Weather intelligence for the future: Crafting a strategic enterprise approach to changing environmental conditions
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Personalized, predictive, and privacy-forward marketing strategies that drive brand engagement and growth.
Enter Weather: The Original Influencer
Consciously or subconsciously, weather influences every aspect and decision of people’s lives–how we feel, what we try, and what we buy. As consumer sentiment shifts and brands are called to deliver tangible value rather than relying on loyalty to retain market share, those who tap into weather’s immense impact on consumer behavior, purchasing, and emotion will prevail with weather based marketing.
Weather’s impact on consumers
Nothing else impacts every person and business on the planet as consistently as weather. Over 360 million people a month across 178 countries rely on The Weather Channel app and weather.com to stay safe and informed.1
of women change their personal care or beauty routines as the weather changes2
in estimated ecommerce sales in the US in 2023 were influenced by weather–more than Cyber Monday3
of people adjust their health and wellness routines with the weather4
Revolutionizing the advertising industry
Privacy-forward signal
Weather data is the privacy-forward, contextual, scaled signal that creates a unique alternative to third-party cookies and identifiers. Proven to drive consumer behavior and engagement, weather advertising allows marketers to create and sustain personalized connections–all while prioritizing the consumer experience and protecting their privacy.
The Weather Channel and beyond
Whether you’re tapping into the rich environments or engaged audiences on The Weather Channel’s digital media properties or scaling your message across the advertising ecosystem, The Weather Company lets you be as impactful and pervasive as the weather itself. So go ahead…uncover new audience insights, tailor customer experiences, and exceed media objectives. We’ll be there to support every KPI.
Weather powered advertising solutions
Weather Targeting
Weather Targeting enables marketers to build a weather strategy that personalizes messages without using traditional identifiers–telling their stories at the most relevant moment, in near-real time, across zip codes experiencing the optimal mix of conditions that influence consumer behaviors.
Audience Targeting
Adventure seekers. Pet lovers. World travelers. New parents. Weather plays a large part in every person’s life regardless of their interests. With a user base of 360M+, we sit on a trove of first-party data that segments our audience so marketers can connect with the people that matter most. Our privacy-forward and performant targeting solutions combine weather, AI technology, and consumer insights to deeply understand consumers as we enter this next era of predictive marketing.
Premium Ad Formats
Bring a brand ethos to life and convert attention to action through powerful storytelling capabilities on The Weather Channel digital media properties and across the advertising ecosystem. By combining the influential power of weather with high-impact creative, our premium ad portfolio is proven to drive awareness and purchase consideration with hundreds of millions of people everywhere, and anywhere your audience is.
Sponsorships
Sponsorships across The Weather Channel app and weather.com boost full funnel brand metrics alongside personalized and action-oriented tools for all our users. We put weather into action to give your audience information and insights that help them ultimately live healthier, happier, safer, and smarter with the aid of our advertising accelerator.
Conversations
Unlock the power of 1:1 brand-to-customer, digital interactions with personalized, AI-powered conversational marketing, virtually anywhere and at scale. Our award-winning creative advertising solutions create memorable and engaging brand interactions by using AI to grasp user intent, offer answers and recommendations, and optimize the consumer journey throughout the funnel.
Meet the Rainmakers
Savvy brands are already tapping into weather for a competitive edge in the impending post-cookie future.
Success stories
Further reading
Check out our executive thought leadership in Adweek.
The Art and Science of Weather-wise Marketing
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What’s your weather strategy? To learn more about harnessing the power of weather to increase engagement and drive growth, contact our advertising experts today.
Contact Us1 According to Comscore, The Weather Channel was the largest provider of weather forecasts worldwide (web and app) in 2022 based on the average of the total monthly unique visitors. Comscore Media Metrix®, Worldwide Rollup Media Trend, News/Information – Weather category incl. The [M] Weather Channel, The, Jan-Dec. 2022 avg
2 The Weather Company Personal Care & Beauty Survey, Aug 2022
3 Adobe Digital Economy Index 2023
4 The Weather Company Aches and Pains Survey, 2023