UCWeb, an Alibaba Business Group Company has announced their new UC Browser by partnering with Colors TV to provide exclusive content and News Feed as an integral part of the UC Browser. With this partnership Alibaba Mobile Business Group is concentrating on digitizing entertainment content on mobile to be viewed on the go which is fast catching up with the likes of LeEco providing content in a similar fashion in their smartphones. This feature will enable users who have access to internet on the go to view content on the go.
The company is making sure that the UC Browser evolves from being just a browser to a mobile media asset by including news feed from UC News as an integral part of the browser. The company mentions that the UC Browser is the No-1 independent browser in India and Indonesia by offering mobile search and news feeds to over 420+ million monthly active users globally making it one of the world’s top 3 mobile browsers according to StatsCounter.
Commenting on the Launch, Jack Huang, President, Overseas Business, Alibaba Mobile Business group, said “Our new milestone of reaching 420 million MUAs has placed us at par with Twitter and Instagram, Our vision in the coming years after success in India, is to serve half the population of the planet. Our strategy is to focus on “Globalization”. which is going global by offering localized solutions in each market. We believe this strategy will lead us to a new digital era, which is GUF – Google, UCWeb and Facebook”.
With the new UC Browser the users get direct access to news feed from UC News which is an App exclusively launched for India market in June 2016. The user has the option to choose or select the topics which should be seen in the news feed giving the user choice to view their desired latest news. The Browser has multiple language support like Hindi, Tamil, etc. With the partnership with Colors TV which is India’s leading Entertainment TV channel to provide digital entertainment on the go. The partnership is mainly concentrated around four marquee shows on Colors – Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, 24, Big Boss and Comedy Nights Live. UCWeb will create multiple engagement platforms around these shows for the users of UC Browser, 9Apps and UC News.
With this collaboration the users of UC Browser can get access to behind the scene content of Jalak Dikhhla Jaa on the homepage in the exclusive fan zone. There is also a blog by Manish Paul, the host of the show giving views about the show in his own way. For fans of Big Boss, the season 10 will be much more exciting with UC Browser users getting exclusive access to the footage behind the scenes, with options to choose the participants of the show and other features.
Commenting on the partnership, Robert Bu, General Manager, UCWeb India said, “Our partnership with Colors is unique in its own way. The partnership seeks to build long terms engagement for the content on Colors TV through multiple platforms such as blogs and behind the scenes videos, enduring stickiness and long term engagement for these properties. Digital content consumption is on the rise and the challenge for content creators is to be able to customize, curate and present diverse content to users to strengthen their engagement. The solution that UC Browser is offering is “Digitized Entertainment.”
It is quite an unique content to make the digital content provided more exciting by interacting with the users by using blogs, behind the scenes content etc.
