Case Studies

Lokal Scales Chat, Video, & Audio: Reaching 100M Downloads

For teams building social and community apps, speed is often the difference between learning early and falling behind. Lokal understands this better than most. Over the past seven years, the company has launched more than 60 apps across 10 categories, reaching nearly 100 million downloads across its ecosystem. Rather than betting everything on a single

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Case Studies

How a Top-5 Gaming Publisher Migrated Off Community Sift

A top-5 mobile gaming publisher had six months to migrate 750M+ players off Community Sift with no drop in moderation quality across a dozen languages. Here is how the RFP, large-scale testing, on-site workshop, and shadow-testing migration to Stream AI Moderation actually played out.

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Partiful Doubles Retention with Stream Chat & AI Moderation

When the team at Partiful first discussed adding chat, they weren't sure they wanted to do it at all. "We felt like messaging was a really hard space," recalls Amadou Camara, Product Engineer at Partiful. "There's iMessage, there's Messenger. We didn't want to just build another platform for people to message when they can already

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How Subito Migrated 10M+ Users Off Legacy Chat Without Downtime

Subito, Italy's largest re-commerce marketplace, moved buyer-seller messaging for 10M+ users onto Stream and now automates 99.5% of moderation, without standing up a chat infrastructure team. Here is how the build-vs-buy decision, migration, and trust and safety automation played out.

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Care.com Scales Chat & Cuts Messaging Bugs by 90% with Stream

Care.com moved off a homegrown messaging stack and onto Stream, cutting bugs by up to 90% while scaling chat and video for 1M+ users.

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Nomadtable Grows Messages 7,536% with Stream Chat

Jay was working as a software engineer when he took the solo trip that led to Nomadtable. He intentionally stayed at hostels to meet other travelers, but found many of them quiet and unsociable. While it was frustrating in the moment, it led to an idea, why not build an app that allows travelers to connect abroad? He quit his job and gave himself a year to build it.

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Together with Kai Sees an 11x Signup Lift Building on Stream

See how a four-person team built an AI companion app on Stream Chat, Video, and Activity Feeds, with an 11x signup lift since launch.

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MyOutDesk Cut Chat Code 50% Moving Off PubNub

When PubNub overages and missing messages hit a 2,500-person workforce, MyOutDesk moved to Stream Chat in under two weeks and cut its chat code in half. Here is what happened.

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How Subito Migrated 10M+ Users Off Legacy Chat Without Downtime

Subito, Italy's largest re-commerce marketplace, moved buyer-seller messaging for 10M+ users onto Stream and now automates 99.5% of moderation, without standing up a chat infrastructure team. Here is how the build-vs-buy decision, migration, and trust and safety automation played out.

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How a Top-5 Gaming Publisher Migrated Off Community Sift

A top-5 mobile gaming publisher had six months to migrate 750M+ players off Community Sift with no drop in moderation quality across a dozen languages. Here is how the RFP, large-scale testing, on-site workshop, and shadow-testing migration to Stream AI Moderation actually played out.

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Popup Frees Creators from the Algorithm with Stream's Livestreaming Infrastructure

Popup was founded in early 2025 with a simple but powerful premise: give creators a branded virtual space to connect with and monetize their audiences directly, no algorithm standing between them and their communities. The idea emerged from a clear shift happening across the creator economy. For years, creators have depended on brand sponsorships and social

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Deputy Brings Shift Worker Conversations In-App with Stream

TL;DR The Problem For hourly workers, communication is rarely simple. Messages are often scattered across third-party applications like WhatsApp groups, Facebook Messenger threads, texts, or generic workplace tools that were never designed for shift-based teams. The Solution Deputy set out to solve that problem by bringing real-time messaging directly into its workforce management platform. The

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