Energy Connects serves a global audience with news, analysis, interviews and videos covering the full energy value chain.
To support a growing volume of content, Phases implemented scheduled Bloomberg and Vimeo integrations with category-based data synchronisation. Elasticsearch was added to make large amounts of content faster and easier to search.
About Energy Connects
Energy Connects is a global news platform covering oil, gas and LNG, renewables, hydrogen, utilities, decarbonisation and energy technology.
The platform reports an audience of more than 2 million energy professionals and over 500,000 monthly website visitors. Its content includes daily news, interviews, opinion pieces, videos, podcasts, webinars and reports for readers across major global markets. Energy Connects audience statistics
With content arriving from several sources and covering many industries, regions and formats, the underlying platform needed to manage data efficiently while helping readers find useful information quickly.
The challenge
Energy Connects needed to bring external news and video content into its website without creating separate manual publishing processes for every source.
The technical requirements included:
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Synchronising Bloomberg content at scheduled intervals
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Importing Vimeo content using the same category structure as the website
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Placing imported content in the correct sections
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Managing an expanding volume of articles and media
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Providing fast search across a large content library
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Keeping information current without placing unnecessary work on the editorial team
The integrations also needed to fit the existing content structure. Importing data alone would not be enough. Each item had to appear in the appropriate energy topic or content category so readers could reach it through the website’s normal navigation and search.
The solution
Phases implemented a content integration and search setup built around three main components.
Scheduled Bloomberg content synchronisation
The Bloomberg integration synchronises content with Energy Connects at defined intervals.
Category-based mapping places incoming articles within the corresponding sections of the website. This allows Bloomberg coverage to appear alongside Energy Connects’ own editorial content while maintaining the platform’s established topic structure.
The scheduled process reduces repetitive content handling and helps the website publish timely market and industry coverage more consistently.
Vimeo integration for video content
Video plays an important role across Energy Connects, from leadership interviews and event discussions to webinars and industry analysis.
Phases integrated Vimeo with the platform so relevant video data can be synchronised automatically. Videos are organised according to the website’s categories, allowing them to appear in the appropriate sections without requiring teams to recreate the information separately.
This gives Energy Connects a more efficient way to manage its growing video library while preserving a consistent experience across written and visual content.
Elasticsearch for high-volume content search
As the number of articles, videos and other resources increases, standard website search can become slower and less effective.
Phases integrated Elasticsearch to index and retrieve large volumes of Energy Connects content efficiently. This gives the platform a dedicated search layer designed for datasets that continue to grow.
Elasticsearch helps users reach useful content across different energy topics, regions and formats without relying entirely on the core website database to process every search request.
The impact
The implementation gave Energy Connects a stronger technical foundation for managing content from internal and external sources.
Key improvements include:
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Scheduled synchronisation of Bloomberg and Vimeo content
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Category-based placement of imported articles and videos
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Less repetitive work when managing third-party content
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Faster retrieval across a growing content library
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A consistent structure for editorial and externally sourced material
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Greater capacity to support future content growth
The platform can now manage a broad mix of energy news and media while making that information easier for its global audience to access.
Supporting a global energy audience
For a platform serving millions of energy professionals, publishing content is only one part of the requirement. Information must also arrive on time, appear in the right context and remain easy to find as the library expands.
The work delivered for Energy Connects brings content synchronisation, categorisation and search together within one platform. This allows the editorial operation to manage a larger volume of information while readers receive a more consistent experience across news, analysis and video.
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