Birthdays, Flowers vs. Powers, Memorial Day, World Cup, Widgets, Studio App, Mental Health

Current Projects & Activations

Flowers vs. Powers — "Squeak" is the top 100 item for the Flowers leaderboard.

Audio/Video Update — Rollout is ongoing. Hoping for a final fix in the next update, then 10% of users will receive it at a time.

Studio App Beta — Currently with a small group of beta testers. This will be the permanent version of Studio.

Coming Soon

World Cup — More details next week. There will be 50 leaderboards.

Widgets — Likely hitting beta next week, though how beta will work for this is still TBD. Will include a verification goal option — verification is becoming very important very soon.

Coming Someday (Post-Rewrite)

• Birthday week gift
• Gift tray redesign
• Gamifying the algorithm

Misc

Mental Health — favorited will be partnering with companies to create guides and resources. Kelsey will be speaking with Courtney from JED on tomorrow's Thoughtful Thursday.

Brand Engagement > Ads — No plan to ever include ads that aren't integrated into the experience.

User Feedback

Praise:

• Meggs loves Squeak — chat mostly positive
• Real-time fixes have been awesome

Requests:

• Gift ideas: more birthday gifts, cow, vegan/veggie, pride
• Subscriber chat
• Content program — bonuses for promoting favorited on other platforms
• Taps
• Power-ups
• Speech-to-text for chat

Complaints:

• Overheating (should be helped by the latest update)

Q&A

Will there be an update to games?

• Zach: At some point yes — after the rewrite

Can we have "him" back?

• Zach: Something we can discuss

Sharing seems to be broken

• Zach: Being worked on and fixed

Having trouble with points not showing up in box battles

• Zach: Send in a ticket!

Will subscriptions be fairly priced?

• Zach: Starting with a low, singular sub cost. More details coming in the next few weeks

I can see people I have blocked if they're battling someone I support

• Zach: 100% needs to be fixed — being worked on

June 2nd — wants to do a stream on addiction to honor her 2 years sober. Can favorited make that an official thing?

• Zach: Promote it! If you make it a regular thing, people will find it