Daylife
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Type of site | B2B cloud media services |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Owner | NewsCred |
| Created by | Daylife, Inc |
| URL | http://daylife |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | Jan 2006 |
| Current status | Defunct |
Daylifewas an online publishing company that offered cloud-based tools for web publishers, marketers, and developers. It provided digital media management tools and content feeds to publishers, brand marketers and developers. Daylife was founded in 2006, raised $15 million from several investors, includingGetty Images,[1]and was acquired in 2012 by NewsCred.[2][3]The company was headquartered in downtownNew York City.
Daylife's products included the Daylife Publisher Suite, a range ofAPIs,and a set of "hosted solutions" including Smart Topics, Smart Galleries, and Smart Sections.[4]The hosted solutions were all launched in partnership with Getty Images, which offers publishers a wide range of multimedia tools. Daylife's technology analyzed over 100,000 curated content feeds, which enabled publishers to curate and automate media for use in proprietary content.[5]
Clients includedUSA Today,Bloomberg Businessweek,NPR,Mashable,Sky News,Forbes,andThomson Reuters.
The company shut down in 2016.[6]
Publisher Suite
[edit]The Daylife Publisher Suite allowed publishers and marketers to deploy media features and apps from the cloud onto any digital channel.[7]
Smart Galleries
[edit]Smart Galleries is a suite of tools that allowed publishers to create image galleries as customizable widgets or in full-page formats. Daylife and Getty Images launched Smart Galleries in September 2009[8]in conjunction with their investment announcement.
Smart Topics
[edit]Smart Topics were tools used by publishers to create media-rich pages on specific topics, linking to proprietary content and related media such as videos, images, links and tweets, selected by the publisher.[9]
Smart Sections
[edit]Smart Sections were tools that allowed publishers to compose and launch full content sections on verticals, featuring real-time media from proprietary and outside sources selected by the editor.[4]
Daylife APIs
[edit]Daylife's Developer APIs were a programming platform for media. The API served over 1.5 billion calls per month as of July 2011.[10]
An example of thesemantic web,Daylife analyzed a continuous stream of media content to enable dynamic news navigation by topic, country, journalist, medium, timeline, and geography.[11]
History
[edit]Daylife was founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer Upendra Shardanand. The company released its APIs In 2008.[12]In 2009, Daylife was named one of the "Top 50 Tech Startups" byBusinessWeek[13]and "Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies" by ReadWriteWeb.[14]Daylife was funded by Balderton Capital, Arts Alliance,The New York Times,andGetty Images.Angel investorsincludeMichael Arrington,John Borthwick, Andrew Rasiej, and Dave Winer.Jeff Jarvisis a partner at Daylife. In 2012, Daylife was acquired by NewsCred.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^Peter Kafka,News Aggregator Daylife Ties Up With Getty: $4 Million InvestmentSeptember 16, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ^abContent Licensing Service NewsCred Acquires Publishing Startup Daylife, Appears To Be Raising More FundingTechCrunch.October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^abNews syndication service Newscred buys DaylifeThe Daily Telegraph.October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^abDaylife gives publishers self-updating topic pagesVentureBeatDecember 8, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ^Daylife, the Aggregator That Newspapers LikeThe New York ObserverJuly 28, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
- ^"Buy this domain".2016-02-13. Archived fromthe originalon 2016-02-13.Retrieved2022-08-26.
- ^"Real-Time Media Management Comes to Daylife's Publishing Suite".ReadWrite.2011-06-08.Retrieved2022-08-26.
- ^Robert MacMillan,Getty Images Invests in Daylife, Takes Snapshot of BusinessReuters.September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ^Michael Surtees,A @Daylife Update: SmartSections and SmartTopics Launch: DesignNotesDecember 4, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ^Upendra Shardanand (January 8, 2010)."Daylife Hits the One Billion Call Mark".Archived fromthe originalon May 26, 2010.RetrievedJuly 1,2011.
- ^Jon Fine (June 19, 2008)."Redirecting the Web's News Stream".BusinessWeek.Archived fromthe originalon July 2, 2008.RetrievedJuly 2,2008.
- ^Marc Hedlund (June 23, 2008)."Daylife's API for News".O'Reilly Radar. Archived fromthe originalon January 31, 2009.RetrievedJuly 15,2009.
- ^BusinessWeek: Top 50 Tech StartupsRetrieved July 15, 2009.
- ^Richard MacManus,Top 50 Real-Time Web CompaniesReadWrite.September 27, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.