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.
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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.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | Jan 2006 |
| Current status | Defunct |
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
editThe Daylife Publisher Suite allowed publishers and marketers to deploy media features and apps from the cloud onto any digital channel.[7]
Smart Galleries
editSmart 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
editSmart 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
editSmart 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
editDaylife'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
editDaylife 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
edit- ^ Peter Kafka, News Aggregator Daylife Ties Up With Getty: $4 Million Investment September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ^ a b Content Licensing Service NewsCred Acquires Publishing Startup Daylife, Appears To Be Raising More Funding TechCrunch. October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^ a b News syndication service Newscred buys Daylife The Daily Telegraph. October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^ a b Daylife gives publishers self-updating topic pages VentureBeat December 8, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ^ Daylife, the Aggregator That Newspapers Like The New York Observer July 28, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
- ^ "Buy this domain". 2016-02-13. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
- ^ "Real-Time Media Management Comes to Daylife's Publishing Suite". ReadWrite. 2011-06-08. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
- ^ Robert MacMillan, Getty Images Invests in Daylife, Takes Snapshot of Business Reuters. September 16, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ^ Michael Surtees, A @Daylife Update: SmartSections and SmartTopics Launch : DesignNotes December 4, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ^ Upendra Shardanand (January 8, 2010). "Daylife Hits the One Billion Call Mark". Archived from the original on May 26, 2010. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- ^ Jon Fine (June 19, 2008). "Redirecting the Web's News Stream". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on July 2, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2008.
- ^ 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.
- ^ BusinessWeek: Top 50 Tech Startups Retrieved July 15, 2009.
- ^ Richard MacManus, Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies ReadWrite. September 27, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010.