Who owns Yubo?

Who owns Yubo?

Sacha Lazimi
Sacha Lazimi is the co-founder and CEO of Yubo – a social platform designed for users under 25 to make friends via the medium of live-streaming. Now with over 40 million users, Yubo has gone through a period of significant growth in the past 18 months.

How does Yubo make money?

Downloading the app is free of charge, but Yubo makes money by offering paid features to users, such as boosting the group one is in so that more people can see it when they open the app. “It’s about visibility, like having a good spot at a bar or at a coffee shop,” Lazimi says.

How did Yubo grow?

In 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yubo recorded a significant rise in use due to quarantined teenagers, with 550% increase in time spent in video discussion groups. And Yubo doubled the number of new daily signups, which reached 30,000 per day in mid-April.

When was Yubo created?

October 2015
Yubo launched in October 2015 and recruited 5m users in the first year. It’s now nearing 40m users, 80% of them are aged 16 to 21, and more than half live in North America.

Is Yubo for dating?

No. Yubo is an app to help people make new friends. As well as making friends at school and through hobbies, lots of young people meet and interact with their peers on social apps such as Yubo, Snapchat and Facebook.

What Yubo means?

Yubo is a chat and live streaming app, extremely popular among young people, with 4.7 million users in the UK alone. It has been involved in controversy since it launched (originally under the name Yellow), being nicknamed “Tinder for teens” due to its swipe-to-match functionality which mimics the adult dating app.

Is Yubo only for teenagers?

Yubo calls itself a platform to chat and livestream with friends. In the iOS App Store, it is rated for users 17+ and on Google Play, it is marked ‘T’ (Teen). Your child can register on Yubo with an active mobile phone number.

What is Yubo age limit?

13 or over
Platform guidelines state that users must be aged 13 or over (though the App Store recommends 17+). Anyone under the age of 17 must confirm they have a parent’s or guardian’s permission to create a profile – although there is no verification process.

How old do you have to be to have Yubo?

13
With over 15 million users worldwide, Yubo is an app designed for teenagers from ages 13 to 18 to make “friends” online…

Can you be 17 on Yubo?

Yubo calls itself a platform to chat and livestream with friends. In the iOS App Store, it is rated for users 17+ and on Google Play, it is marked ‘T’ (Teen).

What age should u have a boyfriend?

Consider their emotional maturity and sense of responsibility. For many kids, 16 seems to be an appropriate age, but it may be entirely suitable for a mature 15-year-old to go on a date, or to make your immature 16-year-old wait a year or two. You can also consider what other parents are doing.

Can a ten year old date?

The age in which tweens develop romantic interests in other people varies tremendously from child to child. Some kids may start expressing interest in having a boyfriend or girlfriend as early as age 10 while others are 12 or 13 before they show any interest.

Is there a dating app for 16+?

Flirtbox is a traditional, easy-to-navigate online dating site for teenagers. The minimum age to register for the site is 16 years old. There is a search option that will show you 16 to 19 year-olds in your area, so this is a good option if you are looking to date locally.

Is wink a dating app?

The Wink app connects users with people they don’t know. It’s designed to work like popular dating apps, where users swipe through profiles to discover new people. Once connected, Wink “friends” can chat in the app or click a button to connect on Snapchat.

What is yellow app?

Yubo (formerly know as Yellow) app is a social networking site where users can make new online friends. Users create an account and swipe left if they want to be friends with someone or right if they would like to pass that profile.

What is teen Tinder?

Commonly referred to in the media as Tinder for teens, the app has been designed to replicate the dating app Tinder. Both utilise a swiping left/right motion to browse through online profiles of users in close proximity and of a particular age range determined by the browser.