Report shows efficacy of platform wide age-verification in reduction of inappropriate content, decreased need for Safety Specialist intervention.

PARIS, FRANCE – MARCH 21, 2023 – Yubo, the live social discovery app for Gen Z, has released its latest transparency report, providing key insights to government leaders, NGO partners, and other stakeholders on the platform’s progress and success mitigating online safety risks with technical tools and policies.

The H2 2022 Yubo Transparency Report tracks data and activity on the platform between July 2022 and December 2022, a period that followed a series of major safety feature and policy implementations, including:

Platform wide age-verification requirements (an industry-first among major social companies)

Real-time moderation of audio in livestreams (also an industry-first)

Enhanced capabilities for user-reporting of content on Yubo

This latest report also represents Yubo’s step toward publishing metrics on a twice-yearly basis, following an annual cadence, to provide data to interested parties more frequently and provide actionable insights to industry partners more readily. 

Yubo’s first transparency report was published in 2022 to reflect findings from the previous year (2021). Each report is compiled and reviewed by the Yubo Safety Advisory Board, which includes experts from leading organizations dedicated to enhancing online safety, such as the National Centers for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Thorn and The Diana Award.

Through the second half of 2022, there was a decrease in the number of reports flagged by Yubo's proactive detection systems after streamlining the way reports were categorized. This allowed Yubo's safety team to spend more time focusing on reviewing reports and taking efficient action. As a result of the mandatory age verification system implemented in September 2022, there was also a notable increase in the number of permanent account suspensions.

“In 2022, Yubo developed and rolled out more safety features, updates, and policies, than in any other year prior. We are looking forward to identifying new metrics and tracking progress on a year-over-year basis to understand how we can continue to improve our safety framework to ensure we can stay true to our commitment to being a leader in online safety,” said Yubo CEO Sacha Lazimi. “This new bi-annual cadence of reporting, will give us more agility in informed decision-making during what we feel is a critical period for online safety.”

“We are grateful for Yubo’s proactive and transparent approach to keeping minors safe, including their recent efforts to age-verify 100 percent of all users,” said John Shehan, Senior Vice President of NCMEC’s Exploited Children Division & International Engagement. “Among the many electronic service providers NCMEC works with, Yubo is an industry leader and one who consistently invests in their technology and people, all in an effort to protect minors who use their platform.”

Yubo, the live social discovery app for Gen Z, has released its latest transparency report, providing key insights to government leaders, NGO partners, and other stakeholders on the platform’s progress and success mitigating online safety risks with technical tools and policies.

Yubo publishes H2 2022 Transparency Report with findings from safety updates, policy overhauls

NEW YORK – FEB. 27, 2023 – Yubo, the live social discovery app for Gen Z, has partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to support the organization in its launch of Take It Down, a free online service to help stop child sexual exploitation and help minors remove their nudes from the internet.

Since 2018, Yubo has worked closely alongside NCMEC, the leading nonprofit dedicated to finding missing children, reducing child sexual exploitation, in an ongoing partnership to eradicate online child exploitation. With the launch of Take It Down, Yubo continues its collaboration with NCMEC to block the non-consensual use of sexually exploitative photos and videos depicting anyone under the age of 18. The service will complement  the wide range of advanced detection tools Yubo already has in place to prevent, remove, and report inappropriate imagery that is shared on the app, and help to further enhance the protection of its users.

NCMEC’s Take It Down service works by assigning a unique hash value to each nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit image or video submitted on the site. A hash value works like a digital fingerprint and allows participating online platforms to identify and block imagery that has the same hash, while maintaining privacy and anonymity. In fact, the entire process of submitting a report on Take It Down happens without the image or video being reported ever leaving the person’s device or anyone else viewing it.  

Through this partnership with NCMEC, Yubo will scan its platform to help remove, and, when necessary, report any images or videos found on Yubo that have been submitted via the service.

To help prevent victimization through the spread or use of explicit content: 

A minor or adult selects a sexually explicit or inappropriate image or video from their device taken before they were 18 that they want hashed and removed, and submits it to NCMEC directly through the Take It Down service.

Each image or video is automatically hashed into a unique digital fingerprint, which can be used to identify exact copies of that image or video. 

Images and videos remain on the minor’s device and are never actually uploaded to or seen by NCMEC or its Take It Down service.

The hash is added to a recently developed hash-sharing list maintained by NCMEC and is shared with participating platforms, such as Yubo, which have executed an agreement to receive these hashes submitted by minors.

Platforms may voluntarily scan their services for the hashes and may remove or report any detected hash matches to reduce the circulation of sexually explicit or exploitative content depicting minors.

“Take It Down provides young people with a meaningful tool to better control how and where their images are used online, and its launch represents a key step in the mission to eradicate CSAM online,” said Yubo co-founder and CEO Sacha Lazimi. “Take It Down serves as an added layer of safety and protection for the teens and young adults socializing on Yubo. We are proud to be a partner to NCMEC in the launch of this service and to support innovation that effectively fights the non-consensual spread of content while preserving our users’ privacy.”

Yubo & NCMEC - a new reporting flow

To further support the rollout of Take It Down, Yubo has added a new option to the app’s reporting flow to allow users to report any content circulating online of them that they deem inappropriate. If users select this option in Yubo’s in-app reporting tool, they will be directed to visit the NCMEC Take It Down site, where they can submit an anonymous report of the content they want removed.

Take It Down is currently available globally in English and Spanish. The service will continue to evolve with new capabilities, such as new languages and hash value matching of live photos or Boomerang videos, which it currently does not cover. 

The service is modeled after the United Kingdom’s StopNCII.org, which helps adults victimized by “revenge porn” and similar acts stop the circulation of sensitive media or content of them online. 

Yubo, the live social discovery app for Gen Z, has partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to support the organization in its launch of Take It Down, a free online service to help stop child sexual exploitation and help minors remove their nudes from the internet.

Yubo joins forces with NCMEC to combat the spread of sexually inappropriate photos and videos of minors online

In an industry-first, the Gen Z social discovery app expands audio moderation for livestreams to the UK, Australia and Canada, after launching in the U.S. this summer

Yubo, the live social discovery app for Gen Z, has expanded its audio moderation technology for livestreams across four of its largest markets: the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. In partnership with Hive, Yubo introduced this technology in the United States at the end of May, becoming the first major social media platform in the world to tackle the challenges of real-time audio analysis. 

