For a change I will be skipping the usual Star Wars Merch - Lego, Figurines and the like. Instead I am focusing on the wealth of forthcoming Disney / Lucasfilm / Disney+ content - where no less than 15 New Franchises have been announced, as well as the continuation of the well-loved Mandalorian Series. It will be interesting to see how that pans out with the essential side-kick Groku displaced from the main narrative.

In any case there are some fantastic new TV series and Films ...

TTGMedia.com is a multiple award-winning Website and Digital Platform running on Affino. During the month of April, TTG’s Paywall has been partly suspended - meaning that much of the site has been opened up so that prospective users can sample the extent of value-added content and services provided.

The site is rich in depth and breadth - with no less than 36 key topic landing pages, Competitions, Events, and of course the invaluable TTG+ Membership resources - including the Live...

PPA’s Leadership Summit is the key annual event for C-Suite Executive Leaders from the Publishing Industry. The two day program covers a wide variety of themes and subject areas, including :

• Building Engagement and Reader Value
• Commercial Patnerships
• Content Creation
• Digital Economy
• Digitising Live Events
• Hybrid Events
• Hybrid Working
• The Impact of Covid-19 on the Future of Work
• Monetising Digital Events
• Podcasts
• Risk Management
• Subscriptions and Memberships

On the first ...

If you missed last Thursday’s Affino annual keynote event, or simply wish to recap or reminisce - then you will find all the resources and original presentations on the Affino Innovation Briefing page - in different formats. You can access the page via the SERVICES drop-down menu in the Affino.com navigation. This will only be visible to logged-in users! Meaning that all who wish to access these resources need to be Registered and logged in.

There are 4 main segments to the page ...

Fairly recent 2019 legislation has bound the UK to achieving Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 - as applied specifically on this occasion to the nature of domestic housing and buildings.

This makes for increased reliance on green energy sources - and in particular the use of solar panels and evolving carbon capture technologies. Projected costs for adapting the typical building for Carbon Neutral Emissions, range from circa £2,500 to an eye-watering £50,000 per home.

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Affino’s Innovation Briefings have been a regular annual occurrences over the last several years - where we take customers and prospects through the Affino Platform development and service highlights for the past year. Covid alas kind of disrupted the schedule for 2020, and so we we find ourselves doing our annual review at the end of March this year instead - a sort of Spring refresher.

For the last few years we’ve taken over a wing of the One Alfred Place building just ...

Everyone involved in event productions knows just how much organisation is needed for Live Events. Every such event has various phases which require a suite of events solutions and a means to target and inform the audience.

In this instance the essential coordinating resource at the centre of activities is the Affino Unified Business Platform which delivers the Events Hub and Webinar Sessions Framework.

You need charismatic Presenters, Moderators and Hosts - with relatively ...

We feel that it’s important for site owners to be fully prepared for the imminent end of Third Party Cookies - which are due to be phased out before the start of 2022 - or by the end of this year! This means turning over to First Party Data methods - that is to say fully Native Data Gathering and Analysis in place of all those soon to be expiring Third Party Plugins.

GDPR is Having a Massive Impact

We have noted how site owners are already feeling the impact of the more ...

At the start of the Covid period, we determined that we would need something of a lighter touch to contrast that societal darkness. And so we set out to wholly revamp the Affino.com website - to make it clearer, more streamlined, fresher, and more friendly - while rolling out various new technologies and functionalities. We greatly expanded the colour palette and introduced a number of more vibrant tones to meet that purpose.

I and Designer Mark Foster, with help from Lead Front-End ...

2020 was both a tumultuous and momentous year for TTG as they finely honed and shored up their Travel Industry Leadership credentials with a number of major projects and initiatives. They were the first in that industry to rally the sector together via dedicated Coronavirus Hub Page and facilities. They also led the #savetravel initiative which triggered and influenced government debate. Moreover TTG introduced their new Digital Print Archive as part of their newly launched Subscription ...