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Sky News has expanded its partnership with Arc XP, the media platform built inside The Washington Post and run by publishers worldwide. The renewed collaboration aims to provide the technology underpinning its new app and website, targeted for launch by the end of 2027, as Sky has claimed in a statement.

The agreement, according to the group, 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, with a focus on innovation and better experiences for audiences.

The new app and website will put video at the heart of the offering, with the intention of showcasing more original reporting and giving audiences more personalised ways to discover and follow the stories that matter to them.

The investment’s objective is to make Sky News a more compelling destination for its journalism, deepening engagement with existing users, strengthening direct audience relationships and creating new commercial opportunities, including premium and paid-for products.

David Rhodes, Sky News Executive Chairman, comments: “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 ArcXP and their partners across the news industry”.

Matt Monahan, Arc XP President, adds: “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”.

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. The expanded agreement builds on the organisation’s existing work on Ask Sky News, an AI-powered conversational search experience and intuitive for audiences.