AccuWeather Wins Three W3 Mobile Awards for Apps and Mobile Website
AccuWeather MinuteCast is the key differentiator in award-winning user experience
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), for the second year in a row, recognizes AccuWeather with three digital awards -- one Gold award for its iPhone app and two Silver awards for its Android app and its mobile weather website. The W3 Awards are the latest in numerous accolades that recognize AccuWeather's commitment and success in providing intuitive and stylish weather content that is easy to use, easy to understand, and helps people make decisions throughout the day.
"We continually strive to combine engaging user experiences with the best global weather data available anywhere. Being recognized by AIVA is a great affirmation that we're succeeding," said Steven Smith, AccuWeather Chief Digital Officer. "Easy-to-use, localized forecasts with Superior Accuracy™ delivered on popular devices all over the world set AccuWeather apart as the clear leader in weather information that helps people's lives."
AccuWeather's mobile weather solutions include unique and innovative features, such as AccuWeather MinuteCast®, the only minute-by-minute precipitation forecast for a person's exact street address or GPS location. AccuWeather MinuteCast includes precipitation type and intensity, as well as start and end times for precipitation, and the technology is patent protected throughout the world.
"This is another recognition of the global leadership shown by AccuWeather in creating the best products for peoples' lives and working cooperatively with the world's leading partners and governments to achieve the remarkable result," said Barry Lee Myers, AccuWeather's Chief Executive Officer.
Additional popular features include hourly and extended forecasts, weather radar and satellite for tracking the latest storms, and RealFeel Temperature®, AccuWeather's patented technology that analyzes multiple weather factors to determine how the local temperature actually feels. Users of the AccuWeather mobile website also have access to the groundbreaking, 45-day extended forecast, and users of AccuWeather Android and iPhone apps have the option of receiving automatic, pushed severe weather alerts.
The ninth Annual W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. Receiving more than 4,000 entries, the 2014 W3 Awards honor creative excellence, and recognize the creative professionals behind the award winning solutions.
The AccuWeather mobile website is accessible from any mobile device with a web browser, m.accuweather.com.
The AccuWeather app for Android phone and tablet users is available as a free download from www.GooglePlay.com. The AccuWeather app for iPhone users is available as a free download from www.AppStore.com.
About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com
Every day over a billion people worldwide rely on AccuWeather to help them plan their lives, protect their businesses, and get more from their day. AccuWeather provides hourly and Minute by Minute™ forecasts with Superior Accuracy™ for any longitude/latitude on earth, with customized content and engaging video presentations available on smart phones, tablets, free wired and mobile Internet sites, connected TVs, and Internet appliances, as well as via radio, television, and newspapers. Founded in 1962 by Dr. Joel N. Myers – a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society who was recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur Magazine's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs – AccuWeather also delivers a wide range of highly-customized enterprise solutions to media, business, government, and institutions, as well as news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. AccuWeather's CEO, Barry Lee Myers, is an award winning leader in global weather information issues and one of the world's most recognized advocates for cooperative relationships between government weather agencies and the weather industry.
Visit accuweather.com for additional information.
For more information contact:
Justin Roberti / 814.235.8756 / [email protected]
AccuWeather, Inc. / 385 Science Park Road / State College, PA 16803
Sara Ball / 415.318.4367 / [email protected]
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