Daylife

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Daylife
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Type of site
B2B cloud media services
Available in English
Founded2006
Dissolved 2016
OwnerNewsCred
Created byDaylife, Inc
URL http://daylife.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationNot required
LaunchedJan 2006
Current statusDefunct

Daylife was 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, including Getty Images, [1] and was acquired in 2012 by NewsCred. [2] [3] The company was headquartered in downtown New York City.

Contents

Daylife's products included the Daylife Publisher Suite, a range of APIs, 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 included USA Today, Bloomberg Businessweek, NPR, Mashable, Sky News, Forbes, and Thomson Reuters.

The company shut down in 2016. [6]

Publisher Suite

The Daylife Publisher Suite allowed publishers and marketers to deploy media features and apps from the cloud onto any digital channel. [7]

Smart Galleries

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

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

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

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 the semantic web, Daylife analyzed a continuous stream of media content to enable dynamic news navigation by topic, country, journalist, medium, timeline, and geography. [11]

History

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" by BusinessWeek [13] and "Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies" by ReadWriteWeb. [14] Daylife was funded by Balderton Capital, Arts Alliance, The New York Times, and Getty Images. Angel investors include Michael Arrington, John Borthwick, Andrew Rasiej, and Dave Winer. Jeff Jarvis is a partner at Daylife. In 2012, Daylife was acquired by NewsCred. [2] [3]

References

  1. ↑ Peter Kafka, News Aggregator Daylife Ties Up With Getty: $4 Million Investment September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Content Licensing Service NewsCred Acquires Publishing Startup Daylife, Appears To Be Raising More Funding TechCrunch. October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  3. 1 2 News syndication service Newscred buys Daylife The Daily Telegraph . October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  4. 1 2 Daylife gives publishers self-updating topic pages VentureBeat December 8, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
  5. ↑ Daylife, the Aggregator That Newspapers Like The New York Observer July 28, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Buy this domain". 2016-02-13. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  7. ↑ "Real-Time Media Management Comes to Daylife's Publishing Suite". ReadWrite. 2011-06-08. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  8. ↑ Robert MacMillan, Getty Images Invests in Daylife, Takes Snapshot of Business Reuters. September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
  9. ↑ Michael Surtees, A @Daylife Update: SmartSections and SmartTopics Launch : DesignNotes December 4, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
  10. ↑ Upendra Shardanand (January 8, 2010). "Daylife Hits the One Billion Call Mark". Archived from the original on May 26, 2010. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
  11. ↑ Jon Fine (June 19, 2008). "Redirecting the Web's News Stream". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on July 2, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2008.
  12. ↑ Marc Hedlund (June 23, 2008). "Daylife's API for News". O'Reilly Radar. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2009.
  13. ↑ BusinessWeek: Top 50 Tech Startups Retrieved July 15, 2009.
  14. ↑ Richard MacManus, Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies ReadWrite. September 27, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
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