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Amplience pledges to rid the world of bad shopping experiences through AI content strategy

Amplience , an AI content company , has announced that with the appointment of experienced leader and technologist , Anthony Lye as its new Chief Executive Officer , the company has significantly evolved its strategy by introducing a vision focused on the relationship between content creation , content management and shopping context .

Amplience will empower business practitioners in the industry with access to a shopping-specific , generative content engine and a rich portfolio of AI-based capabilities . This will allow them to create , review , manage , deploy and measure tailored content for every use case , or context , that will revolutionise shopping experiences .
Anthony Lye will evangelise and guide the Amplience vision . He said : “ Customers tell us they need agile solutions that embrace AI and allow each brand to dynamically
Anthony Lye , Chief Executive Officer , Amplience generate persuasive content and media across various channels to create seamless customer experiences . Ensuring all touchpoints provide the rich and engaging shopping experiences that delights customers and delivers performance is what we will provide .”
Amplience ’ s Generative Content Platform will accelerate and augment how brands and retailers create , validate and publish content and media for world-class shopping experiences . The sheer volume of content and content variants needed to reflect every shopping context such as product and category information , brand standards , seasonality , weather , audience , events , news , local and regional regulations , is vast and will only grow .
It is only through generative AI capabilities , built on specialised language learning models ( LLMs ) that are trained on shopping , category and brand-specific data and performance insights , will businesses be able to reduce the time , cost and effort needed for otherwise complex and lengthy production tasks , allowing content teams to achieve more . With over 70 million shopping-related content items and half a billion shopping-related images being managed today for over 400 customers , Amplience is uniquely positioned to provide a modular generative content platform for model management , content and variant generation and compliance services that will help brands and retailers stay competitive and delight customers .
Anthony Lye heads up executive team
As new CEO , Lye brings a wealth of experience . He comes to Amplience from Palantir Technologies where , as Global Head , he has been responsible for expanding the Apollo service and the company ’ s product-led Growth Business Unit and its AI strategy . Prior to that , he was Executive Vice President and General Manager at NetApp , the data storage and management company where he built the Public Cloud Business Unit . During his tenure at NetApp , he acquired 12 companies and built a world class team . Other roles have included Board Member at Spoken Communications , EVP and Chief Cloud Officer at Guidewire Software , and he is also an Operating Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners and is on the board of trustees for the University of Bath in England .
This is the second significant hire this year for Amplience , which welcomed Imran Anwar as CFO in May . This reflects not only the strategic changes at the company , but also its on-going growth in Europe and the United States . x www . intelligentcxo . com
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