| Daylife | |
| Url: | http://daylife.com |
| Commercial: | Yes |
| Type: | B2B cloud media services |
| Language: | English |
| Founded: | 2006 |
| Dissolved: | 2016 |
| Registration: | Not required |
| Owner: | NewsCred |
| Author: | Daylife, Inc |
| Launch Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Current Status: | Defunct |
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. The company was headquartered in downtown New York City.
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.[2] 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.[3]
Clients included USA Today, Bloomberg Businessweek, NPR, Mashable, Sky News, Forbes, and Thomson Reuters.
The company shut down in 2016.[4]
The Daylife Publisher Suite allowed publishers and marketers to deploy media features and apps from the cloud onto any digital channel.[5]
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[6] in conjunction with their investment announcement.
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.[7]
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.[2]
Daylife's Developer APIs were a programming platform for media. The API served over 1.5 billion calls per month as of July 2011.[8]
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.[9]
Daylife was founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer Upendra Shardanand. The company released its APIs In 2008.[10] In 2009, Daylife was named one of the "Top 50 Tech Startups" by BusinessWeek[11] and "Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies" by ReadWriteWeb.[12] 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.[13] [14]