While significant strides have been made in the advancement of real-time image and video moderation technology, audio moderation has remained an unsolved challenge. Roughly half of people who have reported experiencing harassment in online gaming – where livestreaming has historically been most prevalent – were targeted by voice, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. 

Yubo has since expanded the trial phase to include all majority-English-speaking regions where it has large user bases, reaching a critical inflection point to gather substantive insights into this breakthrough safety tool. Although still in its infancy, the technology has proven to be particularly effective at detecting potential real-world risk, such as violence to others or self-harm. 

Hive’s audio moderation technology on Yubo currently works by recording and automatically transcribing 10-second snippets of audio in livestreams of 10 or more people. The text is then instantly scanned using artificial intelligence. Only transcripts containing words or phrases that violate the app’s Community Guidelines are flagged for review by Yubo’s Safety Specialists, who begin investigating the incidents in real time to determine what actions should be taken, including whether it is necessary to escalate to law enforcement. Transcripts with no suspected violations are not reviewed nor kept. 

The algorithms that power this audio moderation technology utilize machine learning and will therefore continue to improve and become more precise with time. To protect user privacy, livestream transcripts that have not been flagged for investigation are deleted after 24 hours. Transcripts that are flagged and require investigation internally or by law enforcement are stored for up to a year. 

“Our expansion of audio moderation technology is not only a key element of Yubo’s ever-evolving safety product roadmap, but a critical development in expanding the parameters of online safety industry-wide,” said Yubo Chief Operating Officer Marc-Antoine Durand. “There is still a lot of progress to be made in the area of voice detection, but we are proud to be forging a path for our peers by being the first to launch audio moderation with Hive and helping make this tool more reliable and effective through this trial.”

Yubo first deployed audio moderation technology this summer to a small cross-section of users in the US. With greater scale across four primary markets, audio moderation keywords now trigger an average of 600 livestreams per day for review by Safety Specialists. Still, a significant share of these constitute “false positives.” False positives refer to instances where, for example, a song playing in the background or playful language containing triggering keywords are flagged for review, but are not actually instances of harmful speech. False positives highlight not just the complexity of effective online content moderation, but also the importance of combining technical tools with human oversight for nuance and context. That's why at Yubo human moderators always have the final say on what moderation action to take and continuously supervise the detection algorithms. 

Yubo scales real-time audio moderation technology across four major international markets

Robust age-verification technology enhances Gen Z platform’s existing safety tools and combats bad actors – bots or humans – seeking to breach security systems

PARIS, FRANCE – SEPT. 14, 2022 – Yubo, a live social discovery platform for Gen Z, is the first major social media app in the world to implement comprehensive age-verification for all its users, a groundbreaking milestone in a key area of concern in online safety today.

Yubo 100% Age Verification

In partnership with leading digital identity provider Yoti, Yubo first introduced this age-verification system in May for users ages 13 and 14, with the goal of scaling verification across all ages by year-end. Following the successful trial, the technology integration was accelerated, with all Apple users becoming verified three months ahead of schedule. The new age-verification technology will be fully deployed to Android users, who make up roughly 10 percent of users on Yubo, in the coming weeks.

The new system further mitigates risks of child abuse and other such acts by preventing users who might misrepresent their age for ill intent from joining the platform. Age-verification technology also strengthens age-gating on Yubo, which separates users into different communities based on age to limit interaction betweens teens and adults – a unique feature among social media platforms today.

“Our commitment to empowering Gen Z to express themselves and connect authentically online is second only to our commitment to continually advancing Yubo’s position as a leader in safety innovation,” said Yubo CEO Sacha Lazimi. “By continually applying new safety measures, such as mandatory age verification, to our platform, we are taking a clear stance that we are willing to drive away a portion of users in order to prioritize making Yubo as safe as it can possibly be."

Yubo’s new age-verification system prompts first-time users signing up for an account, or existing users who haven’t yet been verified, to take a real-time photo of their face on the app, using Yoti’s facial age estimation technology. Yoti’s technology accurately estimates age by looking at an image of a face, which is analyzed as a pattern of pixels. The technology converts the pixels to numbers and matches them to an age. Designed with privacy at its core, the system has no way of linking a face to a name. If analysis detects a discrepancy between the age provided and Yoti’s facial age estimation, additional identification steps to access Yubo are required, through an in-app process overseen by Yubo Safety Specialists in accordance with “privacy by design” principles set forth by European data privacy laws.

Yoti is able to verify that a user is above or below a given age threshold consistently across all ages, genders, and skin tones, and its technology is certified by iBeta, the gold standard for such technologies. Yoti is a trusted partner of major retail and financial services firms, business software clients, government agencies and the Post Office of the United Kingdom, where Yoti is headquartered.

“With over 60 million users, Yubo understands the immense challenge of ensuring that their community remains safe,” said Yoti CEO Robin Tombs. “By using our industry-leading age verification across their entire platform, users who want to enjoy Yubo responsibly have an easy, privacy-preserving tool to verify their age. We are proud to collaborate with Yubo to help safeguard young people and create age appropriate experiences online.”

All developments and policies on the platform are guided by the expertise of Yubo’s Safety Board, which is made up of respected thought leaders from such organizations as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Thorn, and INTERPOL.

“Yubo has gone above and beyond to enhance the online experiences of Gen Z on its platform by proactively mitigating safety risks,” said Annie Mullins OBE, Yubo Independent Safety Advisor and former executive of Yahoo! UK and Vodafone, where she led user-protection programs and other such initiatives. “Its rapid, full-scale deployment of sophisticated age-verification technology with Yoti is just the latest evidence of its unwavering commitment to online safety innovation.”

In addition to implementing age-verification tech across its entire platform, Yubo is also the first social media platform in the world to introduce real-time audio and video moderation of livestreams, with instant intervention from human Safety Specialists when needed. In addition to Safety Specialists and the Emergency Escalation team members who support them, a range of cutting-edge technical tools also monitor activity on Yubo. 

Yubo is a live social discovery app making it easy for Gen Z to expand their social circles and hang out online with new friends from around the world. By eliminating likes and follows, we empower young people to show up as their true selves and connect as authentically as they would offline. Safety is a cornerstone of our platform, and we are proud to be the first social app in the world to introduce comprehensive user-age verification tools and real-time video and audio moderation for livestreams. Founded in France in 2015, Yubo today is used across more than 140 countries by over 60 million users. Visit us at yubo.live to learn more and follow our journey. 

