idio Ltd. is an

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company that produces and implements products for brands and publishers. To do so, idio uses its cloud-hosted platform, which incorporates modules for large-scale content aggregation and structuring, content analytics (most fundamentally, semantic extraction), multi-channel marketing automation, and customer insight generation. idio has offices in

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and

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in the UK. In early 2011, idio acquired thrudigital to expand its engineering team and set up a London office.

History

idio was founded in 2006, by Edward Barrow and Andrew Davies, at

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in the UK, with the aim of building a system to personalize content effectively. After several months, idiomag was launched. This consumer-facing personalized music magazine was a proving ground for the technical and commercial approach of idio. Based on this, idio refocused on a business-to-business proposition, and started licensing the technology to brands and publishers; to aggregate social media content, deliver personalized multi-channel content services, and to monitor user interactions. idio has since refined this proposition and delivers a range of content and

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solutions.

Offerings

Platform

idio has a growing range of modules built on its platform, including the following: * Content Aggregation (from multiple sources and formats) * Content Analytics (including semantic extraction,

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and

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) * Meta-analysis (building an organic taxonomy of the content, and providing analytics on trends) * Multi-channel Delivery (including web, mobile, email, social media, performance advertising, and

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) * Customer Insight (preference and behavioural

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, and CRM data augmentation) These modules deliver a range of solutions, including the following: * Editorial Dashboard (providing a customized market-view of real-time analysed content to editors) * Content Marketing (aggregating multiple content archives to deliver the right content to the right customer at the right time, on the right channel) * Content Insight (analyzing large unstructured content archives to provide structure and rich annotations) * Customer Insight (analyzing on-site and social media interactions and preferences to augment CRM)

Chrome extensions

In early 2010, idio launched a range of

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Extensions on

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's new Chrome Extension Marketplace. This enables users to install Chrome Extensions from many publishers, and get customized alerts when relevant news is posted.

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launched one in January 2010, and it now used by 20,815 people.

References

External links

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