Daylife offered cloud publishing 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 and has raised $15 million investment to date, most recently from strategic investor

Getty Images Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is an American visual media company and is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three markets—creativ ...

. The company is headquartered in downtown

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. Daylife's products include the Daylife Publisher Suite, a range of APIs, and a set of "hosted solutions" including Smart Topics, Smart Galleries, and Smart Sections.Daylife gives publishers self-updating topic pages

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December 8, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010. The hosted solutions were all launched in partnership with Getty Images, and they allow publishers to source, manage and compose sites, media components, pages, and complete sections of content. Daylife's technology analyzes over 100,000 curated content feeds and allows publishers to curate and automate media to enhance proprietary content. Clients include

USA Today ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgini ...

Bloomberg Businessweek ''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City ...

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Sky News Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the he ...

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Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corp ...

, and over 80 others. The company seems to have shut down after 2016.

Publisher Suite

The Daylife Publisher Suite allows publishers and marketers to deploy on-demand media features and apps from the cloud onto any digital channel with a few clicks. All the features and apps are managed from a simple browser-based dashboard.

Smart Galleries

SmartGalleries is a suite of tools that allow publishers to create image galleries as customizable widgets or in full-page formats. Publishers can hand-select images or automatically fill galleries based on keywords. Daylife and Getty Images launched SmartGalleries in September 2009 in conjunction with their investment announcement.

Smart Topics

SmartTopics are tools for 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.

Smart Sections

SmartSections are tools that allow publishers to compose and launch full content sections on verticals like

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, featuring real-time media from proprietary and outside sources selected by the editor.

Daylife APIs

Daylife's Developer APIs are a programming platform for media. They are highly flexible and scalable, serving over 1.5 billion calls per month as of July 2011. These APIs let developers source, combine, and synthesize news and media content into applications. The APIs ingest, parse, and analyze media content, exposing hundreds of ways to query it and then deliver it at scale. Both free and paid access is available. An example of the semantic web, Daylife analyzes a continuous stream of media content, maps, connections between news topics, and enables dynamic news navigation by topic, country, journalist, medium, timeline, and geography.

History

Daylife was founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer Upendra Shardanand. The company released its APIs in 2008. In 2009, Daylife was named one of the "Top 50 Tech Startups" by

BusinessWeek ''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City ...

and "Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies" by

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. Daylife is funded by Balderton Capital, Arts Alliance,

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, and

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include

Michael Arrington J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970) is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in America and elsewhere. Magazines such as ...

, John Borthwick, Andrew Rasiej, and Dave Winer.

Jeff Jarvis Jeff Jarvis (born July 15, 1954) is an American journalist, associate professor, public speaker and former television critic. He advocates the Open Web and argues that there are many social and personal benefits to living a more public life on ...

is a partner at Daylife. In 2012, Daylife was acquired by NewsCred.News syndication service Newscred buys Daylife
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The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was f ...

''. October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.

References

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