Yoti is a digital identity technology company that allows organizations to verify identities and trusted credentials online and in person. Yoti’s products span identity verification, age verification, document eSigning, access management, and authentication. Over 12 million people have downloaded the free Yoti app globally. Yoti is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Polish. Yoti is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2013 for ID Verification Services, ISAE 3000 (SOC 2) Type 2 certified for its technical and organizational security processes. For more information please visit www.yoti.com.

Yubo, a live social discovery platform for Gen Z, is the first major social media app in the world to implement comprehensive age-verification for all its users, a groundbreaking milestone in a key area of concern in online safety today.
In partnership with leading digital identity provider Yoti, Yubo first introduced this age-verification system in May for users ages 13 and 14, with the goal of scaling verification across all ages by year-end. Following the successful trial, the technology integration was accelerated, with all Apple users becoming verified three months ahead of schedule. The new age-verification technology will be fully deployed to Android users, who make up roughly 10 percent of users on Yubo, in the coming weeks.

Yubo to become first major social media platform to age-verify 100% of its users

Yubo to become the first major social media app to institute wide age verification for all users

Cutting-edge age verification technology will safeguard the app’s 60 million Gen Z users and buildon Yubo’s existing industry-leading safety practices  

May 17, 2022 | Yubo, the social live-streaming app for Gen Z, today announces that it is implementing an industry-leading age verification feature in partnership with digital identity provider Yoti. Yubo will become the first major social media app to institute a wide age verification process across its platform to make sure its users are the age they say they are when interacting on the app. This age verification feature has launched in beta stage for users ages 13 and 14 with the goal of age-verifying 100% of all users on the platform by the end of 2022. 

London-based digital identity provider Yoti has been a trusted partner of Yubo since 2019, when Yubo became the first social media app to adopt its privacy-friendly technology to verify suspicious accounts. The partnership will now see them add another layer of age authentication to the platform as Yubo makes ID verification widely accessible within the app. 

Yoti built this technology to give people a secure way to prove how old they are in different everyday scenarios. For Yubo, it will play an important part in protecting its young users by ensuring the separation of minors and adults on the app – one of today’s top online safety challenges. Built with ‘privacy by design’ in mind, this approach will not require any personal details or documents for a user to receive their age estimate, thus their information is never seen by another person. Features of this new system include: 

Advanced age verification process: In order to make the age verification seamless and accessible to all users, Yubo’s new system will not require any identification documents unless a user’s age doesn’t match – instead users will take a real-time photo of themselves within the Yubo app, which Yoti's age estimation technology will then process. The technology will ensure users access the correct age group on the app and enable wide scalability. 

Enhanced security: After a user takes their photo, Yoti’s passive liveness algorithm analyses it to confirm the image being used is not a fake or a spoofing attempt. Users who do not have the correct age on their profiles will be asked to verify their identity through additional processes before accessing the app. 

Improved accuracy: Yoti’s technology, which is privacy-preserving, continues to grow in accuracy year on year. It is able to correctly verify that a user is above or below an age threshold, working fairly across all ages, genders, and skin tones. As a trusted identity platform, the Yoti age estimation system can effectively estimate the ages of 6 to 12-year-old users within 1.3 years and those between 13 and 19 within 1.5 years. Yoti’s proprietary liveness detection technology is certified by iBeta, the gold standard for such technologies. 

This new age verification approach is the latest in the platform’s long history of safety-driven initiatives to protect the Yubo community, including real-time AI and human moderation for live streaming, educating users on safe and responsible behaviours online, and working closely with leading safety experts:

Keeping users safe on live streams: Yubo is the first platform in the world to undertake real-time intervention in online live streaming. By using AI technology and human moderation, Yubo has created a system that maximises its ability to identify when a user is breaking the rules or putting themselves at risk. Advanced AI filters monitor each live stream by taking screenshots second by second and flagging inappropriate content to human moderators in real-time 24/7 on the app. The technology screens for nudity, partial nudity, including underwear, suggestive content, drug usage, weapons, blood and violence.

Educational safety features: Educational safety features and personalised modification options are prominent on the app through pop-ups and alerts sent to users if they are participating in harmful and inappropriate behaviours or sharing sensitive personal information. This prompts them to think twice before they share. Users are also empowered to block specific words and phrases on the app that they find upsetting by using the Muted Words feature launched last year. This gives them more control over what type of interactions they want to have and content they want to see. 

Safety Advisory Board: Yubo has created a safety advisory board made up of international online safety experts who provide invaluable advice and inform its proactive strategy to safety. Over the past three years, Yubo has worked closely  with this board, as well as governments, NGOs, and charities to evolve and innovate on Yubo’s safety strategy and  identify how else to further protect its users. 

Annie Mullins, OBE, Independent Safety Advisor at Yubo, says, “Yubo has shown relentless dedication to the safety of its users and this expanded partnership with Yoti is just one example of this. It’s critical that any company with young users proactively creates as safe and secure an environment for them as possible. I’m grateful to be a part of Yubo’s safety team as we continue to help keep young people stay safe online through industry-leading technology, partnerships and educational initiatives that show Gen Z how to behave responsibly online. At Yubo, we know online safety is always evolving, and so our teams will always strive to be ahead of the curve and innovate with new solutions.”

Robin Tombs, CEO of Yoti, says, "Yubo’s implementation of our industry-leading age estimation technology, combined with our liveness detection, is an exciting and innovative step for safeguarding young people online. Yubo was the first social media company to adopt our identity verification technology in 2019, and we are proud to see the company's continued commitment to user safety with the integration of this new approach.”

Marc-Antoine Durand, COO of Yubo, says, “At Yubo, we passionately believe in empowering Gen Z to interact safely online and giving them a place to discover and belong. Expanding on our partnership with Yoti through this identity verification technology will help us continue building on what is most important – the protection of our users. Many young people under 16 do not have any form of ID, which makes the standard identification processes difficult. With the ability to verify users’ age without ID, we can be inclusive of all our users and add another important layer to our extensive safety practices. This technology will help us take another step towards ensuring that our young users feel safe and comfortable on Yubo.”  

