Beme

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Beme Inc.
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Beme App current logo
Original author(s) Casey Neistat
(Founder & CEO)
Matt Hackett
CTO)
Initial release July 17, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-07-17)
Stable release 1.0.5
Development status Active
Operating system iOS
Android
Size 21.6 MB
Available in English
Type video messaging, social networking service
Website beme.com

Beme is a video messaging application created by Matt Hackett and Casey Neistat, a popular vlogger and short film maker on Youtube.[1] [2]

Releases

The first version of Beme was launched on July 17, 2015 for iOS.[3] On May 2, 2016, an Android version was released.

On March 25, 2016, version 0.9.0 was publicly released to the iOS App Store. The new version featured a new white and green UI as well as support for iPads and iPod touches without a proximity sensor. Version 0.9 was the first major release featuring a brand new UI since the first public version. It also was the first version that allowed for a record time of up to 8 seconds and allowed you to stop any time while recording a beme and have it uploaded regardless of record time as long as it was between 1-8 seconds.

On May 2, 2016, version 1.0.0 was released also for Android. The new version featured Beme stats in the profile, new discovery screen to find people near and far and now you can tap on Bemes to react and watch full screen. Version 1.0.3 was released on May 3, 2016 and fixed major issues with the proximity sensor on the Android version.

Version Release Date
beme 0.3 July 17, 2015
beme 0.4 July 21, 2015
beme 0.5 July 31, 2015
beme 0.6.1 August 28, 2015
beme 0.7 October 26, 2015
beme 0.7.1 November 11, 2015
beme 0.7.2 November 24, 2015
beme 0.7.3 December 15, 2015
beme 0.9 March 25, 2016
beme 0.9.2 April 11, 2016
beme 1.0.0 May 2, 2016
beme 1.0.3 May 3, 2016
beme 1.0.5 May 3, 2016

Features

Designed as an alternative to highly edited content found in social media, the app enables users to produce unedited 1 to 8-second videos, which are immediately uploaded and shared with the user's subscribers, without the ability to preview the video.[4] Users respond to shared content by sending "reactions", photographs of themselves, back to the video uploader.[5]

Business

By July 28, 2015, Neistat confirmed a $2.6M seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners[6] and Vayner/RSE.[6]

Press

Shortly after the launch, BuzzFeed described Beme's minimalist design as "deceptively simple and decidedly weird."[7] 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."[8] Within eight days of the app's release, Beme users had shared 1.1 million videos and logged 2.4 million reactions.[9]

References

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