AccuWeather Wins W3 Best in Show and Gold Digital Awards, Recognized for Mobile App Excellence
Updated Jan 4, 2018 2:27 PM EST
For the fourth time, digital awards go to AccuWeather for providing a superior weather app experience to users worldwide.
AccuWeather Global Weather Center – January 4, 2018 – AccuWeather, the largest and fastest-growing source of weather forecasts and warnings as well as a global leader of digital media and weather-related big data, today announced that the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) has recognized AccuWeather with 2017 W3 digital awards – a Best in Show award for the AccuWeather iOS app and a Gold award for the AccuWeather Android app. This is the fourth time AccuWeather’s apps have been recognized with W3 awards for providing a superior app experience.
The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by the AIVA, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. The awards, which attracted more than 5,000 entries this year, honor creative excellence and recognize the creative professionals behind the winning solutions.
“AccuWeather is honored to be recognized once again by the AIVA for the appealing, intuitive design and unique benefits of our award-winning apps available across mobile devices,” said Steven Smith, President of Digital Media at AccuWeather. "We strive to provide weather app experience users with the features and utility they want and the Superior Accuracy™ they trust. These awards serve as additional validation that AccuWeather is building on our foundation of creativity and innovation to offer the best weather app experience available.”
“The creativity and quality of this season’s entries raised the bar once again,” said Derek Howard, the director of the AIVA. “As our connected world continues to expand in new and exciting ways, our winners are a true testament to the power of Web creativity across the world.”
AccuWeather’s W3 Awards come on the heels of a study by independent industry tracker ForecastWatch, which demonstrated the Superior Accuracy of the company’s forecasts. This analysis of over 30 million forecasts – the most comprehensive study of forecast accuracy ever undertaken globally – concluded that AccuWeather had the highest level of accuracy in all three categories ForecastWatch verified, temperature, precipitation and wind.
The award-winning AccuWeather apps for iOS and Android provide the most accurate, actionable weather forecasts and warnings in an innovative, advanced mobile experience personalized to each user worldwide. Exclusive industry-leading features include the patented AccuWeather MinuteCast®, the leading minute-by-minute precipitation forecast hyper-localized to a user's exact street address or GPS location. The app also includes AccUcast™, the only crowdsourced weather feature that provides current weather conditions and hazards submitted by users in a real-time global animation map display, plus AccuWeather Real Feel®, Future Radar, and much more.
The AccuWeather app for Android phone and tablet users is free on the Google Play store. The AccuWeather iOS app is free on www.AppStore.com.
About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com
Nearly 2 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™ with customized content and engaging video presentations available on smartphones, tablets, free wired and mobile Internet sites, connected TVs, and Internet appliances, as well as via radio, television, and newspapers. Established in 1962 by Founder, President, and Chairman 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.
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AccuWeather Wins W3 Best in Show and Gold Digital Awards, Recognized for Mobile App Excellence
Updated Jan 4, 2018 2:27 PM EST
For the fourth time, digital awards go to AccuWeather for providing a superior weather app experience to users worldwide.
AccuWeather Global Weather Center – January 4, 2018 – AccuWeather, the largest and fastest-growing source of weather forecasts and warnings as well as a global leader of digital media and weather-related big data, today announced that the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) has recognized AccuWeather with 2017 W3 digital awards – a Best in Show award for the AccuWeather iOS app and a Gold award for the AccuWeather Android app. This is the fourth time AccuWeather’s apps have been recognized with W3 awards for providing a superior app experience.
The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by the AIVA, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. The awards, which attracted more than 5,000 entries this year, honor creative excellence and recognize the creative professionals behind the winning solutions.
“AccuWeather is honored to be recognized once again by the AIVA for the appealing, intuitive design and unique benefits of our award-winning apps available across mobile devices,” said Steven Smith, President of Digital Media at AccuWeather. "We strive to provide weather app experience users with the features and utility they want and the Superior Accuracy™ they trust. These awards serve as additional validation that AccuWeather is building on our foundation of creativity and innovation to offer the best weather app experience available.”
“The creativity and quality of this season’s entries raised the bar once again,” said Derek Howard, the director of the AIVA. “As our connected world continues to expand in new and exciting ways, our winners are a true testament to the power of Web creativity across the world.”
AccuWeather’s W3 Awards come on the heels of a study by independent industry tracker ForecastWatch, which demonstrated the Superior Accuracy of the company’s forecasts. This analysis of over 30 million forecasts – the most comprehensive study of forecast accuracy ever undertaken globally – concluded that AccuWeather had the highest level of accuracy in all three categories ForecastWatch verified, temperature, precipitation and wind.
The award-winning AccuWeather apps for iOS and Android provide the most accurate, actionable weather forecasts and warnings in an innovative, advanced mobile experience personalized to each user worldwide. Exclusive industry-leading features include the patented AccuWeather MinuteCast®, the leading minute-by-minute precipitation forecast hyper-localized to a user's exact street address or GPS location. The app also includes AccUcast™, the only crowdsourced weather feature that provides current weather conditions and hazards submitted by users in a real-time global animation map display, plus AccuWeather Real Feel®, Future Radar, and much more.
The AccuWeather app for Android phone and tablet users is free on the Google Play store. The AccuWeather iOS app is free on www.AppStore.com.
About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com
Nearly 2 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™ with customized content and engaging video presentations available on smartphones, tablets, free wired and mobile Internet sites, connected TVs, and Internet appliances, as well as via radio, television, and newspapers. Established in 1962 by Founder, President, and Chairman 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.
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