Anne Collier, Founder of NetFamilyNews.org & Executive Director of The Net Safety Collaborative (TNSC) says, “Yubo is a leader in youth online safety. As a member of their global safety advisory for 5 years, I have had a front-row seat in watching the app innovate for improving safety continuously. This partnership with Yoti is only one example. I love that the age assurance technology is designed to work across all ages, genders, skin tones and backgrounds. Stay tuned — there is much more goodness to come!”

Launched in 2015, Yubo is the leading platform for Gen Z to socialise online, reaching over 40 million users across 40 countries. By taking the best of offline interactions and powering them through online possibilities, Yubo is a space where young people can hang out and find out about the world and themselves. It is socially inspiring and enabling a new generation by creating a new space for youth centred around real-time, one-to-few conversations. Visit yubo.live for further information.

Yoti is a digital identity technology company that allows organisations to verify identities and trusted credentials online and in person. Yoti’s products span identity verification, age verification, document eSigning, access management, and authentication. Over 11 million people have downloaded the free Yoti app globally. Yoti is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Polish. Yoti is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2013 for ID Verification Services, ISAE 3000 (SOC 2) Type 2 certified for its technical and organisational security processes. For more information please visit www.yoti.com.

Yubo, the social live-streaming app for Gen Z implements an industry-leading age verification feature in partnership with Yoti. Yubo will become the first major social media app to institute a wide age verification process across its platform. Yubo’s goal is to age-verify 100% of all users on the platform by the end of 2022.

Social live-streaming platform Yubo implements industry-leading age verification system

Social Live-Streaming Platform Yubo Implements Industry-Leading Age Verification System

With so many young people in the Yubo community, their safety continues to be a priority for our whole team. Our Community Guidelines, technical tools and safety experts help to protect, support and educate our younger users 24/7. So we’re always proud to support Safer Internet Day (#SaferInternetDay and #SID2022), a global event that promotes the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people.

In line with the theme of this year’s Safer Internet Day on 8 February – ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’ – we’ve teamed up with one of our industry partners to create an in-app campaign for Yubo users in the US. 

Founded by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Thorn is a US-based NGO that builds technology to defend children and young people from sexual abuse. Its youth brand NoFiltr, launched in 2020, helps young people to navigate the challenges of the digital world. 

Our Yubo x NoFiltr campaign will be displayed in profile ‘Swipes’ and includes four crucial tips about online grooming (see below). Yubo users in the US who have any online concerns can contact our safety team directly by tapping the shield icon then ‘Report’ in the Yubo app or text NOFILTR to 741741.

“This campaign for Safer Internet Day is a great example of our proactive approach to preventing harm and helping members of the Yubo community to stay safe,” comments Annie Mullins OBE, Safety Advisor to Yubo. “We want to encourage young people to think critically when interacting with others online, help them to deal with potentially risky situations and protect themselves from harm.” 

“This includes helping them if they are being pressured into sharing personal information or images with someone they don’t know. By providing the NoFiltr advice in Swipes, we’re reaching them in their own space, using language that resonates with them, and letting them know that support is available.”

In a recent blog on the Thorn website, the company’s CEO Julie Cordua noted that “Our global systems are failing to protect children from online sexual exploitation. We need to move the ecosystem that is at the core of creating this world (tech companies, law enforcement, parents and caregivers, public apathy) from a reactive, siloed, child-isolated network to a child-centered, child-supported, globally-connected, proactive, and accountable community.”

Yubo partners with NGOs for Safer Internet Day

Our collaboration with Thorn for Safer Internet Day is part of our focus on building relationships with governments, NGOs, charities and other organisations in order to help drive improvements in digital safety and wellbeing. 

For example, we’re a member of the Tech Coalition and the ICT Coalition, and our Safety Board is made up of international industry experts, including John Shehan, Vice President of NCMEC, Mick Moran, formerly of INTERPOL, and Travis Bright, Product Director at Thorn. In recent years, we’ve also run various issues-based campaigns on the Yubo app with Childnet (UK), e-Enfance (France), Good Thinking (UK), NCMEC (US), Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline (UK), The Diana Award (UK) and many others.

And, of course, we continue to develop innovative tools that help to build a friendly, safe and inclusive community on Yubo and protect young people from online grooming, sexual exploitation, harmful content and other online concerns. These include:

Identity verification: Yubo users have to provide some personal information at sign-up, including their mobile number and a photo that clearly shows their face. We verify their mobile number and use face recognition algorithms and Google image search to check the authenticity of their profile picture.

Community Guidelines: We have strict rules to make sure that discussions between users are respectful and similar to those they would have in real life – everyone has to agree to adhere to these guidelines. Topics covered include nudity, violence, drugs, hate speech, fake profiles and bullying. 

Muted Words: This feature, which was introduced in 2021, allows Yubo users to block any word, abbreviation or emoji that they find offensive, harmful or triggering from comments or content in the app. 

Cautions about inappropriate content requests: If a Yubo user attempts to make inappropriate requests in private chat, we’ll caution them by sending a pop-up alert, and we’ll block that content from being shared.  

Real-time intervention in Lives: If we see inappropriate behaviour or content in a livestream (e.g. if someone asks for nudes), we send a pop-up alert and use the opportunity to explain how the user has crossed the line, how to change their behaviour and what further action we’ll take if they don’t comply. 

Find out more about Safer Internet Day 2022 in our recent blog. We’d also encourage you to check out the Yubo Safety Hub, where you’ll find information about our approach to safety, advice about key concerns, details of our safety tools, short guides for young people and parents, carers and educators, and a list of support organisations by country.

Safer Internet Day 2022: Yubo x NoFiltr

Music? TV? Gaming? Yubo, the leading platform for Gen Z to socialise online, has made it even easier for users to connect and make friends based on their interests with its new in-app onboarding interface and updates to its tags feature. 

Now users can add tags to their profiles when they create their account to show their new friends the latest topics that they’re keen to chat about. By including the feature in the account creation flow, it’s now easier for Gen Z to find the right tags to add to their profile showing their love for food, tv, music, gaming and much more. 

It will also be possible to add friends by tags too! If a user comes across a profile with a tag that interests them, they can click on it to find other users who share that interest. Users' top tags will appear directly in their "friends" tab. So everyone can create communities of friends sharing the same interests. 

Over six million Yubo users worldwide are already using the tag feature to make new meaningful connections on the app and, connecting over shared interests with their love of Rick and Morty, Arctic Monkeys and Grand Theft Auto V starting new discussions and budding friendships. 

