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The Weather Company Integrated Daily Details (app) ad specs
The Weather Company Integrated Daily Details (app) ads are HTML5 creatives. They run in the Daily Details forecast page of The Weather Channel app: an HTML5 brand area over a static background behind the forecast, sold as Week Ahead, Weekend Planning or Holiday / Event sponsorships placement on The Weather Company.
Copy limits
- CTA
- 16 chars
Notes & source
- Integrated Daily Details on the Daily Details page, the most visited page of The Weather Channel app: an interactive HTML5 brand layer plus a static, non-interactive background behind the forecast, optimised to sit above the fold on regular to large devices
- No pixel size is published in the deck's text
- Static imagery only
- Up to eight weather variations
- Options: countdown and Click2Cart
- Sold as sponsorships: Week Ahead (Sunday and Monday, on the Sunday to Wednesday tabs), Weekend Planning (Thursday to Saturday, on the Saturday and Sunday tabs) and Holiday / Event (4 days before and on the day)
- Week Ahead and Weekend Planning add a "sponsored by" Insight on the app home page
- Run-of-network is also available without it
- Logos as PNG, EPS or SVG, plus single-colour light and dark versions for the "presented by" placements
- Built by The Weather Company: its Creative Lab sources or finalises all weather imagery and builds the weather-based creative from the advertiser's key art, messaging, fonts and logos, and the unit does not run during severe weather
- Creative may not show severe weather (tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning) and limits bright red
- Logo, copy (20–24 characters recommended) and CTA (12–16 characters max) use no more than a third of the brand area
- Restricted categories (alcohol, sports betting, lotteries and others) need Ad Ops Contracts approval
- AI-generated people need the sparkle-icon or text disclosure. weathercompany.com's "Contextual Experiences" (health and wellness, outdoor activities, sun and moon) links this same deck
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