Nuxt 3 with Supabase for auth and data, S3-backed media, and PostHog for analytics. It sits alongside the WordPress site rather than inside it: published posts are read back from the archpaper.com REST API through a cached server route, so the Buzz landing page always reflects what actually ran.