Beme (app)
 Beme App current logo | |
| Original author(s) | Casey Neistat (Co-founder & CEO) Matt Hackett (Co-founder & CTO) |
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| Initial release | July 17, 2015 |
| Stable release | 0.7.3
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| Operating system | iOS Android (Coming soon) |
| Size | 15.1 MB |
| Available in | English |
| Type | video messaging, social networking service |
| Website | beme |
Beme is a video messaging application created by Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett.[1]
Releases
The first version of Beme was launched on July 17, 2015 for iOS.[2] On July 29, 2015, shortly after its release, Casey Neistat announced that a version for Android was is in development.
Features
Designed as an alternative to highly edited content found in social media, the app enables users to produce unedited 4-second videos, which are immediately uploaded and shared with the user's subscribers, without the ability to preview the video.[3] Users respond to shared content by sending "reactions", photographs of themselves, back to the video uploader.[4]
Business
By July 28, 2015, Neistat confirmed a $2.6M seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners[5] and Vayner/RSE.[5]
Press
Shortly after the launch, BuzzFeed described Beme's minimalist design as "deceptively simple and decidedly weird."[6] The New York Times explained that Beme's user experience is "as if the phone becomes a stand-in for one's body, the camera facing outward to capture what the user is experiencing."[7] Within eight days of the app's release, Beme users had shared 1.1 million videos and logged 2.4 million reactions.[8]
References
- ^ "Casey Neistat's Video App Avoids the Artificial Self-Image - artnet News". artnet News. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
- ^ "Casey Neistat's Beme Is a Social App That Aims to Replace Illusions With Reality". Bits Blog. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
- ^ "Casey Neistat's App Beme Films 4-Second Videos Using a Phone Sensor". AdWeek. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
- ^ "A YouTube star made an app that wants to be an even better version of Snapchat". Business Insider. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
- ^ a b "Beme - Funding RoundSeed - CrunchBase". CrunchBase. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
- ^ Kantrowitz, Alex. "On The Ground With Beme, The New Face Of Social Media's Raw Revolution". buzzfeed.com. BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- ^ Isaac, Mike (17 July 2015). "Casey Neistat's Beme Is a Social App That Aims to Replace Illusions With Reality". bits.blogs.nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
- ^ Tepper, Fitz. "A Week In, Casey Neistat's New App Beme Has 1.1M Videos Shared". techcrunch.com. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-09-08.