AccuWeather
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| legal form | Inc. |
| founding | 1962 |
| Seat | State College , Pennsylvania |
| management | Joel Myers (CEO) Evan Myers (COO) |
| Number of employees | 500 (2019) |
| sales | over US $ 100 million (2018, estimated) |
| Branch | Weather service |
| Website | accuWeather.com |
AccuWeather is an American company providing commercial weather forecast services worldwide. The company is one of the global market leaders in the field of digital media and weather-related big data applications.
Accu Weather's applications received more than 300 million unique monthly visitors from around the world in 2018, with 35 billion data requests per day.
AccuWeather is headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania and a Severe Weather Center in Wichita, Kansas, but also has offices in 7 World Trade Centers in New York City, Beijing, Dublin, Montreal, Mumbai, Oklahoma City, Seoul and Tokyo.
history
It was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers , a Pennsylvania State University student who was working on a degree in meteorology at the time. His first client was a Pennsylvania gas company that paid him $ 150 for a three-month forecast of winter weather. While running his company, Myers became a member of his university's meteorological faculty. The company adopted the name AccuWeather in 1971. In 2006, AccuWeather acquired WeatherData , Inc. of Wichita, Kansas .
The city of Los Angeles sued the app "Weather Channel" in 2019 because it passed on customer and location data to third-party providers without consent. It became known that AccuWeather also stores position data even if the user had deactivated the location function in their settings. AccuWeather also sells the position data.
Products
AccuWeather claims to make its data available to over 180,000 third-party websites . The application programming interface of AccuWeather covers a wide range of parameters: from current weather to various forecasts and air quality.
AccuWeather operates a weather app. It is already preinstalled on the devices of some manufacturers.
AccuWeather Network
AccuWeather has operated its own cable and satellite channel with the AccuWeather Network since 2015. The station broadcasts live and pre-produced weather forecasts for parts of the USA around the clock. Studios and broadcasting are located at the company's headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Susan Adams: The Real Cloud Wars: The $ 6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting. In: Forbes . Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
- ↑ European Managing Director of AccuWeather will take part in a panel discussion on the subject of customer dialogue at the Mobile World Congress 2018. February 27, 2018, accessed February 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Deals & Dealmakers: It's raining deals at 7 World Trade Center , REW, July 11, 2019
- ^ AccuWeather strengthens its Wichita office , kansas.com, Nov. 12, 2009
- ↑ Pauline Sickmann: These weather apps provide the most accurate forecasts . In: THE WORLD . May 3, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed February 15, 2020]).
- ↑ City sues weather app for selling data to third parties. In: futurezone.at. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Weather API in comparison: Top 5 list, features, special APIs. Accessed February 15, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Rainer Müller: Apps: Weather app: Accuweather in the test , connect.de , June 24, 2019, accessed on February 15, 2020
- ^ Beatrice Verhoeven: AccuWeather Launches Its First National Weather Channel . In: The Hollywood Reporter . March 13, 2015. Accessed February 15, 2020.
- ↑ Mark Pyne: State College-based AccuWeather to launch 24/7 cable network to compete with The Weather Channel . In: The Patriot-News , Advance Publications, January 15, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2020.