In addition to the Add by tag feature, the new update includes a change to the live-streaming feature. Yubo redesigned the whole onboarding process and has made it clearer to those on livestream if they are a “watcher” (viewer of a livestream) or a “streamer” (hosting or appearing in the livestream) via a tooltip which will be visible the entire livestream to make users feel more connected and comfortable. 

Sacha Lazimi, Co-founder and CEO of Yubo, said “We want to ensure that our users have the best possible experience on the app, meeting new like-minded people and creating building friendships and connections with others. The launch of the new updates and features has already proven to improve the user experience and remove any barriers that were previously in the way with over six million users now making use of our tag updates and features. We will continue to listen to our community and introduce changes on the app to reflect their needs and their experience.”

Yubo is proud to be leading the way when it comes to creating a personalised user experience and bringing communities together who have similar interests and values.

Music? TV? Gaming? Yubo, the leading platform for Gen Z to socialise online, has made it even easier for users to connect and make friends based on their interests with it’s new in-app onboarding interface and updates to its tags feature. 

Yubo Introduces Features to Unite Gen Z by Interests

Cyberbullying has been on the rise among young people and has reportedly risen by 50% over the course of the lockdowns, increasing the conversations around the measures that can be taken to protect kids and teens online.

This Anti-Bullying Week (15th -21st November) Yubo is educating its user base on the impacts of bullying by working alongside UK Charity The Diana Award with the aim to make the Yubo community aware of the actions they should do when you have been bullied, through a campaign directly on the App and an educational quiz. It’s now urging other social media platforms to proactively take measures to protect younger online users as well as educate teens on how to act kindly online in order to protect them in the long term. 

Earlier this year, Yubo took action against online bullying and harmful content with the introduction of its new ‘Muted Words’ feature, which enables its users to block specific words and phrases that they find personally triggering from appearing to them on the app.

The Muted Words feature allows users to specify a number of words and abbreviations that they find offensive, harmful and triggering to them that they no longer wish to see in comments or content on the app. Users will also be able to choose from whom to mute the words - for example, they can block from all users or just those that aren’t on their friends' list. Yubo will then automatically hide comments containing these words from the user's view.

Sacha Lazimi, CEO and co-founder of Yubo says, “Social media plays a huge role in Gen Z’s lives - they are the very first digital natives, to them there is no difference between socialising online or offline. As they spend more time online, it is our job as social media organisations to protect them against online bullying and inappropriate behaviour. 

Now more than ever, this generation needs a space to safely socialise with like-minded people and experience social interaction online. However, it is our responsibility as a business to ensure that they are protected and educated on how to behave responsibly online, not just on Yubo, but on any social media or online forum. That is why we have introduced these new features and will continue to proactively work with our safety and moderation experts to ensure Yubo is a safe space to make new and meaningful connections.” 

This Anti-Bullying Week (15th -21st November) Yubo is educating its user base on the impacts of bullying by working alongside UK Charity The Diana Award with the aim to make the Yubo community aware of the actions they should do when you have been bullied, through a campaign directly on the App and an educational quiz.

Yubo collaborates with the Diana Awards

Yubo, the leading platform for young people to socialise online, has today launched ‘Express Sessions’ to support Gen Z users with mental health. 

Within ‘Express Sessions’, users can find a safe space to talk, vent and seek help and peer support from the Yubo community for their everyday life issues. Several sessions will be organised every month for the rest of the year.

The network, which has a Gen Z user base of over 50 million across 40 different countries, is continuing to take steps to ensure the platform is a safe space for young people to interact with their friends. Unlike other social media platforms, Yubo does not have influencers or likes, instead, users are encouraged to meet new people and develop meaningful connections online via livestreams. 

In continued efforts to promote and support digital wellness, Yubo is giving all of its UK users direct access to online mental health support and resources via Partnership for Young London. This is part of a wider global initiative, where all users in Yubo's four key global markets - UK, US, Canada, Australia and NZ - will have access to localised helplines to support them.  

Ahead of World Mental Health Day on the 10th of October, Yubo is also holding a series of events to help support its users and educate them on where additional support resources can be accessed. The events include interactive talks and Q&A sessions with transgender model AJ Clementine on her experience with mental health issues and body positivity; and mental health advocate Emily Rios focused on the fight against suicide. As well as this, users get free access to a meditation session hosted by power users already involved on the App and a relaxing bedtime story session with Irish-based influencer Shane.  

Alongside this, Yubo recently released a number of safety features on the app, including Muted Words feature, which allows users to specify any word, abbreviation or emoji that they find offensive, harmful and triggering to them which they no longer wish to see in comments or content on the app. Users will also be able to choose from whom to mute the words - for example, they can block from all users or just those that aren’t on their friends list. Yubo will then automatically hide comments containing these words from the user's view.

Yubo Launches Express Sessions

Muted Words offers personalised in-app moderation to create a safer space online for each individual

Yubo, the leading platform for young people to socialise online, is taking action against online bullying and harmful content with the introduction of its new ‘Muted Words’ feature, which enables its users to block specific words, emojis or phrases that they find personally triggering from appearing to them on the app.

Cyber-bullying has been on the rise among young people during lockdown with 24% of children estimated to experience some form of cyberbullying. Yubo, which has a Gen Z user base of over 50 million across 40 different countries, is continuing to take steps to ensure that the platform is a safe space for young people to interact with their friends, giving users the control to customise their experience on the platform with this latest feature.

The Muted Words feature allows users to specify any word, abbreviation or emoji that they find offensive, harmful and triggering to them that they no longer wish to see in comments or content on the app. Users will also be able to choose from whom to mute the words - for example, they can block from all users or just those that aren’t on their friends list. Yubo will then automatically hide comments containing these words from the user's view.

This new feature has been developed with the users’ safety and mental health front of mind. Yubo understands that triggering and harmful words are not universal, different words have different effects depending on the individual, who has used this word and the context the word has been used in. Giving individuals control of their experience means that alongside being able to report harmful behaviour, Yubo users can quickly and easily block conversations that they find upsetting.

