George Deglin - Push Notification & Messaging Blog

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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:

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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