ShareChat Gets 1.5 Crore New Downloads Since the Ban on Chinese Apps
Jul. 2, 2020Following Indian government’sban on 59 popular Chinese apps,homegrown and US-based alternativeshave witnessed a rise in popularity. ShareChat is one of them and the social media platform has reportedly gained a whopping1.5 crore (15 million) new downloadssince the ban.
In addition, a ShareChat spokesperson toldNews18that the company noticedalmost 5 lakh (0.5 million) new downloads for its app every houron the 30th of June (yesterday). According to ShareChat’s co-founder and COO Farid Ahsan, the company has been getting a steady growth since the coronavirus pandemic.
At the time of writing this article,ShareChat claims that it has 60 million monthly active users. The platform is available in 14 regional languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Odia, Bhojpuri, Assamese, Rajasthani, and Haryanvi.
ShareChat is not the only app that is getting benefitted from the situation. Last week,TikTok clone Mitronhit 1 crore (10 million) downloads on the Play Store. The app gained such numbers even before the government announced the ban. Hence, Mitron might witness increased userbase as well.
Meanwhile, ShareChat is working to add tighter integrations with other apps such as WhatsApp. As spotted byWABetaInfo, WhatsApp will soon supportnative playback of videos from ShareChat. With this change, WhatsApp users will be able to play ShareChat videos right inside WhatsApp without leaving the application.
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