The mobile industry is shifting the way we consume video content. At Yahoo, with our more than 650 million mobile users (and growing), continuing to create new experiences on these devices remains a top priority. Today we’re proud to introduce Yahoo Sports Headlines, a new visual way to tap through the day’s tops stories.
Available in our popular Yahoo Sports app, Headlines are quick, high quality videos presented in an easy to view portrait format. Fans can catch up on the latest news by tapping through each video and simply swipe up to read the entire article. The videos are easy to comment on in the app and can be shared on social networks. The new Headlines tab on the Yahoo Sports app can be found on both iOS and Android.
This is just the beginning for our new take on mobile video. Over the coming year, we plan to continue evolving the product and rolling it out across more Yahoo properties so stay tuned!
Missed last night’s late-night monologue on TV? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with the launch of Yahoo View for iPhone. Featuring Hulu content, the new app offers you free access to the best TV moments, including the most popular clips in comedy, sports, late night, celebrity and news. We’re talking the best highlights from Blackish, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel – does it get any better?
Download the Yahoo View iOS app here (available in the US only) to check out your favorite TV clips on the go. To watch full episodes, head over to the desktop site at view.yahoo.com. The Android app and mobile web experience will be coming soon.
By Michael La Guardia, Senior Director of Product for Sports & Finance
Today, we’re launching newly updated Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance sites. Both sites will continue to provide the same quality content our users have come to expect, with cleaner, more modern designs and a focus on increased personalization and community engagement. Similar to the Yahoo homepage and Yahoo News launches earlier this year, Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance are now easier to understand and will deliver a continuous stream of articles tailored to each user. The new designs will create a more consistent experience on Yahoo – across all platforms – with an emphasis on content, communities and utility. These changes will pave the way for more updates throughout the coming year.
Here are some highlights from today’s release:
Yahoo Sports
Yahoo Sports is built for fans – the people who love sports. That’s why the first thing you’ll notice about the website is that we’ve simplified the overall look and feel to better surface what’s most important to fans: original content, scores, video, news and your fantasy teams.
Next, we’ve improved and created a “Yahoo-consistent” news-reading experience, leveraging the expertise we gained from the Yahoo homepage launch. News reading is now cleaner, faster and personalized, offering all the latest information fans want to know about their favorite teams they follow. Plus, we still have all our great live content, including the MLB Game of the Day.
Finally, we redesigned live box scores with in-line tweets. Finding the right people to follow on Twitter is time consuming, so we’ve done the heavy lifting for you. Our live game stream has tweets and play-by-play together, providing an unparalleled game-watching experience. To make you feel even closer to the game, we’ve improved our play-by-play cards with shot charts and other imagery.
Coming off the heels of the rebuild for the Yahoo Sports app on iOS and Android, this is our first significant redesign in three years on the website. Every step of the way, we’ve tailored the new look-and-feel to give sports fans everything they want on game day.
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance will continue to provide exceptional access to real-time data, editorial insights and analysis, breaking news and video. With the new design, all of this is even easier to access, and can be custom tailored so you can get all the news you need about the companies that matter to you.
Cleaner and easy to read, the new design features bigger headlines, bigger photos and fewer modules. For example, we’ve combined the watchlist, portfolios and popular market data such as top gainers and losers into a configurable dashboard where you can add, remove and reorder your stocks directly on the homepage.
We’ve also moved the navigation bar to a horizontal position at the top of the page, freeing up room for a wider, richer content experience via the infinite news stream. Within the stream itself, lots of new features and enhanced capabilities offer greater personalization. Topic-specific “news clusters” appear, based on stories that you’ve read or liked, and easier social sharing options make it a snap to let others know about the valuable information you’ve acquired. You’ll also be able to watch our live market coverage, three times daily, right on the homepage.
With the more open, modern design on the quote pages, content and data are more accessible than ever. We’ve moved the navigation bar from vertical to horizontal, freeing up space for a full-screen charting experience and combined tabs so you can get the content you want with fewer clicks.
