Agora Announces Steep Customer Growth in Q2
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:
-- 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:
-- 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:
-- 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:
-- 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:
-- 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(TM)), 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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