Summer is upon us, and we have a great new Affino update, full of feature updates requested by the Affino community. The release is focused on a myriad of little things that add up to something much bigger in terms of making everything just that bit more productive, useful, and easier to use every day for your teams and your audiences.

Highlights include more productive Ad management and support for Ads.txt; a more productive AI training and support service; the ability to embargo breaking ...

This release sees improvements in many aspects across Affino that will benefit everyone, enhancing the speed and usability across many Affino services. 

Affino’s AI services are now significantly faster, better and nicer looking, and for the first time Affino’s Expert AI Service is aware of the full conversation you are having.

We have made some important updates to the message click stats, mailing list subscriber import, and subscriptions, amongst others. In general working with ...

This update sees the introduction of Affino’s AI Services, the core of which is the ability to turn your content into interactive chat AI’s. It is possible to set up AI prototypes within minutes and then train up and deploy full scale expert, support or indeed entertainment AI’s in short order trained from your articles and forum threads. Simply set up each AI using the AI Profiles and make each one live on their own dedicated AI Channel. You can then launch a whole suite of AI’s which can work...

As we have done for a few years now, we ran a roundtable at this year’s PPA Independent Publisher Conference. As usual it was very well attended and quite buzzy. We thought the AI session was excellent and informative and really appreciated the 90 second pitch we had the opportunity to deliver prior to the AI session.

The round table itself was repeated twice -  with some great publishers represented by a very good set of media pros. It was great to meet with you all, and I look forward to ...

Affino 9 introduces the next generation of the Affino SaaS Service. This year has seen the biggest technical shift in Affino for over a decade, and after thirty five updates to Affino 8 we are introducing the first version of Affino 9. It is a radical shift to a new generation of open source technologies with a firm AI and Open Source foundation.

2023 has been an exciting year and feels like the coming of age for AI as a Service (AaaS) and together with the rapid maturity of AI foundational...

This year has seen the biggest technical shift in Affino for over a decade, and after thirty five updates to Affino 8 we will be launching Affino 9 this autumn / fall.

Affino 9 might look the same but it will be running on a transformed infrastructure which will significantly accelerate future evolution.

We have seen four major tech paradigm shifts over the course of Affino’s evolution:

1. Cloud Computing and SaaS
2. The Open Source Age
3. The Mobile Revolution
4. AI and Layers

It is ...

Affino has a long history of bringing new life and value to content produced by media groups, whether it be The Stage’s outstanding theatre reviews, the decades of breaking travel news from TTG Media, or the deep insight provided by Drewry to the word’s leading shippers. 

Affino’s publishing and media business SaaS platform provides a unified means for media companies to publish, store, distribute - via web, print, messaging, apps, feeds and APIs, and now via custom AI user interfaces.

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The first step of the audience engagement funnel is often the most important one. When it comes to websites that often comes down to SEO, and how well your site works with the marketing and bot ecosystem, and increasingly how it works with AI’s.

This update focuses a great deal on improving how Affino and your digital presence works with the global bot ecosystem. Affino pages are now served more intelligently to bots, with improved meta data and sitemaps, and they can inform bots which ...

We have been tracking the evolution of AI platforms and services for some time to identify when would be the best point to roll them out to the Affino community.

Professional Grade AI Services have Arrived

The introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3, the rapid improvements of Midjourney and many other AI tech providers, along with the accelerating evolution of large language models, vector storage, and AI toolkits such as Langchain, made it clear that AI services have now reached a level ...