Demand for Agora's APIs mirrors societal shift towards
real-time engagement
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a real-time engagement API
provider, today announced steep growth across its customer base in
Q2 driven by increased demand for real-time engagement (RTE)
technology. Agora, with dual headquarters in Santa Clara, California and Shanghai, China, grew its customer base by
85.5 percent year-over-year as of June
2020, and it serves customers in more than 100 countries
around the world through more than 10,000 active applications.
New Agora customers built features like audio and video live
streaming into applications even as COVID-19-related social
distancing requirements eased. Real-time engagement technology
rapidly reached widespread adoption as companies shifted critical
business functions to the virtual world. Sources like Gartner
report 74% of CFOs plan to shift some employees to remote work
permanently post-pandemic, making virtual experiences an integral
common part of modern daily life.
"At Agora, it's our goal to make real-time engagement ubiquitous
so people can connect from anywhere, at any time in ways that
capture meaningful human interactions," said Reggie Yativ, Chief Operations Officer and Chief
Revenue Officer at Agora Lab, Inc. "We continue to see interest in
RTE and real growth on a global scale from customers across sectors
like education and gaming. This reflects a larger cultural shift
towards richer virtual interactions in our personal and
professional lives, both to create better online experiences, but
also to innovate in the new business landscape."
In Q2, Agora inked new partnerships with industry leaders in IT,
social gaming, online dating, and more. Partners turned to Agora to
create unique use cases like:
- Online Learning:
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- Applejax makes it easy for parents to find quality teachers for
tutoring and pod-based learning. Quality education needs good
teachers, that is why 100% of Applejax's teachers are credentialed.
Applejax partnered with Agora to develop virtual whiteboards and
real-time engagement via video between teachers and students. Both
features play an integral role in collaborative learning ensuring
your child is learning at the highest level.
- PandaTree, a remote language tutoring service, tapped Agora's
SDKs to improve business continuity and ensure streaming quality
for its virtual tutoring sessions. With Agora's SDK in place,
PandaTree scaled to meet a 300% increase in user demand when
shelter-in-place measures were first enacted. Agora's network,
which delivers extremely low latency, also enabled tutors to host
innovative lessons with shared real-time visuals and
engagement.
- Streamed Fitness Experiences:
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- MixPose used Agora's API to build live streaming into its
platform for yoga instructors leading real-time classes, allowing
instructors and viewers to capture the experience of a guided
session. Agora's video SDK pairs with MixPose's AI functions to
evaluate the yoga poses of participants, helping to offer guidance
and track progress.
- Socializing While Distanced:
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- VirtualTaproom pioneered the application of video chat to
connect craft beer enthusiasts for networking and virtual brewery
experiences. With Agora, VirtualTaproom took the craft beer tasting
experience online with live-streaming virtual "taprooms," digital
"tipping" and other interactive features. In connection with this
year's Craft Beer Professionals Virtual Conference, VirtualTaproom
welcomed 5,000 attendees to a virtual afterparty and trade
show.
- Sesh used Agora's RTE technology to build a unique video app
for free-flowing group hangouts and personal safety. Sesh allows
users to spontaneously start, join or watchvideo hangouts on their
private groups in an organic and flexible manner. Additionally, the
"Safety Sesh" feature allows users to easily broadcast their live
video and location to their preselected safety contacts in times of
perceived danger or insecurity.
- Remote Collaboration:
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- VirBELA, an immersive platform that offers virtual campuses for
offices and educational institutions, is redefining the future of
business, events and education with Agora's RTE capabilities. Using
3D technology, VirBELA creates dynamic virtual campuses that allow
groups of people to engage in real-time through avatars.
- Immersive Virtual Events:
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- InEvent used Agora's SDKs to add real-time engagement features
to its platform, which provides a no-code way to create immersive
virtual event experiences complete with live-streamed speaking
sessions. InEvent's engaging, easy-to-use platform provides a
virtual solution for summits and conferences derailed by social
distancing restrictions.
Agora partners receive 10,000 free minutes of use each month
hosted on Agora's proprietary Software-Defined Real-Time Network
(SD-RTN™), which delivers extremely low latency and high
availability. This flexible pricing model allows Agora to scale
with its customers, making Agora easy to seamlessly build into
digital strategies.
For more information about Agora's partners or its live
interactive video and voice SDKs for mobile, web or desktop apps,
visit www.agora.io.
About Agora
Agora's mission is to make real-time engagement ubiquitous,
allowing everyone to interact with anyone, in any application,
anytime and anywhere. Agora's platform provides developers simple,
flexible and powerful application programming interfaces, or APIs,
to embed real-time video and voice engagement experiences into
their applications.
Contact: Alexandria
Plew, agora@matternow.com
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