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OneSignal

A collection of 18 posts

Podcasts

Podcast: OneSignal Origin & Build vs. Buy w/ George Deglin

OneSignal CEO and Co-founder George Deglin discusses how they pivoted from a mobile games studio, Hiptic Games, to building the world’s most used push notification software.  It is a classic build vs.

  • Josh Wetzel
    Josh Wetzel
1 min read
push notifications

3 Reasons to Automate Your Messages

Automated messages are an easy way to plan out and send messages to your audience. OneSignal's platform allows for over 700,000 marketers and developers to set and forget push notifications with this feature.

  • Neil Nautiyal
    Neil Nautiyal
2 min read
Best Practices

Boost Engagement With Rich Media

These days, people are all about seeing ads that involve custom images, sounds or videos.

  • Lawrence Hung
    Lawrence Hung
2 min read
push notifications

Why Users Like Personalized Push Notifications

Personalizing your push notifications is a great way to increase your click-through-rates and engagement with your audience.

  • Neil Nautiyal
    Neil Nautiyal
3 min read
Segments

Scheduling Push Notifications by User Time Zone

Learn how to increase click-through-rate and engagement by scheduling your push notifications at the optimal time for your audiences.

  • Neil Nautiyal
    Neil Nautiyal
3 min read
Engineering

OneSignal’s Engineering Interview Culture

OneSignal is growing quickly, and as part of that growth, we wanted to share some insights into how we think about our interview process and the intentions that went into crafting our interview

  • Bryan Smith
    Bryan Smith
5 min read
Mobile Push

4 Reasons to Localize Your Push Notifications

When sending notifications, you can increase clickthrough rates by localizing your content: translating notifications and using expressions that make sense in that given language - we'll make sure that the language your users see matches the language they set on their mobile device or browser.

  • Lawrence Hung
    Lawrence Hung
2 min read
Marketing

Prompting Best Practices: 4 Ways to Increase Subscriber Numbers Without Bugging Users

Attracting new users is a challenge that all marketing teams and entrepreneurs face. However, the battle doesn't end there. Often times, it can be even harder to retain existing users and convince them

  • Dan Fries
    Dan Fries
5 min read
Engineering

Build vs Buy: What Goes into Building a Push Notification Platform?

How most companies determine whether to build their own push notification platform or integrate with a third party service. Learn how many engineers it takes to send push notifications, what languages they build in, and what risks are involved.

  • Lydia Fayal
    Lydia Fayal
5 min read
design

Lessons Learned Building Our Website With Craft CMS

We just launched our new website and turned to Craft CMS for our content management solution. Here are some things we love about Craft and learned along the way.

  • Lee Munroe
    Lee Munroe
5 min read
data tags

Data Integration and Tagging Using OneSignal

App developers can easily send push notifications to their users by integrating one of the many OneSignal SDKs. Whether your app is built as a native mobile app, web app, or using an

  • Rodrigo Gomez-Palacio
    Rodrigo Gomez-Palacio
4 min read
push notifications

Best Practices for News Publications: Segmentation & Testing with Push Notifications

We spoke with customers including the #1 digital news source, tech bloggers, and the news divisions of major sports leagues. Here are the most effective OneSignal features they use to increase their clickthrough rates and retention.

  • Lydia Fayal
    Lydia Fayal
4 min read
OneSignal

Best Practices for News Publications: Push Notification Frequency & Content

According to a survey of 30 outlets with mobile apps, push notifications sent by news publishers are up 16% this year. Here are the five biggest takeaways from the report to help you increase open rates and conversion.

  • Lydia Fayal
    Lydia Fayal
4 min read
OneSignal

What Will Re-Engage the Most? Email vs. Retargeting Ads vs. Push Notifications

Abandoned carts costs marketers up to $4 trillion per year. The 3 solutions are: email, retargeting ads, and push notifications.

  • Nabeel Keblawi
    Nabeel Keblawi
3 min read
OneSignal

Why Push Notifications Will Set the Pace for Marketing Strategies in 2019

How do you keep prospects engaged in a world of fierce competition and short attention spans? Here are 5 reasons to integrate push notifications into your marketing strategy...

  • Lydia Fayal
    Lydia Fayal
3 min read
Marketing

Why I Joined OneSignal’s Team and How You Can Too

The company is growing quickly both in terms of revenue and employees. It’s a great time to join because we’re still early - we’ve raised a total of $9.5M from investors including SignalFire and Rakuten Ventures. And despite our early stage, we have massive market penetration.

  • Lydia Fayal
    Lydia Fayal
3 min read
OneSignal

How to Increase Engagement with Location Based Push Notifications

Location-based notifications have a 50% higher open rate than personalized. Use Plot Projects + OneSignal to ensure notifications are timely & relevant.

  • Lydia Fayal
    Lydia Fayal
2 min read
OneSignal

4 Reasons To Use Web Push Notifications for Re-Engagement

Only 2% of traffic converts in an initial visit. To convert the other 98% you have three options: retargeting ads, remarketing emails, and web push notifications.

  • Lydia Fayal
    Lydia Fayal
2 min read
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