Margaux Liquard, Lead Safety Manager at Yubo says, “There is nothing more important to us than the safety and wellbeing of our users. The introduction of our Muted Words feature is another step we are taking to ensure that everyone can use the app without fear of judgement or harassment, and empower our community to choose what they want or don’t want to be exposed to. As more and more young people connect online it’s never been more imperative to educate them on online behaviours and the consequences that certain words can have on others.”

Alongside the introduction of Muted Words, Yubo is also helping to combat online bullying through different partnerships and in-app campaigns. To help change behaviour and educate its user base on the impacts of bullying it is working alongside the NCMEC (US), Childnet and The Diana Award (UK), and E-enfance (France).

Yubo fights sexual harassment online with NGOs

Together they aim to make the internet a safe place for young people, and by partnering with these NGOs, Yubo reminds its users that there is no tolerance for inappropriate behaviour and online abuse as well as providing resources for those affected by abuse online. Working with The Diana Award, Yubo will be engaging its community to ask questions and have a constructive discussion through an in-app talk that the Diana Award will be hosting.

Will Gardner, Director at Childnet says, “At Childnet, we have been actively working to tackle online sexual harassment amongst young people, and we are excited to be partnering with Yubo to help reach out to young people directly using their service to give them the information and advice on what to do about online sexual harassment when it happens. Online sexual harassment is a form of sexual violence and can have a real and lasting impact on those that are targeted as well as on those that witness this behaviour. Supporting young people with this issue is vital and this collaboration with Yubo makes this possible.”

Yubo aims to proactively educate its users on how to safely operate online as well as create a secure environment on the app. The launch of Muted Words builds upon Yubo's existing safety features launched earlier this year that prevent the sharing of personal information or inappropriate messages by intervening in real-time. If a user is about to share sensitive information, such as a personal number, address or an inappropriate image they'll receive a pop-up alert from Yubo highlighting the dangers of sharing this information.

Yubo Launches Personalised Moderation Feature

Yubo, the leading platform for young people to socialise online, today announced it has added 35 additional gender identities and 50 pronouns to its platform. The update strengthens Yubo’s support for its young users and positions the platform as the first to offer pronouns and genders in multiple languages, including 11 others in addition to English.

Yubo is committed to being a platform where Gen Z can express themselves, without fear of judgement, especially for the LGBTQIA+ community, which has always been an active and important user base for the platform. Since April 2020, 2.8 million Yubo users feature the Pride Flag in their bio, with more than 4,000 LGBTQIA+ centric livestreams taking place each day, adding up to an average of 1.45 million livestreams per year internationally, discussing gender identity, sexuality, LGBTQIA+ politics, debates, and more.

LGBTQ+ Life Around The World | Yubo 2021 Pride

In conjunction with LGBTQIA+ focused NGO, Mermaids, who seek to educate and inform wider society on gender identity by helping professionals accommodate and reassure gender-diverse young people, the below genders have been added to the platform, as of today. In alphabetical order:

The below pronouns have been added to the app, so users can add their chosen pronouns to their tag section on their profiles. In alphabetical order:

“Since I joined in 2019, Yubo has had a special place in my life. It's where I can be myself, be true about my interests, and share my hopes and dreams with other people in my community. Through Yubo, I've met new friends from around the world, and connected further with other members of the LGBTQ+ community on the app. Adding more pronouns allows people to be more themselves, and allows them to identify themselves by their desired pronouns. Yubo is consistently building an even more inclusive platform to connect, inspire, and share your life with others, and listens to what their LGBTQ+ users want to see within their app.” – Alex, he, him, his (18)

“Since the onset of Yubo, we’ve believed in being a platform where there is a space for everyone.” said Sacha Lazimi, CEO and Co–Founder of Yubo. “It’s important that younger generations feel seen, accepted, and have methods of expressing themselves, especially in online and digital environments. This is an important step in ensuring that our entire community feel accepted and included when making new friends on the app, providing our LGBTQIA+ users with a variety of genders, so they are able to represent themselves authentically.” 

Matt Moore, Corporate Fundraising Manager at LGBTQIA+ focused NGO, Mermaids, said “It’s extremely important that organisations like Yubo are taking these steps to make their platforms a more inclusive place for gender-diverse young people. We are glad to see that Yubo is constantly working to make the app a  space where Gen Z members of the LGBTQIA+ community can express themselves, without fear of judgement.”

Throughout Pride Month, Yubo will feature several international in-app conversations and panels discussing key issues and topics that are top of mind for LGBTQIA+ youth. Yubo worked together with its users - in the U.S., France, United Kingdom, and Australia - who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community to pick the topics they felt were the most pressing between each other and allies.

Ash, a 18 years old French user explains "It's a great initiative that Yubo has had. These lives allow young people from the LGBTQIA+ community to exchange on many different themes. Adolescence is a time when we are searching for ourselves, and thanks to Yubo and the LGBTQIA+ community present on the app, I was able to put my questions into words. Now I know that I am non-binary and I am looking forward to the gender fluidity live show! ".

Australian Yubo user and LGBTQIA+ community member Asher (she/her), adds, “I’ve made so many amazing friends who also identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community through Yubo. I absolutely love how open and supportive we are towards one another, and I’m very thankful to have genuine friends to bond over our unique experiences with at the touch of an app.”

Looking to discuss gender identity, or just have fun? We have a full program of LGBTQIA+ events featured on Yubo throughout the month of June.

Yubo announced it had added 35 additional gender identities and 50 pronouns to its platform. The update strengthens Yubo’s support for its young users and positions the platform as the first to offer pronouns and genders in multiple languages, including 11 others in addition to English.

Yubo Offers a More Inclusive User Experience

Yubo, the leading platform for young people to socialise online, today kick starts its mission to abolish social media ‘followers’. The brand, which has more than 45M Gen Z users - is urging it’s army of users to drive the message ‘friends, not followers’ and plans to roll out a number of new initiatives across the year to help them do so.

Sacha Lazimi, CEO and founder of Yubo, said, “I read that people with more than 200 followers are more likely to say they felt pressure about the way they look than those with fewer followers. This resonated with me - so unlike other social media apps, Yubo is urging our users to not be a follower and instead socialise online in an authentic way and create genuine online interactions without the pressure of ‘how many followers’ they have. Be a friend, not a follower.”
“We’re not stopping at telling them though - watch this space for more initiatives over the coming months where we'll help users on the mission.”