Another new feature: to jump between interactive charts you are viewing, just click a ticker on your watchlist. New data visualizations in the right rail provide a quick company performance summary, while a new “View Watchlist” button allows you to see your stocks on any quote page without navigating away. And instead of 15 fixed headlines, we’ll now offer an infinite stream of content on the quote page, with related articles grouped into clusters, similar to the homepage.
One of the new features we’re most excited about is the new community-centered “Conversations” section available on each quote page. We are moving our message boards into a more modern social experience where you can discover trending tags and will be able to post charts and images to express your ideas. Relevant conversations from articles will also appear to help you discover what is being said about companies anywhere on Yahoo.
We know how important it is for you to be able to navigate your contacts effectively and share compelling emails with your friends, family and coworkers. So we’re bringing fresh new features to Yahoo Mail for iOS and Android.
What’s new? On iOS, find a new look for blue links, easier sharing and artist-made stationery, courtesy of Paperless Post. On Android, we’re introducing a complete directory of all of the people you interact with, bringing back contact syncing with your device and launching an Open Beta!
New for iOS: Sharing is Caring
You’ve shared that the below are some of your favorite features on desktop, so we’re bringing them to mobile!
Link Preview
The next time you want to send an article or webpage, we’ll convert that blue link into a visual, informative card that gives recipients a snapshot of what you’re sending right in their email. You can even choose whether you send the enhanced preview card in the middle of your email or below, at the bottom of your note. Plus, if you receive the enhanced link, you can easily share it on Facebook, Twitter and more.
Stationery
We know how much you love sending stationery, courtesy of Paperless Post, in web mail on desktop, so we’re making stationery themes available in the Mail app. To personalize your emails, simply tap on the compose assist button (+), select the stationery icon and choose from dozens of stationery designs including Floral, Thank You, Happy Birthday themes and more!
Share Button
Now you can share content directly via Yahoo Mail. Just click the share button and choose the Yahoo Mail app icon. Whether you want to send pictures and videos from the Photos app, a link from a web browser or text from your notes, you’ll have an email started with whatever you’re sharing included.
The new features, as well as the ability to rename accounts and mailboxes, are available today in the Yahoo Mail app for iOS (4.4) around the world.
Android Updates: It’s All About People
A Complete Directory
Starting today, we’re bringing you one place to find all of the people you interact with. Just go to the “People” Smart View (in the sidebar) and click “see all contacts”. This will take you to a list of all of the people you’ve communicated with, which you can browse and edit. And of course, you can still also find someone you’ve emailed through search and view their details by tapping their picture (or initials) in your inbox.
Contact Sync
As many of you have requested, we’ll now sync your Yahoo Address Book contacts and your Android device’s contacts . This will be off by default, but you can turn it on in your Android device’s sync settings.
Open Beta
That’s right, we’re starting an open beta! If you want to try out new and experimental features before other Yahoo Mail users, opt in here. Your participation and feedback will help us make Yahoo Mail better, faster and more stable.
There’s More
You may notice some other small changes in this update, including new animations (try deleting or starring a message!) and a congratulatory message when you hit inbox zero. These features are rolling out to you today, just be sure to update your Yahoo Mail app on Android to the latest version (5.5).
As always, don’t forget to share your feedback – just go to Settings and tap “Send Feedback.”
By Andrew Molyneux, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo Mail
We rely on our mobile devices for many things throughout the day – to check email, search, read news, catch up on sports, follow stocks, look up the forecast, and watch videos among others. Today we’re introducing a new Yahoo Mail app for iPhone and iPod touch so all the information that’s most important to you is right at your fingertips. We’ve designed it with a focus on simplicity: it’s the familiar Yahoo Mail experience, plus one-tap access to personalized, real-time information.
When you first open the Yahoo Mail app, you’ll see your Yahoo Mail inbox and a new panel with icons for Mail, News and Today at the bottom of the screen. This is where all your news, information, and communications come together in one integrated experience.
When you’re finished reading and replying to your email, see what’s happening in the world by tapping on the News icon. From celebrity gossip to the latest political news, you’ll find it in your personalized, visually rich news stream.
Let’s head over to the Today icon. Here’s where you’ll find a snapshot of the information you care about most every day and search – from your local weather to a news digest to the latest stock quotes and sports scores you care about.
