So much is happening with AI that is groundbreaking these days that I feel it is a good time to share our current thinking. With our upcoming Affino Innovation Briefing, our thoughts are very much on the coming year and how Affino’s evolution is shaping up, and AI is a big part of that.
For the past couple of years there has been quite a lot of pushback within the Affino community against the time and effort we have spent on core AI R&D, and launching Affino’s Expert AI services. That is ...
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 ...
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:
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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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.
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 ...
The Affino 8.0.27 release is full of breakthroughs which transform Affino’s delivery. For many brands this will be the most significant release to-date as a host of Affino’s modules now offer industry leading automation capabilities and much deeper audience insight.
The biggest breakthrough is the official launch of the Affino Message Template Builder (MTB). The power, ease of use, insight, and message delivery are everything we looked to achieve. It is now possible to fully build message ...
This release sees over one hundred and eighty updates, with a host of critical improvements across the Affino service. The most significant updates are the Live Events, the public Accounts (Companies / Brands) and related areas.
The Live Events updates centre around creating great experiences for live event users, highlighting live seminar video and chat streams, showcasing the sponsors in the most effective manner, and maximising the post-event experience through media highlights and ...
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