Mobiles Republic Releases Key News Usage Findings; Confirms News Consumption Significantly on the Rise

Infographic Released Indentifies Key Trends: Social media on the rise for checking news; mobile news aggregator app usage increases significantly; less time is spent checking all news sources except on tablets; and male news junkies outnumber female counterparts 3 to 1

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San Francisco, California, June 18, 2013 ─ Mobiles Republic®, a leading global news syndication company, today released findings from its 2013 survey of news-reading habits.

The study, based on the responses of more than 8,000 users of Mobiles Republic’s News Republic® app in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.A., identified a range of trends and key indicators. These include the finding that tablet news consumption has more than doubled ─30 percent of tablet users rely on their devices several times a day to check the latest news ─ in contrast to just 12 percent a year ago; that the most important criteria for consumers of mobile news are that news is accurate, free, fresh and multi-sourced (in that order of consumer priority); and, that using such social media outlets as Facebook and Twitter for news updates continues to rise. These factoids and more were released today by Mobiles Republic summarized here in an infographic entitled “The change in news reading habits 2013”.

“Due to mass adoption of consumer mobile devices, the access and appetite for trusted news continues to increase. People want to remain informed in a timely manner, more so now then ever before in our world’s recorded history,” said Gilles Raymond, said mobile industry veteran and CEO of Mobiles Republic. “We’ve found that reading news on tablets has more than doubled year over year. This is because the tablet allows for new trends in news consumption─ news snacking, for example, and because news syndication apps that provide all of a users favorite news sources within one app is a ready cure for information overload while increasing the user’s level of being informed on personal topics.  We believe our research can reassure the world’s primary news outlets, while also confirms they must have multiple streams of mobile news distribution in order to reach the mobile audiences and continue to thrive.”

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Other Key Findings

People Increasingly Turn to Aggregators for News

In 2013, 73 percent of those surveyed said they use aggregators intensively, up from 33 percent a year ago. Intensive use of branded news applications (such as leading national dailies) declined from 60 percent to 40 over the same period. 

People Are Spending Less Time Checking on News Via All Sources Except Tablets, and Check News More Frequently

Between 2012 and 2013 there was a 12 percent increase in tablet users spending more than 30 minutes checking on news. Overall Mobile usage plummeted by 9 percent, although 88 percent of mobile readers reported they look for news several times a week.

Male News Junkies Greatly Outnumber Their Female Counterparts

However, that could be changing. Women news junkies accounted for 25 percent of the total surveyed in 2013 (up from 19.7 percent in 2012), with women aged between 30 and 49 exhibiting the greatest appetites for news, at 43 percent.

U.S. Media Contact:

Jody Privette Young

jody@mobilesrepublic.com

(415)328-4700

The fastest Sports News for champions and fans alike!

We are happy to inform you that Sports Republic, the leading app for fast and personalized sports news, has just had a major update!

We have updated the design especially for large screen devices, independently optimised for Tablets and iPad.

Sports Republic 3.0 brings personalization to the next level.

The new layout features a fully customizable home screen and a magazine-style overview of selected personal topics. Headlines now update right there on-screen, giving a visual overview of what is personally important to you.

Headlines now update right there on-screen, giving a visual overview of what is personally important. Readers can now access any article through the all new magazine view, or via article lists, for quick news scanning that brings a much improved reading experience.

Kicking off just in time for the Champions League final, Sports Republic 3.0 offers a totally new experience and the finest way to follow your favorite sports, teams and players. Whether you are fan of football, American football, F1, MotoGP, basketball, baseball, tennis, boxing, rugby or cricket, there is something for everyone!

Sports Republic gives you all the top stories every day – a free app with over 1,100 full-length daily articles from more than 100 fully licensed sources with more being added all the time.

Sports Republic is available in eight global editions and five languages, including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Check out the next season of Sports Republic now and inform your readers about it.

Download from the links below to secure your place on the team:

Seems that our latest release on News Republic 3.0 has pleased not only Apple, as we are currently featured on iPad, but also Google as they have just featured us also on Google Play.

These featurings bring us much more than visibility and new users. They prove that we are heading in the right direction with our improvements and give us the strengh to carry on!

Some days have a better taste than others!

News Republic is featured on the App Store for iPad in France, United Kingdom and Italy!

This is the greatest reward for all the work done by our team on our latest release for iPad.

Mobiles Republic, is proud to announce the release of a fully redesigned ‘large screen’ version of its  flagship app NEWS REPUBLIC.

The elegant new look and layout features increased customization, where readers can design their personal home screen by  assigning different sizes and places to their selected news channels.

Headlines now update right there on-screen, giving a visual overview of what is personally important.  Readers can now access any article through the all new magazine view, or via article lists, for quick news scanning that brings a much improved reading experience.

NEWS REPUBLIC is a free app that delivers breaking global and regional news.  It delivers over 10,000 full-length articles each day from leading news sources like The Guardian, Huffington Post, The Indepedent, AP, Al Jazeera, TechCrunch, Euronews, AFP and many more. The app allows users to create customized news channels that filter this mass of information down to their exact topics of interest. 

The app delivers complete articles — not just RSS feeds — which can be shared with friends via email, Twitter or Facebook. Readers can further research the stories that are most important to them by using the TagNav™ Cloud feature to bring up related articles. Real-time alert notifications keep users completely in touch when important news breaks on their favorite subjects.

News Republic is available in eight global editions and five languages, including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Download it for a test drive from your store below:

Or take a look at the iPad demo video:

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Mobiles Republic is Media partner of the Mobile World Congress 2013.

It’s that time again…. While you guys have been keeping up with all the latest news, the designers and stylists have been working away behind the scenes to develop a whole new experience for News Republic.

iPads and tablets have been the main focus this time with the development of a beautifully elegant and highly customisable experience that is just delightful to use! You can get a sneak peak of the iPad version by watching the video below.

Smartphone readers should not feel left out – there has been further refinement to the already  top notch news browsing interface we all know and love.

It’s not all about look and feel either – we have some superb new partners delivering news to us already, with more top names on the way soon.

So watch this space for an update – it will be coming to a device near you very, very soon. Be sure to check it out when it arrives – we just know you are going to like it!

News Republic is on the cover of this week’s challenge newspaper!

Challenges, a highly respected French newspaper has made a selection of the 100 best apps you need to have on your smartphone or tablet.

News Republic has been chosen as the best News app and is even part of the top 35 apps detailed on their website.

Go have a look!  

As an official media partner for Mobile World Congress 2013, Appy Geek and News Republic gives you the chance to follow all the latest news and developments in the run up to MWC and during the event itself, which starts in Barcelona on the 25th February.

So make sure you have the « MWC 2013″ topic on your Appy geek or News Republic home screen and if not add it from the featured topics by clicking the « + » button.

Last week we entered the Blackberry 10 Android challenge in France, with our highly rated news app, News Republic.

This challenge was driven by user votes in order to elect their prefered app on Blackberry 10.

We went through the first selection out of hundreds of apps to enter the final. Challenging against games and sports apps, News Republic finished second behind the game « Open sea! », but being the first and only news app!

So we’d like to thank all our French users that supported us!

What a suprise this morning to see that Mobiles Republic turned into « Top Developer ». Maining that we have been chosen by the Google Play team as part of the very best developers on Google!

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