The 10 Most Innovative CDN Disruptors to Watch in 2022 May2022

The 10 Most Innovative CDN Disruptors to Watch, 2022.
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YUDU
Reforming Digital
Publishing and
Crisis Management
The Media and Entertainment
Industry has displayed evident
growth globally, since its
commencement. The advent of
innovative technologies and their
pioneers in this industry and
subsequent disciplines has catapulted
its development. YUDU is one such
innovative pioneer of the digital
publishing industry.
Founded in 2007, YUDU is an
applications technology company
specializing in digital publishing and
crisis communications. It upholds a
vision of harnessing cloud-based
technology to meet growing market
needs. It was one of the first companies
to help publishers produce digital
versions of their magazines and other
publications. The organization holds
simplicity and ease of access at the
heart of its vision, both for its clients
and customers, and produces solutions
that have been widely liked by users.
Exemplary Leadership
YUDU’s Founder and CEO, Richard
Stephenson, has been at the helm
since the company’s inception in 2007.
He holds a joint honors B.Sc. in
Economics and Materials Science from
Swansea University. He has driven the
growth of the company as it has grown
in its international clientele, adapted to
changes in the publishing industry, and
most recently, led the development of
the company’s Crisis Management app
named Sentinel.
The online shift towards e-reading, e-
commerce and apps has opened up new
opportunities for YUDU, which
Richard has been at the forefront of
capitalizing on and helping clients
adapt to changing consumer wants and
needs. Over the past 10 years, Richard
has overseen the growth of the
company to become a global leader in
cloud based document distribution and
corporate communications.
Richard has been running technology
led international businesses for the past
30 years and completed his first private
equity backed MBO in 2001. Richard
past roles include being an Operating
Partner with Duke Street Capital,
Chairman of Xafinity Holdings Ltd,
President of the Supervisory Board of
Navimo S.A. and Chairman of Deloro
Stellite Ltd.
Redefining Innovation
Although YUDU has developed over
1,000 apps over its ten years in tech,
communication is at the heart of the
company’s functionality. The
organization’s core product is its digital
publishing platform, Publisher. It
allows anyone to turn a PDF into an
intuitive, re-flowable, IOS, Android
and Windows compatible digital
version.
Clients ranging from retailers like
Screwfix to publications like National
Geographic use Publisher to create
high quality magazines, catalogues,
newsletters and more, all with full
statistical analysis built-in and optional
subscription control.
YUDU’s most recently developed
software Sentinel, combines mass
alerting via SMS, email and in-app
messaging, offline critical document
handling and an HR database of
contacts. All of this is hosted on a
secure cloud server, so that if a cyberattack,
power outage or an act of terror
takes down servers and phone lines,
incident managers can check that
everyone is safe and instruct staff on
what to do. Sentinel is used as a
business continuity and
communications tool by a range of
industries including law firms, hotels,
and theatres.
Among publishers, the digital
transformation has been embraced by
some and feared by others. E-book
readers like Kindle were hailed
simultaneously as the end of the book
industry and as a passing fad by its
detractors, and more mobile forms of
entertainment have broadened the
options for magazines distribution and
consumption.
With Publisher, the organization was
able to take publications into the digital
arena. It could also enhance print
magazines with video and interactivity,
helping media companies and
educational publishers reach a
massively wider audience with their
most innovative content.
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