We’re excited to bring you the latest version of Yahoo Mail for iPhone and iPod touch, and we hope you find it to be a simple way to access your Mail, news, and other information all within a single app. We’ll be rolling this out in the App Store to U.S. users over the next the couple of weeks. We would love to hear what you think, so please send us your feedback!
The app is now available in select international markets as of August 6, 2014.
by Nick D'Aloisio, Product Manager, Mobile and Emerging Products
With the introduction of mobile devices, plenty of things have changed. The way we find, consume and share news has evolved. As things become more complex in nature, news consumption has become overwhelming. That’s why today, we’re excited to introduce Yahoo News Digest for iPhone and iPod touch.
Yahoo News Digest delivers the most important news twice a day, right to your mobile device. Our Digests provide a definitive summary of all the need-to-know news so you can stay on top of what’s happening.
Remember waking up to the local morning news? Coming home to the evening news? Reading a newspaper from front to back page? These formats have been daily habits since the invention of the television and the printing press. We wanted Yahoo News Digest to revisit a content format that when read, led you to a sense of completion and conclusiveness, much like reading the newspaper did.
With Summly, we learned that people don’t necessarily have the time to read a lengthy article, especially when they have limited screen real-estate while they’re on the go. By giving powerful algorithmic summaries, we found that people were willing to consume more content when it was boiled down to the most important bits.
We’ve taken summarization to the next level with News Digest, by algorithmically and editorially selecting the important articles and using multi-document summarization to identify the key ‘bits and pieces of information’. We’ve named these bits and pieces “Atoms.” Our Atoms assembled from around the web include articles, maps, infographics, Wikipedia extracts, videos, photos and more. Stories contain different atomic units which convey different dimensions of the story from the who, what, when, how, and why of a topic.
Once you’ve gotten through all the key stories you’ve “completed the digest” and caught up with the most important news of the day.
Our goal with the Yahoo News Digest is to make sure you’re always in the know. We hope you’ll enjoy it.
Yahoo News Digest makes your news reading experience simplified, effortless, comprehensive, and complete. Download the app today and get in the know in no time.
We’ve created a spectacular new design that takes advantage of the larger screen. You’ll immediately see a smart summary of weather data along with curated photography. As you scroll, forecasts, graphs and weather data delightfully animate with every interaction.
We’ve also included a new sharing feature that lets you connect with friends and family by sending the weather conditions and photo for any location via text, email, Twitter or Facebook.
The app’s images are submitted by the Flickr community, and we look forward to seeing more of your weather photos. You can submit your own photos to our Flickr group here.
by Fernando Delgado, Senior Director of Product Management, Mobile and Emerging Products
The Yahoo app is one of our daily experiences – we present news that’s personalized just for you. Today, we’ve added new features along with animated cinemagraphs that make Yahoo for iPhone and iPod touch an even better experience for discovering and reading content whether in the moment or saving for later. And it’s designed for iOS 7.
For those of you in the U.S., we’re introducing the ability to save your favorite content for later. With “My Saves” you can simply tap a button and come back later. If you’re on the go, there’s no better way to make sure all your important news, information or entertainment are waiting for you when you have the time.
We’ve also added breaking news, to make sure we alert you immediately. You can follow the story as it develops from our breaking news blog as information updates in real-time from Yahoo editors.
At Yahoo, we realize that it’s not just the quality of the content that keeps you coming back, it’s the experience. That’s why we’ve made changes to almost every view of the app to make it cleaner, faster and more engaging.
You can switch categories quicker than ever, and you’ll notice that the stream has been given a cleaner look to make it more readable. When you tap an article, you’ll see that we try to include a beautiful, relevant photo with each story. Some of them even have cinemagraphs - very subtly animated photos that bring the story to life.
In the coming days, features like “My Saves” will make their way to the desktop, so you’ll be able to flag any content that you find on Yahoo for later reading. That means that if you save something while you’re on your computer, you can read it on your phone later.
We hope you enjoy the new Yahoo experience, it gets smarter every time you use it.
