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George Deglin

George Deglin

Co-Founder & CEO of OneSignal

Mountain View, California
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Android 12

Android 12 Notification Changes: What to Expect

The Android 12 release will change how developers can reach their users with push notifications. Find out what to expect.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
4 min read
industry news

Will the end of IDFA tracking mean the end of certain free analytics SDKs?

As Apple's IDFA AppTrackingTransparency mandate takes effect, rumors have emerged about the future of free analytics SDKs.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
4 min read
Customer

Happy Holidays and Thank You to our OneSignal Community

It’s been quite a year. Although it’s been challenging, we’ve been so impressed by the ingenuity and resilience of our OneSignal community. Thank you for your support, thank you for

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
1 min read

Everything Game Developers Need to Know about Push Notifications and Customer Messaging

Before OneSignal, our company was a mobile game studio called Hiptic Games. Our experiences at Hiptic helped us see the need for a simpler, more reliable, and more powerful messaging platform to improve

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
12 min read
News

Striving to Empower Customer Engagement for the Mobile Age

From our roots as a small mobile gaming studio, we’ve achieved a level of scale that Long and I never imagined. Every day, we deliver over 8 billion messages, and nearly 1 million apps and websites have implemented OneSignal to re-engage their users better.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
2 min read
News

Push Notification Updates & More from WWDC20

Apple had one of their biggest WWDC keynotes ever, lasting nearly two hours and featuring announcements that will affect every Mac and Mobile developer in the world.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
4 min read
android

Android 11 Notification Changes & Best Practices

Android 11 will be released to the public in the coming months. The main change for Push Notifications is they can now be easily silenced when a user long-presses them. If the notification is a conversation as part of a messaging app, it can also be prioritized into the "Conversations" area.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
2 min read
News

OneSignal supports #BlackLivesMatter

OneSignal will be donating $2,500 to the NACCP Legal Defense Fund, an organization that supports legal action and long term change. Additionally, we're matching OneSignal employee contributions to their related charity of choice up to an additional $2,500.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
1 min read
Web Push

Chrome will now block abusive notifications. Here's what that means for developers.

Web Push Notifications are an incredibly powerful channel and have now been adopted by nearly 5% of top websites. As with many new technologies, a small amount of people have attempted to abuse

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
2 min read
OneSignal

Comparing Amazon’s Messaging Products to OneSignal

Deciding on a push provider? It's likely you've considered Amazon's messaging products. Learn how Amazon's offerings stack up against OneSignal.

  • Dione Lum
    Dione Lum
  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
8 min read
Best Practices

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) Compared to OneSignal

When choosing between providers for push notifications, mobile application developers often evaluate Firebase Notifications and OneSignal, two of the best push notification platforms on the market.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
9 min read
News

The State of iOS Web Push in 2020

It has now been five years since Google Chrome was the first browser to introduce support for Web Push Notifications in 2015, and about seven years since Apple first introduced support for Safari Desktop notifications in 2013.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
4 min read
Webinars

OneSignal Webinars: Browser Changes to Web Push Notifications

OneSignal's CEO, George Deglin, goes over how upcoming changes to browsers like Google Chrome will affect web push notifications.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
21 min read
News

New Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Browser Released With First-Class Web Push Support.

Notifications in this new version of Edge continue to work the same way they did before, and match the same behaviors as notifications in Chrome and Firefox.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
1 min read
Webinars

OneSignal Webinars: Push Notifications in 2020

OneSignal's CEO, George Deglin, goes over how to best prepare your push notification strategies in the new year.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
20 min read
News

Chrome and Firefox are Introducing Quieter Permission UI for Notifications

Starting this week in Firefox, and next month in Chrome (February 2020), under certain conditions, users will see a quieter notification permission UI that is less interruptive.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
3 min read
Press Release

OneSignal Had Exceptional Growth in 2019

As the leading provider for push notifications and in-app messaging solutions today, it is with great pride to announce that in 2019, OneSignal has added 250,000+ new accounts, grown revenue 500%, and strengthened our leadership team with the hire of Grace Lin as VP of Operations.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
3 min read
Podcasts

OneSignal Origin & Build vs. Buy w/ George Deglin

CEO Deglin says, "As a startup you have to think about the cost of a decision and time. If you're getting overly distracted building something outside of your core it reduces your ability to build your business."

  • Josh Wetzel
    Josh Wetzel
  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
1 min read
News

Browsers Are Changing How Notification Permission Prompts Work.

Recently both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have announced that they would be making changes to permission prompts for web push notifications.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
5 min read
News

Apple to Discontinue Binary APNs Push API. OneSignal Clients Are Not Affected.

In 2009, Apple first released their push notification service and API. The API was fairly complex, leveraging a binary protocol...Today, Apple has announced that this binary API is being deprecated.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
2 min read
News

iOS 13 and Xcode 11 Changes That Affect Push Notifications

Over the last few months, OneSignal has tracked progress on the launch of iOS 13 to understand how it might impact our 700,000+ users.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
5 min read
News

OneSignal, the Market Leader in Push Notifications, Raises $25M Series B

When OneSignal first started, the business was actually called Hiptic Games and our primary focus was developing mobile games for the world to enjoy.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
2 min read
News

OneSignal Will No Longer Share Data with Advertisers

Over the next few weeks, OneSignal will fully discontinue sharing any data with third parties.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
2 min read

Mapmaking with the OneSignal Team

At OneSignal, we like to offer our employees opportunities to get to know one another outside of work hours. This is why we host a weekly game night and monthly team building event.

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
2 min read

Hackday @ OneSignal HQ

After an intense bout of hiring, we went from 10 employees to 23 in less than a year. Our new employees spanned departments, skills, and offices (CA and NY). We knew we wanted

  • George Deglin
    George Deglin
4 min read
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