Watson (news portal)

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Watson
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News portal
languages German
operator FixxPunkt AG
On-line 22th January 2014
https://www.watson.ch/

Watson ( spelling : wats on , from the English language What's on? ) Is a Swiss news portal that has been online since January 22, 2014. The publisher is FixxPunkt AG, originally founded by Hansi Voigt (former editor-in-chief of 20 Minuten Online ). Its majority shareholder is AZ Medien AG owned by the Aargau publisher Peter Wanner, who also secured the start-up financing of 20 million francs. A content partnership with Zeit Online and t-online.de has existed since 2019 . It replaced the partnership with Spiegel Online .

The publicist Philipp Löpfe also works for Watson . The project started in 2014 with a workforce of 55 people, 40 of whom followed Voigt von 20 Minuten Online to the new company. According to the original business plan, the breakeven point should have been reached in 2017. In January 2018, the managing director assumed that it would be achieved in 2019.

In April 2016 it became known that the founder and managing editor-in-chief Hansi Voigt is leaving watson.ch and will be replaced as managing director by Michael Wanner, the son of the publisher Peter Wanner. Maurice Thiriet was appointed as the new editor-in-chief on July 1, 2016.

In the first eleven months of 2018, watson.ch reached between 1.5 and 1.8 million unique clients, between 10.3 and 12.4 million visits and between 69 and 85 million page impressions per month.

German offshoot

The German licensed edition of Ströer Media started on March 22, 2018 with Marc Schmitz as Managing Director and Gesa Mayr as Editor-in-Chief. Mayr left the editorial team on November 8, 2018, which was then temporarily headed by Arne Henkes . Kinga Rustler became the new editor-in-chief on April 1, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Stadler: Watson.ch at the start - news for women with tattoos. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 23, 2014, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ «Watson»: New Swiss news portal goes online. In: 20 minutes . January 22, 2014, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  3. ^ Jean-Martin Büttner: The publicist as a pressure cooker. In: Tages-Anzeiger . January 23, 2014, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Christof Moser: Watson: The 20 million franc experiment. In: Switzerland on Sunday . October 26, 2013, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Francesco Benini: Dream of greatness. In: NZZ am Sonntag . December 15, 2013, accessed on May 20, 2015 (fee required).
  6. ^ Watson. Partnership with “Spiegel Online” ended. In: persoenlich.com . January 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ Hansi Voigt : Business journalist Philipp Löpfe changes from “Tages Anzeiger” to Watson. In: Klein Report . October 31, 2013, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Manuel Bühlmann: Starting shot for an ambitious project: Watson news portal is online. In: Aargauer Zeitung . January 22, 2014, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  9. ↑ That's how diverse Internet journalism is. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 13, 2018, p. 11.
  10. ↑ Maurice Thiriet becomes editor-in-chief of «Watson». In: persoenlich.com. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
  11. ↑ NET Metrix Audit. In: NET-Metrix .
  12. ↑ New youth portal Watson: Ströer rolls out the content carpet for the mobile generation. In: Meedia . March 22, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Only seven months after the start: Watson bosses Gesa Mayr and Anne Gerstbauer throw out - Arne Henkes takes over. In: Meedia. November 8, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
  14. ↑ After HuffPo intermezzo: Kinga Rustler editor of Watson is Germany. In: Meedia. March 7, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 .