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From company-wide Zoom meetings to international conferences going digital, virtual events are here to stay. In fact, Will Smith and Kevin Hart just backed Run The World, a (pandemic-proof) virtual events startup. New! Stream now offers a Live Video Streaming API! Live events turned livestream — from political rallies to virtual concerts — are often

We have recently noticed an influx of individuals searching for alternatives to building chat messaging applications on Firebase. It's important to note that Firebase is a multi-use tool for developers to build just about anything quickly but does not take into account the cost when an application starts to scale in terms of users. In

In June 2020, Stream Chat's Swift SDK received three updates: 2.2.3, 2.2.4, and 2.2.5. These updates bring us further in the mission of providing high-quality chat experience for iOS apps. Let's go through the highlights. Message Translation With this feature, introduced in 2.2.5, you can enable live translation of messages to and from a total

The Power of Images Employing user-generated content (UGC) is an effective way of engaging a brand’s audience. When users are able to contribute content to assess a company’s products or services, it creates trust among customers. Images have the power to leave a strong impact on end-users by providing samples and proofs of how certain

Message Translation With Stream Chat, messages can now be translated on-demand or automatically. In turn, users speaking different languages can communicate in the same channel. Enabling Message Translation By default, message translation is not enabled. However, users can ask Stream’s support team to get access to this feature, and from that point forward, it will

Messaging apps make it easy to communicate and connect with people around the world. However, with new ways to communicate and connect via technology, there are also new ways for your privacy and security to be breached. Private messages could potentially be read by third parties, the organizations behind the apps, and governments who collect

If a company adds chat to its app, it may have its own customer base. If you're building a SaaS application, one customer must not have access to the chat information of another customer, primarily if these customers exist within the same competitive landscape. For example, imagine if a company had both Nike and Adidas

About Betabrand Betabrand is an online women’s apparel company known for Dress Pant Yoga Pants and other activewear for everything from work to travel. The brand’s customers participate in the design process by voting on new clothing concepts and providing their feedback, helping the company bring the best new products to market based on their

However, finding a fair and direct comparison of Sendbird and your other top choices can be difficult with thousands of alternatives. It is essential to determine the budget, primary use case, and must-have features of your project and workflow before evaluating the competitive landscape of chat API offerings. To make things easier, we've rounded up

With the explosion of new technology in secure healthcare communications, there are many applications in the market that make communicating with patients easier, while also keeping their Protected Health Information (PHI) secure. While researching chat with PHI concerns in mind, I came across some really great HIPAA compliant chat apps that provide the functionality needed

Cloud messaging is a service that enables developers to send messages between servers and client applications. With cloud messaging, developers leverage the infrastructure of a reliable cloud messaging provider such as Stream to deliver messages and notifications to their platform users. Cloud messaging includes downstream messages from servers to client applications and upstream messages from

Read on if you find yourself in this position, and want to learn more about the space and options available. 👍 What Is White-Label Chat White-label chat is considered any chat service provided by a chat vendor that doesn’t show the vendor’s logo, domain, or any other type of vendor-specific branding. The term white-label chat

Chat and messaging are becoming ever more critical for application success. When searching for a provider to enable in-app chat, you might compare Stream Chat with Twilio Chat. Twilio is a monster in the space of API-driven SMS support and email (through their acquisition of SendGrid), but their other APIs like voice, chat, video, and

That makes them a challenge to market to. They're not an audience to whom you can target an Instagram ad and expect to reap the rewards. They want straightforward messaging about your product's features and clear pricing information upfront and to see the product in action. Developer marketing is just another phrase for marketing to

Real-time chat messaging is a critical component of your application to improve user conversion, engagement, retention, and satisfaction. When searching for a provider and infrastructure to integrate and enable in-app messaging, you might compare the two major players in the market today — Stream Chat and SendBird Chat. Stream and Sendbird are the most commonly

There are a lot of options available when it comes to finding the right chat solution for your app. You'll likely evaluate the features, compliance standards, performance, and support plans of each provider, maybe adapting your use case to embrace the unique functionalities of your front runner. But while your use case may be flexible,

Update: Layer has shut down their API. Read about how to migrate from Layer and read our own thoughts about it. Chat and messaging are critical components to application success. When searching for a provider to enable in-app chat, you might compare Chat by Stream with Layer’s chat. Layer has been providing a chat solution

Launching your in-app chat feature is critical for user conversion, engagement, retention, and satisfaction, which means choosing the right provider to build it for you is just as important. Stream and PubNub are two major options in the in-app messaging space, so you might compare the two chat API providers when evaluating solutions. Here, we

About the “Real Estate Company” This market-leading real estate company has agents and facilities all across the United States. As one of the largest real estate franchises in terms of sales volume, the number of agents, and units sold they also have one of the largest risks in terms of communication between agents and clients.

When searching for a provider to enable in-app messaging, you might compare Chat by Stream with Pusher’s Chatkit.

When we visit sites like Amazon, Netflix, or YouTube, we take for granted the fact these services have been exploring and learning our behavior for years. They know us well - they make relevant recommendations that are unique to the user, drawing us back to their sites time and time again. The big players in

“From posting updates to commenting and more, Stream provided us with the most flexible and scalable solution for displaying all our user's activities. The Stream team made implementing our news feed solution a collaborative experience and ultimately the right decision for us.” - Paul Chambers, Artist Evangelist at Sketchfab. Sketchfab’s community consists of artists, designers,

There are many feed use cases where it’s important to show updates in real-time. If a feed has thousands or even millions of followers, this can be pretty hard to do. Over the past months, our team has vastly improved the capacity of our real-time infrastructure, allowing you to: Show live activities for a sporting

“The Stream API just works – we appreciate the fact that we simply don’t have to worry about it. It’s simple for us to add new notifications and it scales with us. This gives us time to focus on other priorities.” – Andreas Klinger, CTO at Product Hunt About Product Hunt Product Hunt allows users

When most people think about feeds, they of think social apps like Twitter. Even at Stream, most of our example use cases and sample applications are centered around social. It’s no surprise, considering that Recode’s 2017 list of top 10 mobile apps include Facebook, Instagram, and Snap (aka Snapchat). However, we’re seeing an emergence of

Today we’re reviewing Algolia. This blog post is part of our review series where we uncover best-of-class SaaS solutions for developers. Reviewing other API services helps us come up with ideas for improving Stream, our API for building scalable and perisonalized feeds. You can try an interactive tutorial of Stream here. Getting Started with Algolia

_Today we're reviewing Imgix. This blog post is part of our review series where we uncover best-of-class SaaS solutions for developers. Reviewing other API services helps us come up with ideas for improving Stream, our API for building scalable and personalized feeds. You can try an interactive tutorial of Stream here._ Approximately 60%+ of the

When products are built around feeds, the general goal is to provide users with functionality to share their thoughts, follow their interests and respond to content. With this functionality being user-centric, we wanted to offer some suggestions on the best practices for newsfeeds on iOS and Android. When Google released Material Design, it became clear

Global Citizen is a community that connects people who want to make an impact on the world’s biggest problems. Stream is providing the feed technology and hosting free of charge.