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Max Mobile

Deliver compelling weather forecasting for your mobile audience.

Expand your digital presence, drive revenue, and engage with audiences on the go

Capture your growing mobile audience by bringing breaking stories to users with the immediacy they expect, thanks to Max Mobile’s app, Map and Traffic SDKs, and a robust Alerting API engine.

Max Mobile weather app

Mobilize. Monetize. Engage. Connect your news brand with the growing mobile audience, delivering the weather news they want, the way they want it, in a format advertisers value.

Solution sheet

Max Mobile is designed to be among the industry’s easiest-to-use and most comprehensive hyper local weather apps.

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Benefits

Extend your brand reach
Create your own branded weather app to reach mobile users first with real-time weather and traffic alerts and information throughout the day​.

Drive mobile engagement
Engage users with configurable cards optimized for video, providing flexible ad size, placement, and display capacity.

Boost advertising revenue
Monetize user interactions through personalized mobile advertising tactics and innovative sponsorship experiences.​

Improve user experience
Integrate accurate, updated weather data in an ad-free mobile interface, which includes features such as an industry-leading interactive map, 24-hour future radar, 15-day forecasts, 30-mile lightning alerts, and more.

Video

Reach your viewers with a solution that helps increase mobile sessions by delivering hyperlocal, relevant weather information.

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Sample app

Download this app to see how Max Mobile helps real customers engage with their audience across devices.

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Max Mobile SDKs

Inject your mobile app with a robust mapping experience, enabling users to pinpoint weather and alerts to their exact location.

Benefits

Visualize Weather
Weather maps let users visualize alerts and track existing and forecasted weather events.

Easy to integrate
Our SDK kit enables developers to easily add our Swift and Objective C SDKs to their apps.

We’ll help you be a map expert
We’ll share our 15 years of experience presenting weather to mobile users in a simple but powerful way by sharing implementation examples.

Technology overview

Layers
Precipitation (radar), 24 Future, Precipitation & Clouds, Clouds (satellite), Temperature, Wind Speed, 24 Hour snowfall, Road Weather

Overlays (display on top of map)
Storms Tracks, Tropical Tracks, Lightning, Earthquakes

Alerts (shown as polygons)
Tornado/Severe, Tropical, Winter, Flood, Marine, Other

Map Types
Dark, Satellite, Light

Animations

  • Precipitation (radar) – Past and Future
  • Precipitation & Clouds – Past and Future
  • Clouds (satellite) – Past and Future
  • Temp – Past and Future
  • Wind Speed – Past and Future
  • 24 Hour snowfall – Past
  • Road Weather – Past

Max Alert API

Add life-saving weather alerts to your existing apps to keep it top-of-mind.

Benefits

Alerts add personal and daily relevance to your app, keeping users engaged with your brand. Weather alerts are among the highest regarded notification types because of their impact on planning and preparedness.

Native notifications
Leverage the existing Apple (APNS) and Google (FCM) alerting systems. No installation of additional alerting systems required.

Alert moderation
The service includes logic to avoid over-alerting a particular end user in the event of multiple lightning strikes in the vicinity or cases where significant weather remains in that user’s area.

Wide variety of notification types

  • 166 NWS and Environment Canada Alert types
  • Lightning alerts for approaching and close strikes
  • Precipitation alerts include type, severity, arrival time, and duration
  • Ad hoc alerts sent from a web UI to notify all users of events with broad relevance such as large weather system warnings that affect all users

Location-based notifications
Alerts can be pinpointed to multiple specific locations and provide local details. The service can also provide “follow me” functionality that alerts users of local events as they move about the area.

Alert sound options
Alerts can be set as tones or voice messages. Users can select their preferences for how they receive this pertinent information

Frequently asked questions

Can Max Mobile deliver timely alerts?

Yes, Max Mobile allows you to bring breaking stories to mobile users at the touch of a button using Max Mobile’s robust alerting engine.

How does Max Mobile compare to national apps?

Max Mobile enables your talent to use their expertise to tell weather and traffic stories as only they can. Information is provided on a hyper-local scale, providing knowledge and perspective that national apps can’t match.

Can Max Mobile support various streams of content?

Max Mobile comes equipped with the ability to bring in multiple streams of content from your station, CMS, or weather team through other weather products such as Max Engage.

Does Max Mobile support ads?

Yes, Max Mobile supports video pre-roll, native, or in-video advertising or through promotional or e-commerce messaging allowing for an increase in mobile ad revenue.

How accurate is Max Mobile?

Max Mobile uses weather data from The Weather Company, the world’s most accurate weather forecaster overall, according to a 2017-2022 study from ForecastWatch: Global and Regional Weather Forecast Accuracy Overview, 2017-2022, commissioned by The Weather Company.

Does Max Mobile require any hardware?

No, Max Mobile is integrated into your organization’s existing Max hardware footprint, requiring no additional hardware.

Do I need to learn how to use all Max products separately?

No, Max Mobile integrates with all the other Max components, leaving only one system to learn.

Can I “weather enable” my existing mobile apps?

The Weather Company offers a complete white-labeled weather mobile app or you can use our Map SDK, Alert APIs and Data APIs to enable your own apps.

How do I reach The Weather Company Support team?

For linear TV product questions, call 978.983.6350, email [email protected] or submit a ticket via The Weather Community.

For digital/mobile product questions, email [email protected].

Let’s talk

To learn more about using Max Mobile to deliver compelling weather content for mobile audiences, contact our media experts today.

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