Josh Wetzel - Push Notification & Messaging Blog

OneSignal Exceeds 1 Million Developers & Adds New Leadership to Team

We’re excited to announce today that OneSignal now services over 1,000,000 developers on our platform! In addition, we’ve added a real-time infrastructure engineering leader, Matt Pillar, as our new Vice President of Engineering.

Podcasts

User Messaging Lessons from Facebook & LinkedIn's Newsfeed Product

OneSignal's VP of Product, Zack Hendlin, joins the podcast to discuss his experiences managing massive user scale and what taught him to strive to deliver the right message at the right frequency by user.

Product Updates

Announcing Huawei (HMS) Support

In the past few months, OneSignal has added support for Wordpress VIP, a Shopify App, an Expo Integration, and now have added support for Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) for Android devices.

Press

CIO Review Names OneSignal "Most Promising" Marketing SaaS Vendor

OneSignal has been named the most promising digital marketing vendor for 2020 by CIO Review, the leading print magazine and online website that bridges the gap between enterprise IT vendors & buyers.

Podcasts

Building Real-Time Infrastructure

Matt joins to talk about his experience building engagement tools for Redbooth, supporting real-time communications at Facebook, and his thoughts on the journey ahead for OneSignal.

E-Commerce

Kasamba Increases User Retention 20% With Push Notifications

Kasamba rolled out push notifications to its site using OneSignal in 2017. Within a year they found notifications were having a significant impact on user retention and re-engagement, increasing by 20%, and that notifications are driving 40% of their website traffic.

Marketing

CMO's Need New Go 2 Market Plan

The 12th OneSignal podcast, hosted by Josh Wetzel, welcomes Reid Genauer, formerly CMO of Smule & Magisto, and business builder at eMusic & BitBop Mobile TV (Fox Acquisition)

Best Practices

Evino Increases Sales 12% With Push Notifications

Evino, using OneSignal for mobile & web push notifications saw a 12% increase in sales, thousands of additional weekly orders and 8% overall increase in company revenue.

Web Push

Princeton Review Saw 400% Higher Sales Conversion From Web Push Subscribers

The Princeton Review selected OneSignal for web push notifications, they implemented in less than a week and started to see immediate results. After a year of usage they found that visitors who opted-in to notifications purchased 4x (400%) higher than other users.

Podcasts

Personalization is Not Dead; Long Live Contextual Relevance!

The 11th OneSignal podcast, hosted by Josh Wetzel, welcomes Dogpatch Advisors Kyle Williams. Kyle has been at the cutting edge of outbound messaging development work for some of the most successful software startups

Podcasts

Hear How Major Grocer Tackles COVID-19 & Innovation w/ Mobile Messaging

The 10th OneSignal podcast, hosted by Josh Wetzel, welcomes grocery senior mobile product manager, Lina Mamut, to the show.

Podcasts

The Importance of Good Notifications w/ PJ McLachlan

In this episode, we're joined by OneSignal CEO & Co-Founder, George Deglin who interviews Google Chrome Product Manager, PJ McLachlan to discuss Chrome web browser changes, the future of notifications, and the importance of PWA's (progressive web apps).

News

Fight Coronavirus w/ Alerts That Work - Free Service for Organizations Fighting Pandemic

Governments, health, and non-profit organizations are turning to digital messaging channels as a way to efficiently send important news and informational alerts to the general populace, particularly during a pandemic.

Podcasts

Proof of Concept: How to Test a SaaS Solution

In this episode, we're joined by OneSignal Sales Engineer, Brian Starr, to discuss how to properly define proof of concept test to demonstrate the value of a digital service, software as a solution (SaaS).

Podcasts

Web Push: Browser Prompt Changes; Audience Retention Tool & Practices

OneSignal CEO & Co-founder, George Deglin to discusses web push browser changes, and Customer Success Manager, Karima Wagner, will discuss best practices for web push notifications.

Best Practices

John Oliver Is Right, Push Notifications Should Be Relevant & Timely.

HBO's John Oliver tackled push notifications this past week "Push Notifications are good for news organizations and apps to keep subscribers of important and time sensitive information" said Oliver.

News

OneSignal Named as Startup to Watch in 2020 by Andreessen Horowitz Partner

"Started from gaming industry and mobile, the company has expanded to broader market and spanning across web, email channels," says Casado. "Today OneSignal is used by 1 million developers and sending billions of messages on a daily basis."

Podcasts

How Squaw Valley Delivers an Olympic Experience w/ Tracy Chang

In this episode, we're excited to be joined by Tracy Chang, Squaw Valley Holdings Vice President of Digital Marketing.

Podcasts

Building Great Digital Products Like Y! & WhatsApp w/ Pasha Sadri

We're joined by Pasha Sadri, who has been behind some of the biggest digital innovations over the past 20 years; Maps, Y! Pipes, Polyvore and WhatsApp.

Podcasts

Scaling Rust to 5 Billion Messages a Day at OneSignal

We're joined by OneSignal’s CTO, Joe Wilm, who discusses the utilization of rust and new technologies such as Kubernetes to scale a digital service to 5 billion+ daily messages.

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."

Podcasts

How Audiomack Is Evolving Music Discovery w/ Push Notifications

Audiomack's Charlie Kaplan joins the OneSignal Podcast to talk about their business history, purpose and innovating on their mantra of music sharing & discovery made easy.

News

Understanding Data Laws GDPR & CCPA

Data law GDPR is coming up on its second anniversary and the newest entrant CCPA goes into effect January 1st. We're joined by Evan Goldstein, eBay’s associate general counsel to talk about what this means for digital publishers and developers.

News

Understanding OneSignal's Pricing

We strive for simplicity in our product (ease of integration, ability to quickly and easily send a notification), and the same is true about our pricing.

News

Will Apple Ever Introduce Push Notifications for the Mobile Web?

This is one of the most common questions we get asked by users. We’ve attempted to answer this question as far back as December 2015...