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 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.