Unlike other social media apps, Yubo has built a platform without influencers or likes, enabling its Gen Z users to socialise online without the pressure of ‘how many likes’ content gets. The app’s leading livestream technology allows users to jump into real-time livestream chat rooms and authentically socialise with peers in a safe environment.

To date, this unique pressure-free online environment has resonated with Gen Z across the globe. In the first two months of 2021, daily streaming increased by over 8,7%. Its Gen Z audience are also actively engaging in streams with hand raising in lives increasing by a little less than a quarter (24.5%) and live screen sharing up by a fifth (23.7%).

“One of Yubo’s goals is to combat loneliness among teenagers and young adults, by enabling them to meet new people online and make friends,” Sacha continued. “As we seem to be on a steady path out of the pandemic it is an important time for us to be there to support young people through this stage - maybe even facilitate some real-life meetups when possible.”

Yubo is celebrating making friends not followers by showcasing the friendships that have been formed and flourished over Yubo. Its users around the world have shared their experiences, including London-based 20-year-old Angelica (Angel) and 21-year-old Mjay who met in January 2021 during a Yubo livestream discussing, and instantly bonding, over shared political views. Now they count each other as best friends, streaming together every day, despite never having met in person.

Mjay said, “For me, I always felt like there was a stigma attached to meeting people online...I was very wary until I met Angel, but meeting her has opened my eyes to making friendships online, and I felt safe communicating and streaming on Yubo. I never thought I would make a friend during lockdown, but Angel is one of my closest friends, I'm so much more open to making friendships online now I have had such a good experience.”

“It's broken down the stigma for me too, 100%, you can make genuine friendships online. This is probably one of the best friendships I have made for a very, very long time. We have the same interests and just bonded and clicked straight away, it just feels right,” said Angelica.

In Australia, Sarah, a 20-year-old, joined Yubo in July 2020 as she wanted to make more friends and speak to more fellow Aussies during lockdown. During this time, Sarah virtually met her now good friend Paisley, who she hopes to meet face-to-face at the end of this year.

“Living in a regional town in NSW can be isolating, so it has been incredible to find a digital community where everyone can feel connected and form genuine friendships regardless of where they are in the world. I’m hoping to move to Queensland later this year, and Paisley and I are counting down the days until we can finally meet in person.”

And friendships can be international. Federico and Paul-Antoine, from Monaco and France, respectively, are part of a group of friends of about ten people and spend all their evenings together on the app: "We met people on the app who have now become our close friends. We create sincere friendships because we can talk about everything: our days, our classes, our problems... It's the perfect application to create links with people, and to meet incredible people. We talk to each other every day, there is a real bond of trust between us.”

"We also have a lot of fun imagining new game concepts: recently we did a livestream in which we reproduced famous choreographies, with an average of 100 people at each livestream," explains Federico

Yubo kick starts its mission to abolish social media ‘followers’. Yubo is urging it’s army of users to drive the message ‘friends, not followers’ and plans to roll out a number of new initiatives across the year to help them do so.

Yu(bo) got a friend in me

Yu(bo) Got a Friend in Me

Yubo, the leading platform for young people to socialize online, today announced a variety of new platform updates with Snap Inc. and YouTube to create more personalized and enhanced experiences for its users. Through Snap’s Camera Kit tool, Yubo’s 40M+ users worldwide will now be able to access Snapchat Lenses via Yubo to enhance their livestreams.

Camera Kit invites developers to leverage Snap’s nine-year investment in the Snapchat camera, bringing Snapchat’s AR capabilities and Lens carousel to enrich the experiences on their own apps.

There are currently 30 lenses available through the integration with Yubo that have been quickly adopted by Yubo users. Since the launch of this new feature, 15% of video streamed on Yubo has been with a lens and more than 600,000 lenses are used on a daily basis.

The top 10 lenses being used on Yubo are: Big mouth, Clout Goggles, Black and White, Cute Devil, Light, Bubbles, Hellio Head, Sun Ray 02, Dizzy Bird, and Deal with It.

Within its livestreaming function, Yubo has integrated YouTube, enabling users on the livestream to search for videos and watch them together in real-time. By integrating YouTube, Yubo is mirroring how friends hang out offline and watch videos or TV shows together, sharing the experience with new people.

To support its new tailored approach, Yubo is also launching its recommendation engine 'Mood'. Users will now be able to indicate their interests, what they’d like to do or come across on the app and be recommended for an activity or people looking for the same things. As Yubo continues to grow and reach new audiences, this innovation will allow users to seek out meaningful and customized interactions more easily.

“These new functionalities are super exciting to implement on Yubo. A big part of our latest funding round was to level up our product offerings, which we’re doing today by diversifying the ways in which our users can interact within our livestreams”, explains Jeremie Aouate, CPO at Yubo. “Building a strong UI/UX has always been one of our priorities and teaming up with leaders like Snapchat to add key features to our platform is a very impactful way to do so.”

In November, Yubo announced its $47.5M Series C funding round, bringing its total to $60M in less than a year.

Yubo announced a variety of new platform updates with Snap Inc. and YouTube to create more personalized and curated experiences for its users. Through Snap’s Camera Kit tool, Yubo’s 40M+ users worldwide will now be able to access Snapchat Lenses via Yubo to enhance their livestreams.

Snap Inc. Camera Kit and YouTube Integration arrive on Yubo

Snap Inc. Camera Kit and YouTube Integration Arrive on Yubo

Latest funding round follows a year of exponential growth for Yubo with an increase of 400% of time spent in live stream, as Yubo has already attracted over 40 million young people worldwide.

Yubo, the leading platform for young people to socialise online, today announces a $47.5 million Series C round, led by existing investors Idinvest, Iris Capital, Alven and Sweet Capital as well as new investors, including Gaia Capital Partners. As a part of the round, Jerry Murdock, co-founder of Insight Partners (investors in Twitter, Snapchat, TrueCaller…), will also become an independent member of the Yubo board.

In less than a year, Yubo raised over $60m with international investors such as Village Global and the current round investors. The new funding round will be used to support further product development of the platform and strengthen its place as the leading social space for GenZ to socialise online. Yubo is dedicated to creating a safe social space for young people, inspired by the best of offline interactions and powered by online possibilities. Designed to renew the concept of social media being fuelled by likes or followers, Yubo is quickly transforming the way in which Gen Z connects online by giving young users a place where they can just hang out and be themselves without any pressure to perform.

