Sky News expands Arc XP partnership to create next-generation app and website

Sky News has expanded its partnership with media platform Arc XP to provide the technology underpinning its new app and website.

As the UK's biggest commercial news publisher app, Sky News is striving to become an even more compelling destination for quality journalism and deepen engagement with its audiences.

The platform will allow Sky News to strengthen direct audience relationships and create new commercial opportunities, including premium and paid-for products.

It was built inside The Washington Post and is run by publishers worldwide.

Sky News is aiming to launch the new app and website by the end of 2027, in a move that will give audiences more personalised ways to discover and follow the stories that matter to them.

The agreement marks a significant step forward in Sky News 2030, the organisation's five-year transformation to become a premium, video-first news organisation built for the digital future.

Deepening Sky News' commitment to digital video, the agreement places video at the heart of its offering and showcases more original reporting, with a focus on innovation and better experiences for audiences.

Video views on the Sky News app have more than doubled year on year.

David Rhodes, Sky News Executive Chairman, said: "Today's partnership will give audiences even more reasons to come directly to Sky News for a best-in-class, video-first experience.

"It's a step change that will deliver more personalisation and better commercial outcomes - and deliver them by the end of next year. We're so pleased to be on this journey together with the people at Arc XP and their partners across the news industry."

Working closely with Sky's product and technology teams, Arc XP will provide its media platform, backed by AWS, to underpin the new platforms, including tools for mobile apps, video and personalisation.

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Matt Monahan, Arc XP President, said: "More people now find news through AI summaries and search results instead of going to the newsroom that did the reporting. Arc XP helps newsrooms win those audiences back, keep them, and grow revenue.

"With Sky News, we're building a video-led, personalised app and website that brings audiences straight to Sky's journalism, with Ask Sky News answering their questions from Sky's own reporting.

"At Arc XP and The Washington Post, we're proud to help newsrooms like Sky's get their critical journalism to more people."

The platform will give Sky News greater flexibility to innovate, develop new products, and support the next phase of its digital transformation.

Expanding on the organisations' existing work on Ask Sky News, an AI-powered conversational search experience, the agreement builds on this existing collaboration.

The tool forms part of Sky News' push to harness new technology to make trusted journalism more accessible.

Sky News has generated nearly 4.5 billion social video views in 2026 so far.

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