{"id":2941517,"date":"2025-10-01T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2941517"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:49:16","slug":"whats-new-in-arcgis-storymaps-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/constituent-engagement\/whats-new-in-arcgis-storymaps-october-2025","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (October 2025)"},"author":345372,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37131],"tags":[498022,80942,777312,756712,780822],"industry":[],"product":[36611,380802],"class_list":["post-2941517","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constituent-engagement","tag-express-maps","tag-filters","tag-whats-new-in-arcgis-online","tag-whats-new-in-storymaps","tag-whats-new-october-2025","product-story-maps","product-arcgis-storymaps"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":345372,"user_firstname":"Andria","user_lastname":"Olson","nickname":"Andria Olson","user_nicename":"aolson","display_name":"Andria Olson","user_email":"aolson@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2023-09-05 16:47:59","user_description":"Andria Olson is a senior content specialist on Esri's ArcGIS Storytelling team.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AndriaOlson_profile-213x200.png' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"}],"short_description":"ArcGIS StoryMaps introduces a new content page that features combined buttons, menus, and views, new filters, improved browsing, and more.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>ArcGIS StoryMaps is the professional tool for harnessing the power of maps to communicate your work using place-based storytelling. The easy-to-use builder enables you to combine maps, 3D scenes, embedded content, multimedia, and more to create an interactive narrative that can inspire interest \u2014 and action \u2014 from your readers.<\/p>\n<p>Each month, our team uses community feedback to help inform new capabilities that can enhance your storytelling adventures. Check out what\u2019s new this month!<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"quick\">Quick links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#content\">New StoryMaps content page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#more\">And more&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2 id=\"content\">New StoryMaps content page<\/h2>\n<p>Stories. Briefings. Collections. Templates. Themes. It all begins on what has historically been called your <strong>My projects<\/strong> page. But as your creative options in ArcGIS StoryMaps have expanded over time, it only made sense to expand your capacity for filtering through your content, too. 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