Akin helps publishers bring reader engagement back onto their own sites with in-article annotation, highlighting, and contextual discussion tools built for today's media.
As publishers, you've invested in great journalism. But the most meaningful discussions now happen off-platform — scattered across social media, threads, and private channels you can't see or control.
Every time a reader highlights a passage and shares it on Twitter, that engagement leaves your ecosystem. Every comment on Facebook about an article is a conversation you don't own.
Readers highlight and comment on specific passages without leaving the page. Context stays with the content — not lost in a social feed.
Conversations unfold naturally around the content that sparked them. Not in a disconnected comment box at the bottom of the page.
A lightweight sidebar surfaces all reader activity — highlights, comments, and threads — so both readers and editors see the full picture.
Brand-safe moderation, editorial oversight, and full data ownership. Your readers, your rules, your data.
See which paragraphs readers care about most. Turn reader attention into actionable editorial insight.
AI-assisted moderation, keyword filters, and community management dashboards for editorial teams.
Premium comment threads, subscriber-only annotations, and engagement-gated content for publishers.
Social referral traffic is declining. Third-party cookies are dying. Publishers who own their reader engagement own their future. The ones who don't are renting attention from platforms that can change the rules overnight.
Digital-first publications that value reader engagement and want to own the conversation around their journalism.
Magazines, journals, and essay platforms where readers engage deeply with content and want to discuss specific passages.
Educational content, documentation platforms, and research publishers looking to add collaborative annotation.
Akin is building the infrastructure for the next era of publisher engagement. Privacy-first. Lightweight. Built for the publishers who refuse to outsource their readers' attention.