Watchup featured in the AppStore New & Noteworthy section

Great news to share with our Watchup users & friends! Watchup has been featured by Apple in the New & Noteworthy section of the iPad AppStore. This sounds like an amazing recognition of the latest improvements that we've been cooking up here at the Studio Watchup of Menlo Park, California. Especially with today's release of Watchup 1.10 which offers some great new features:

Here are the latest improvements of your favorite video news app:

✓ Removing a channel is much easier now: hit the channel lineup button (on the upper right side of the Browse View) to delete (or reorder) your channels.

✓ Adding a new channel is also easier: open the channel lineup and hit the plus button to open our expanded channel catalog.   

✓ Newly designed channel lineup button.

✓ Expanded channel catalog with new channels from the U.S. but also Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Italy, France, Germany and more. Email hey@watchup.com to request more channels. 

✓ Channels are now ordered and preloaded according to your country.

All this comes on top of our recent updates:

✓ First channel in Spanish: Univision, the leading news source for Hispanics in the US! 

✓ When your queue is empty, just hit the ON button to play your automatic newscast. The more you use Watchup the smarter it gets.

✓ Schedule your daily newscast with an easy interface

✓ While your next video is loading sharing the video that has just ended is extremely easy with our new share panel, which is now even faster! 

✓ Faster and easier registration process (for new users only)

✓ Non U.S. users are now asked for country instead of ZIP code

✓ Various improvements and small bug fixes

Keep providing feedback by emailing founders (at) watchup (dot) com. All emails will be answered by the founders of our startup. Thank you! 

Univision on Watchup!

NEW YORK/MENLO PARK, CA. – MARCH 11, 2013 – Univision Noticias, the award-winning news division of Univision Communications, Inc, the leading media company serving Hispanic America, and Watchup, the Silicon Valley based video news app for the iPad, announced a partnership to join forces to extend the footprint of Univision’s most popular digital news offerings to Watchup’s award-winning and Apple-featured iPad app. Watchup users will be able to enjoy select Univision Noticias programming starting this week.

“We are very pleased to be partnering with Watchup on this exciting new collaboration,” said Isaac Lee, president of Univision News. “With this new partnership, we are building on the current Univision Noticias app offering even further and creating more ways for Hispanic America to access the news relevant to them wherever and whenever they want it. This partnership fortifies our commitment to providing the latest and most trustworthy reports from Univision Noticias to Hispanic America.”

 Watchup brings all the power of video journalism to your iPad with a beautiful app that lets you create your personal daily newscast out of a curated lineup of the world’s most trusted news channels.

 

Earlier last year, Watchup received the Knight News Challenge Award from the Knight Foundation at the MIT Media Lab and has been recently featured in the ‘What’s Hot’, ‘New & Noteworthy’ and ‘News’ sections of the iPad AppStore. In addition to Univision’s award-winning news source, Watchup’s partners include The Wall Street Journal Network, Associated Press and several other top news brands in the U.S.

 

“As U.S. Hispanics turn to the iPad to get their news, we are thrilled to partner with Univision to give them the quality and the level of journalism they deserve,” said Adriano Farano, cofounder of Watchup.  “By broadening the content offering to the iPad-only app Watchup, Univision once again demonstrates its commitment to informing, entertaining and empowering Hispanic America.”

For more information, please visit http://www.univision.com/ and http://watchup.com/, or follow @uninnoticias and @watchup on Twitter.

Watchup is featured in the AppStore. Again.

Thanks to your support and to great experience we have built together, Watchup is featured in the U.S. iPad AppStore again this week.

The app is now featured in the What's Hot section:

Watchup is also featured with a Main Banner in the News section for the second consecutive week: 

This recognition represents a major milestone for our company and is yet another reason for us to keep elevating the news watching experience on the iPad. If you haven't downloaded Watchup yet, you can do so in our iPad AppStore page, even if you're on your computer. 

Techcrunch reviews Watchup's Daily Newscast

Today, we woke up with a great article on the latest Watchup features published by Techcrunch.

Techcrunch's Anthony Ha enthusiastically reviewed Watchup's newly released Automatic Newscast and Daily newscast features:

With the new Automatic Newscast, you no longer have to build the playlist yourself. Instead, if you touch a button, Watchup will assemble the playlist for you, based on factors like the channels you seem to prefer, the video types that you watch the most often, and the videos that you’ve skipped. Farano likes to describe people watching their Watchup newscasts while they’re performing some other task, such as cooking dinner. Making the setup process as easy as possible should help with that.

Techcrunch also reviewed the scheduled Daily Newscast feature:

Watchup has also added a Daily Newscast feature, which is basically a variation on the automated playlist, but set to play at the time and for the duration that you specify. Do you want to watch 15 minutes of news every morning at 7:30 as you get ready for work? Watchup will assemble the newscast for you, and it will send you a notification at 7:30 when it’s ready. It’s an interesting way to return to that idea of the once-a-day broadcast that captures all the news you need to know, but in a way that fits into your schedule. (And obviously, you can watch your playlist later if your schedule changes and you’re not available at a specific time.)

...before adding:

I tried out the daily playlist for myself, and it was as easy to create as Farano claimed. 

Watchup in the Google Developers Showcase

Watchup: Your Daily Newscast has recently been added to the Google Developers Showcase for its innovative usage of the YouTube API. According to Google:

Watchup unleashes the power of video journalism with a beautiful iPad app that lets you build and enjoy your personal newscast.