George Deglin - Push Notification & Messaging Blog

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

News

OneSignal Will No Longer Share Data with Advertisers

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

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.

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

News

OneSignal will be at Postback 2018 in Seattle, WA July 19th-20th!

TUNE, Inc. hosts one of the best mobile events bringing together the best minds of the mobile industry with a prestigious lineup from world famous CEOs to best selling authors, award winning speakers

How iOS 12 will affect push notifications

Today, Apple unveiled several key changes that will impact how users receive and manage notifications with the rollout of iOS 12. Below, we've summarized the major changes and how they will affect iOS

New features including user exports and improved delivery speed

Over the last few months, the OneSignal has grown considerably. Our newly expanded engineering team has been working hard to improve OneSignal's performance, ease-of-use, and capabilities. Here are some highlights of what's new:

News

OneSignal SDK and Documentation Changes for GDPR

As outlined in our previous blog post on GDPR, we recently introduced updates to our SDKs and documentation to help our clients better control and get consent for data sent to OneSignal. The

Product & Policy Updates for GDPR

OneSignal is committed to helping our clients be GDPR compliant when using our Web Push, Mobile Push, and E-mail products. Our business and legal team are working hand-in-hand with many of our existing

OneSignal has expanded into email

Today, we’re excited to announce that OneSignal supports email delivery alongside browser and mobile app push notifications. Since first launching OneSignal, customers have consistently asked us if we could make sending marketing

News

OneSignal Hiring and Structural Changes

Since announcing our Series A in August 2017 our team has doubled in size. Earlier this month, we hired Bryan Smith as Senior Director of Engineering to help lead and expand our engineering

News

OneSignal Integrates with Google Analytics for Firebase

Google Analytics for Firebase is an event-tracking tool provided for free by Google Firebase. It allows you to easily track events within your app and analyze them later using various filters. In a

Easier Web Push Setup with OneSignal

OneSignal is the largest Web Push notification platform, approaching 79% market share according to Datanyze and other web tracking services. Despite our market-leading position, we felt the process of setting up web push

Our focus on making OneSignal more reliable

One of our engineering team's top priorities this quarter has been ensuring that OneSignal is fast and reliable. Regrettably, over the last few days we've fallen short of our expectations. We've experienced several

Web Push may be coming soon to iOS

One of the most common questions we get asked is "When will Web Push work on iOS?". In December 2015, we published a post where we speculated we might see iOS

Notifications are highly reliable, except when device manufacturers interfere

After several years of rapid improvements, notifications are now at a point of maturity and broad availability to be the primary way for apps to deliver time-sensitive messages to their users. The advantages

OneSignal reaches 1B notifications per day. Announcing many new features & updates

OneSignal continues to hit major milestones this year as we now have over 160,000 registered developers and are delivering 1 Billion+ notifications per day! We've also expanded our team to provide better