Category Archives: Contextly News
A profile of Contextly’s “powerful content recommendation system”
I recently had the chance to speak with Christine Preusler at Hosting Advice, who then wrote up a detailed and insightful profile of Contextly’s recommendation service and how our model of quality links back to publishers’ own content resonates with … Continue reading
Contextly Passes the 100,000 Email Mark with B2B Travel Disrupter Skift
In 2014, Rafat Ali’s Skift was in big trouble. The B2B travel industry upstart was three months away from burning through all their cash and they were unable to raise more capital. Oh, how things have changed. Today Skift is … Continue reading
Breaking Down Content Silos by Integrating Videos and Products into Recommendations
Today’s publications do more than just publish text stories. For instance, a huge number of publications also produce videos, and a growing number are combining content with commerce. Too often, these content types exist in separate silos inside a publication. … Continue reading
Contextly Launches Wicked Smart Content Recommendation Service for Publishers
The most powerful tool for publications looking to build a loyal, high-value audiences just got even more powerful. And a lot more public. On Wednesday, Contextly’s current and new publishers will be powered by our next-generation content recommendation … Continue reading
Fully Auto, Responsive, and Custom: Contextly’s Big Summer 2013 Release
Contextly released a major upgrade to its Wordpress plugin, including automatic related posts, responsive designs, custom rows and more. Continue reading
Contextly Joins SXSW Interactive Accelerator Competition & Brawl
The first rule about tech journalism startup fight club is that you must blog about it, so here it goes. Contextly has been accepted into a fight to death with seven other news-centric startups as part of the SXSW Interactive … Continue reading
11 Lessons Learned Launching Contextly on My Final Day at Wired
Friday was my last day of work at Wired as a full-time writer and the editor of Threat Level. It was also the public launch of my editorial tools startup Contextly. It turns out doing both *on the same day* … Continue reading