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Live Story targets UK, Ireland and Nordics as demand grows for agile digital experiences
Live Story is expanding into the United Kingdom, Ireland and the
Nordics as demand grows for faster and more flexible digital experiences across Europe.
The Milan-based no-code frontend creative platform is accelerating international growth after doubling annual recurring revenue during the first half of 2026 compared with the end of 2025. The company enables brands to design, manage and publish enterprise-grade digital experiences without relying on lengthy development cycles, helping reduce time-to-market through its‘ design-to-market’ approach. expectations and rapidly evolving market conditions. While traditional monolithic platforms can be too rigid, headless and composable architectures often increase complexity and dependence on developers.
Live Story aims to bridge that gap by giving marketing and digital teams greater control over frontend experiences. Websites, campaigns and digital projects that once required weeks of development can be launched within hours while maintaining brand consistency, performance, SEO standards and governance requirements.
The expansion targets some of Europe’ s most digitally mature markets. The UK, Ireland and Nordic countries are home to globally recognised fashion, lifestyle and consumer brands, alongside advanced technology ecosystems with strong rates of digital adoption. The regions also offer extensive opportunities for partnerships and scalable growth.
To support the move, Live Story has established an international team focused on developing business opportunities, strengthening its regional presence and building local partnerships.
The company believes organisations are under increasing pressure to adapt to AI-driven change, shifting customer
The platform has been used in more than 100 projects worldwide, with customers including Bottega Veneta, Dolce & Gabbana, Max Mara Fashion Group and illycaffè. The company says brands are increasingly adopting modular digital experiences that can respond quickly to changing customer and AIdriven demands.
UK’ s CityFibre hits one million connections nationwide
CityFibre, the UK’ s largest independent full fibre platform, has connected over one million premises to its multi-gig, full fibre network, placing it at the heart of millions of people’ s digital lives while supporting growth and innovation across the UK.
Over the past ten years, CityFibre has built full fibre digital infrastructure that now reaches nearly five million premises, delivering multi-gig speeds, unrivalled capacity and muchneeded competition.
As the UK’ s largest independent wholesale network, CityFibre underpins major household names, including Sky, Vodafone and TalkTalk alongside dozens of challenger brands, with a commitment to best price, product and service that has helped shake up the broadband market.
Alongside its full fibre broadband services, CityFibre is a provider of critical national infrastructure, trusted by mobile operators, enterprises and local authorities to connect almost 16,000 sites including schools, hospitals and GP surgeries across the UK.
Simon Holden, CEO, CityFibre, said:“ We have built a nationwide, full fibre network to be proud of and, today, CityFibre is trusted by millions to power their digital lives. The UK shifted up a gear with the arrival of the altnets and CityFibre continues to challenge the incumbents and deliver the benefits of competition to households, businesses and partners right across the country.”
CityFibre’ s one million milestone was welcomed by UK Telecoms Minister, Liz Lloyd:
“ This milestone shows the difference government’ s proinvestment environment is making, helping bring fast, reliable broadband to homes and businesses in some of the UK’ s hardest-to-reach communities.” www. intelligentcio. com
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