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OneSignal

A collection of 29 posts

Announcement

OneSignal Named Top Push Provider in G2 Fall 2020 Grid® Reports

We are thrilled to announce that OneSignal has been recognized as the top push notification provider in the G2 Fall Reports 2020, based on reviews from real OneSignal users.

  • Dione Lum
    Dione Lum
3 min read
OneSignal

IDFA changes deliver another blow to advertising. Notifications can help.

Apple’s changes to IDFA are set to happen in early 2021. As the advertising ecosystem faces major changes, learn how you can prepare your business and continue to reach users with push notifications.

  • Eva Wei
    Eva Wei
  • Christy Huggins
    Christy Huggins
  • Dione Lum
    Dione Lum
3 min read
Announcement

Announcing OneSignal's Integration with Paragon

We’re excited to announce that OneSignal now integrates with Paragon! Paragon is a low-code platform that makes it easy to build product integrations and deliver the features your customers want, faster.

  • Dione Lum
    Dione Lum
2 min read
OneSignal

Why Push Notifications Will Set the Pace for Marketing Strategies in 2020

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...

  • Lawrence Hung
    Lawrence Hung
3 min read
Podcasts

OneSignal Co-Founder's Path from Successful Artist to Leading with Empathy

Episode 15 welcomes Long Vo, OneSignal's Co-founder & COO. Long joins the show to discuss his career journey, how his past experience led to OneSignal and its meritocratic & empathetic startup culture.

  • Josh Wetzel
    Josh Wetzel
  • Long Vo
    Long Vo
1 min read
Best Practices

Onboarding Engineers During COVID-19

Here at OneSignal, we are continuing to hire and expand our team in spite of the new challenges we're facing from the onset of COVID-19. Now more than ever, creating a seamless and remote-friendly onboarding experience has become a priority.

  • Matt Pillar
    Matt Pillar
4 min read
Web Push

Comparing Shopify Apps for Web Push

Shopify offers a myriad of apps for online retailers to leverage when growing their business. We analyze the top rated web push notification apps on the Shopify App Store to help you understand what each of these push providers have to offer.

  • Dione Lum
    Dione Lum
4 min read
Announcement

OneSignal Named Market Leader in G2’s Summer 2020 Report

OneSignal has been acknowledged as a leading push notification platform by real users on G2, the world’s leading business solutions review website.

  • Dione Lum
    Dione Lum
2 min read
Throughput

Four Years of Rust At OneSignal

OneSignal has been using Rust extensively in production since 2016, and a lot has changed in the last four years. We look back at how Rust has transformed the way we deliver notifications here at OneSignal.

  • Nate Mara
    Nate Mara
9 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

Investigating the Chrome UX Report: How to Boost Web Push Opt-In Rates

Very few sites give much consideration to how they ask their users for permission. To combat this, we explore the results of the Chrome UX Report and offer best practices to help boost notification prompt acceptance rates.

  • Dione Lum
    Dione Lum
4 min read
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.

  • Josh Wetzel
    Josh Wetzel
  • Joe Wilm
    Joe Wilm
14 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
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
5 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
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