News360
News360 is a personalized news aggregation app for smartphones, tablets and the web. It attempts to learn a user's interests by analyzing their interaction with news stories on the app and using semantic analysis and natural language processing to create an Interest Graph and construct a unique feed of relevant content for each user.[1] The app has an audience of more than 4M[2] users and is located in San Francisco, CA, with offices in Vancouver, BC and Moscow, Russia.[3]
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Developer(s) | News360 Inc. |
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Initial release | 2010 |
Operating system | iOS, Android, Windows 8, Windows Phone |
Platform | iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch Android devices, Windows 8, Windows Phone |
Type | News Aggregator, Personalization |
Website | news360.com |
Initially released for iPhone in late 2010, News360 is now available for all major mobile platforms, with versions for the iPad,[4] iPhone,[5] Android,[6] Windows 8,[7] Windows Phone[8] and the web.[9]
In August 2019, News360 was acquired by PressReader[10].
History
News360 was founded in July, 2010. In October 2010, the first News360 Windows Phone 7 app was released. In November 2010, the first News360 iPhone app was released,[11] followed by an iPad version in March 2011.[12] In May, 2011 the company released News360 for Android tablets,[13] and in July - for Android phones.[14] News360 2.0 was released in November, 2011,[15] adding an ability to create custom feeds. The next version, News360 3.0, was launched in July, 2012,[16] introducing the News360 personalization engine and the "Home" feed, which merges all of the user's interests, custom feeds and sources into a single feed that uses behavioral analysis to get better at selecting the most relevant content the more the user uses the app. The release was generally well-received, with a New York Times reviewer saying "For a great news experience, the free app News360 has to be one of the better news-aggregating [apps] I’ve seen on any platform".[17] In September, 2012 News360 announced the Publisher Partnership Program together with 30 brands, including the Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Fox Sports, Business Insider, Gigaom and others.[18]
In March 2019, News360 announced the launch of Audio Briefings and an ad-free version as features available in a paid subscription plan called News360 Premium.[19]
Technology
News360 uses a semantic analysis engine, developed in-house by the company, to analyze content aggregated from over 100,000 sources around the web. After performing named-entity recognition, classification, and cluster analysis, News360 uses a complex formula to rank stories, taking in the influence of the source, author, text quality and complexity, size and velocity of the story cluster and many other metrics.[20] The system then takes the clustered and ranked set of stories and identifies a personalized selection for each user, based on their interest graph.[21] The Interest Graph is initially constructed by collecting, with permission, user data from Facebook, Twitter or Evernote.[22] As the user uses News360, additional data is collected from their behavior - as they read stories and give feedback, the interest graph becomes more and more accurate and attuned to their real interests, making the personalization more effective.[6]
In 2016, News360 launched NativeAI, an audience analytics tool for publishers and content marketers.[23] NativeAI tracks over a million unique audience interests based on reader behavior on publishers' websites and provides publishers with a cloud-based analytics & content monetization service[24]. The content monetization works through sponsored content[24] while the analytics uses machine learning to give insights on audience engagement.[25]
See also
- Pulse
References
- "News360 is Changing the Content Delivery Game". Scobleizer. 1 Sep 2011. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "News360 Mobilizes Native Advertising With Personalized Content". Mediapost. 5 Aug 2013. Retrieved 12 Feb 2014.
- "News360 Crunchbase Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "News360 Revamps Its iPad App: New Look, New Home Screen, New Reading Scores". TechCrunch. 10 Jul 2012. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "Thanks to an update, the News360 iPhone app is now as sleek as it is smart". Digital Trends. 29 Nov 2012. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "News360′s Roman Karachinsky Shows Off Revamped Android App, Hints At Plans Beyond News". TechCrunch. 3 Mar 2013. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "Interview: We chat with the CEO of News360 for Windows 8". Neowin. 4 Nov 2012. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "News360 Is the Wikipedia of News Apps". WindowsPhoneDaily.com. 27 May 2011. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "NEWS360 2.0 BRINGS WEB APP, UPDATES FOR IPAD AND HONEYCOMB". BGR. 10 Aug 2011. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "PressReader aims to add more personalization to its digital news platform by acquiring News360". TechCrunch. 20 Aug 2019. Retrieved 3 Sep 2019.
- "News360 delivers smarter news to your iPhone". VentureBeat. 20 Dec 2010. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "DEMO: News360 takes personalized news feeds mobile". VentureBeat. 1 Mar 2011. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "News360 now available for Honeycomb tablets". Android Central. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "News360 for phones now available". Android Central. 7 Jul 2011. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "Personalized News Reader News360 2.0 Arrives On iPhone". TechCrunch. 1 Nov 2011. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "Improved News360 iPad App Learns Your News Habits, Wisely Consolidates". ABC News. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "Showing Off a Tablet's Graphical Powers, Android Style". New York Times. 14 Nov 2012. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "News360 Offers Publishers a Branded Presence". Wall Street Journal. 21 Sep 2012. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "News360 Premium". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- "The Long Quest for Personalization". News360 blog. 5 Apr 2011. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "NEWS360 3.0 NOW AVAILABLE FOR IPHONE AND ANDROID SMARTPHONES [UPDATED]". BGR. 1 Nov 2011. Retrieved 21 Mar 2013.
- "news360 Aims to Make News Social". Wall Street Journal TechEurope. 11 Aug 2011. Retrieved 19 Apr 2013.
- "News360 Launches Free Audience Analytics Tool For Publishers And Content Marketers - Marketing Land". Marketing Land. 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
- "News360 adds native ads to its free publisher analytics - MarTech Today". MarTech Today. 2016-05-05. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
- "NativeAI Market Share and Web Usage Statistics". SimilarTech. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
External links
- news360.com, Official website
- News360 on Twitter
- News360 personalized news on iOS
- News360 news app on Android Playstore
- Native.AI publisher analytics, Official website