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Group Video Chat Apps

Facebook's Standalone Bonfire App Also Has Special Effects Features

— September 14, 2017 — Social Media
In its continued efforts to diversify and maintain relevancy with its users, Facebook quietly launched a group video chat app called Bonfire in Denmark. The mobile app enables you and up to eight friends and their friends to communicate via video. Like similar social networking platforms, the smartphone application also lets you express yourself by playing around with effects and take and share photos from your video chats.

Compatible with iOS devices like iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, the standalone app from Facebook Inc is a new way to bring friends together. You can also access the group video chat app via Facebook Messenger, even if you have not actually downloaded Bonfire. It's only available to Danish people, but they can invite anyone to video chat through Messenger.
Trend Themes
1. Group Video Chatting - The increasing popularity of group video chatting platforms offers innovative opportunities for companies to integrate and monetize real-time communication services.
2. Special Effects Features - The integration of special effects features in video chatting apps has the potential to revolutionize user engagement, and enhance the overall video chatting experience.
3. Standalone Video Chatting Apps - The increasing trend towards standalone video chatting apps presents a crucial opportunity for companies to improve user engagement and monetize through advertising and in-app purchases.
Industry Implications
1. Mobile App Development - Companies in mobile app development can leverage the trend towards group video chatting and create innovative apps with unique features that increase user engagement.
2. Social Networking - The popularity of group video chatting in social networking platforms presents an opportunity for companies to monetize through advertising and in-app purchases.
3. Communication Services - The rise of standalone video chatting apps offers an opening for communication service providers to offer new experiences and premium services, such as high-quality video calls, with the opportunity to monetize through in-app purchases.
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