Strong ambitions after a year of exponential growth 

Since its launch in 2015, Yubo has grown significantly in key markets including the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and France. In 2020, the time spent in live streams increased by 400%, as 100 000 live streams are launched every day.

The company seeks to increase its international growth even further, with ambitions to expand its community in Southeast Asia, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. Yubo also plans to open offices in every key region, in particular strengthening its presence in the US with offices in New York, to further support its largest user base.

Following a successful year in 2019, Yubo is expected to end 2020 with a revenue of $20million, doubling its turnover from 2019. To support and accelerate the development of the platform, Yubo plans to multiply by 10 his workforce, including its safety team all around the world.

“Yubo has an innovative and differing business model among other social media platforms and manages the difficult task of connecting with Gen Z all around the globe. The app has quickly established itself as a leader in the highly competitive US market, as well as in all English-speaking countries. I strongly believe its innovative approach to socializing online will make it the must-have social space of tomorrow.” comments Jerry Murdock.

Product development: an innovative and educational approach to enrich users experience 

The Series C investment will be used to further develop the app’s dedication to livestreaming capabilities, adding new features which will diversify the ways in which Yubo users can interact.

These new capabilities will further enrich the user experience with more content via a YouTube integration, new activities and games. Yubo is also partnering with Snap Inc. to integrate Camera Kit, bringing Snapchat’s camera and AR lenses to the Yubo platform. Finally, Yubo will develop unique recommendation algorithms to personalize its users’ experience based on their interests, social interactions, and activities on the app.

This funding round will also be used to further strengthen the platform’s commitment to developing unrivalled safety measures. Yubo’s dedication to building industry-leading safety features, such as age verification and real-time intervention, will continue growing and raising the bar with the support of this new funding. This latest investment will be used to establish additional, regional helplines across every active country, as well as moderation capacities in more than 36 languages, to enhance the platform’s capabilities in supporting the safety of its users in all regions in which Yubo is active. Also, Yubo will continue increasing its in-app support and prevention capabilities with educational tools and key partnerships with NGOs.

Commenting on the announcement, Sacha Lazimi, CEO and co-founder of Yubo says, “2020 has been a significant year for Yubo, and we are thrilled to be ending the year on such a high. Five years on from the launch of the platform, we are proud to have created a new social space for young people centered around real-time, one-to-few conversations. Yubo is creating a space where they can hang out and find out about the world and themselves.”

“Yubo demonstrated that the Generation Z has adopted the platform for good, and the word is now spreading far beyond its original markets as the start-up just went through its fastest-growing period, offering a most needed safe and international discovery experience to its young users.” adds Gil Doukhan, Principal at Iris Capital. “This new ambitious round will fuel its growth and success across North America, Europe, Asia and South America and ensure its world-class safety measures remain industry leaders by far.”

“We are thrilled to back this unique journey since 2016 and see it become the major independent European consumer social platform” says François Meteyer, Partner at Alven. “Socializing has always been a major human need. Compared to previous generations’ closed social circles, Yubo breaks physical barriers and opens to its millions of daily active GenZ users a digital exploratory window on the world and themselves – all the more relevant in current time when life from home is paroxysmal.”

Alice Albizzati, co-founder of Gaia Capital Partners, says: “Yubo has demonstrated unparalleled growth and execution since its inception, having proven its ability to monetize users early on while investing in their safety. We have been impressed not only by its strong capital efficiency and significant activity in the US, but also by how the company paves the way in terms of user safety and empowerment in the consumer social media space. As responsible growth investors, we are thrilled to support this outstanding team in their growth trajectory to achieve global leadership in the coming years.”

Yubo, the leading platform for young people to socialise online, announces a $47.5 million Series C round, led by existing investors Idinvest, Iris Capital, Alven and Sweet Capital as well as new investors, including Gaia Capital Partners.

Yubo completes Series C funding round of $47.5 million

Yubo Completes Series C funding Round of $47.5 Million

Yubo, the top platform for young people to socialize online, announced today the opening of an American headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida that will drive its international expansion to the US and Latin American markets. Operation Heads Alexander Boyd and Katie Boyd will oversee Yubo’s global safety and support team, which spans 24 countries and 5 continents, and the new Jacksonville office.

Throughout 2020, Yubo has surged in popularity among US and Latin American users. US users in live streams on Yubo have increased 350% since March 2020, while Latin American users in livestreams have grown 1200% since June 2020. Approximately one in ten Gen Z Americans has used Yubo.

Yubo’s newly expanded presence in the US will enable it to better serve users in the region. Yubo plans to grow its US team to 10 people in the coming months across all supporting functions, including safety, marketing, and communications.

“Millions of young people in the US and Latin America socialize together on Yubo every month, so we are thrilled to open an office and team in Jacksonville,” said Yubo CEO and co-founder Sacha Lazimi. “During these socially distanced times, online social spaces are more important than ever. We’re committed to supporting our online community across the Americas and our local community here in Jacksonville.”

Yubo has drawn together a global community of 40 million young people who socialize through livestreams, chatting, and group games. With industry-leading safety features, including age verification and real-time intervention, Yubo is focused on creating a safe social space for Gen Z to hang out together online.

Earlier this year, Yubo announced a strategic partnership with The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), the leading non-profit organization to find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation and prevent future victimization, introducing a one-click reporting system for suspicious profiles and behavior. Yubo is also a founding member of the Technology Coalition’s Project Protect, an initiative to prevent and eradicate Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) from the internet.

Paris-based Yubo has raised over $12 million from investors, including Iris Capital, Idinvest Partners, Alven, Sweet Capital, and Village Global, to create a safe social space for young people that’s inspired by the best of offline interactions and powered by online possibilities.

Yubo announced the opening of an American headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida that will drive its international expansion to the U.S. and Latin American markets. Operation Heads Alexander Boyd and Katie Boyd will oversee Yubo’s global safety and support team, which spans 24 countries and 5 continents, and the new Jacksonville office.

Yubo Opens New Americas Headquarters

Yubo Opens New Americas Headquarter

Introducing Yubo Games

Yubo launches a gaming feature in a bid to bring new levels of interactivity to its users, as social distancing measures remain in place worldwide. To Be Honest, Would You Rather, Draw Quiz and Let Them Guess, are among the first in a series of free games to be launched as part of the new package, and were created in collaboration with Yubo’s global community of Gen Z users.

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