THE HANS INDIA - Chingari, powered by $GARI- India's fastest-growing short-video app, has expanded its reach to Tollywood music by announcing a music licensing deal with Aditya Music, the most successful and renowned music label in the Tollywood industry. Through this collaboration, Chingari users and creators will have access to the biggest range of Tollywood music on the app, enabling them to make more entertaining content and get a chance to acquire more $GARI tokens. Aditya Music will also ensure that its latest hit numbers are made available on Chingari.
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Chingari Powered by Gari Collaborates With Aditya Music
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Chingari Integrates Native Token to Advance Web3 Social Networking
COIN TELEGRAPH - Indian social networking platform Chingari has announced ambitions to revolutionize the experience of its 100M-user creator economy by integrating its native digital asset, GARI, and accompanying cryptocurrency wallet via the Solana blockchain. Chingari successfully deployed a beta testnet of the GARI token in preparation for its mainnet release.
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Chingari Is India's Fastest-Growing Social Platform
ECONOTIMES - With an active user base of over 35M, ~70M account sign-ups, and being named the Top Social Networking App in India by the Government of India, 3-years-old Chingari has quickly become India's fastest-growing social platform. But, more than just social media, Chingari offers users an entire ecosystem that they can take advantage of such as $GARI, its cryptocurrency integration.
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Video-Sharing App Chingari Set to Launch IDO on SolRazr
INVESTING CUBE - Top Indian video-sharing app Chingari will launch its cryptocurrency token $GARI on the Solana SolRazr launchpad via an IDO on Dec 15 -18. The $GARI token has its use within the Chingari ecosystem. Content creators, fans, and members will use $GARI for several activities.
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Chingari Unveiled $GARI Crypto Token and NFT Marketplace
EXCHANGE4MEDIA - Short video app Chingari has unveiled its first-ever crypto token $GARI at a public event. It will become the first social network in India to issue crypto tokens. The platform is launching its own NFT marketplace. Bollywood megastar Khan will be the brand ambassador of the NFT marketplace and the $GARI Token reward programme. Chingari had recently raised $19M funding from ~30 venture funds and individual investors.
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Chingari Founders' Clubhouse Alternative Crack the Indian Audio Market?
INC42 - May 6 - Sumit Ghosh and Aditya Kothari, founders of the Indian social media platform Chingari, announced entry in the audio-only social media segment with a new app - Fireside. Available on iOS and Android, the app has been launched as a separate business entity from Chingari and will be closing a funding round soon, said Sumit Ghosh, cofounder, Fireside, and Chingari. In terms of its interface, Fireside has a passing similarity with Clubhouse.
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Chingari Partners With BandEdge to Promote Budding Talents
INDIA EDUCATION DIARY - Mar 9 - Chingari, India's number one 'Made-In-India' short video social app, announces its partnership with BandEdge, renowned music and talent agency, to promote budding talents like singers, backstage musical bands, upcoming stars, lesser-known and talented singers, dancers. The partnership of their respective domains comes with a massive content boost of BandEdge including all artists - exclusive and non-exclusive. Its partnership will give an opportunity to talents who are vying to reach more and more audiences. Available in multiple languages, BandEdge artists, budding talents, and next-generation celebrities will reach a much wider audience through the Chingari app. Moreover, this partnership also plans to run a contest as well to promote new talents, budding talents, lesser famous talent, and the likes.
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Indian App Chingari Plans to Hire Fired TikTok Employees
BUSINESS TODAY - Jan 28 - As TikTok hands over pink slips to ~1k employees following the permanent ban by the government of India, Indian app developer Chingari plans to hire some of the fired employees. Chingari will be looking forward to hiring people across domains, however, the company hasn't shared any information on the number of employees it plans to hire. Similar to TikTok, Chingari is an Indian video-sharing social networking platform where users could record and share short video clips. The app is available in multiple Indian languages including Hindi, Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu.
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Q India Rapidly Expands Mobile Viewership on Chingari
NEWSWIRE CA - Jan 15 - Q India, the company's Hindi language youth-oriented channel available in and on ~650M homes and devices in India, has reported surging mobile viewership growth from a partnership formed with the new fast-growing app Chingari. The Chingari app was initially launched in 2018, with @theqofficial channel going live in Q4 2020. Chingari saw its user base explode exponentially when TikTok became banned in India in June 2020. The Chingari app is now available to ~45M users in India. The Q India launched on the Chingari app offering clips and short-form versions of programming from the channel. The app has established a remarkable daily average viewer engagement time of 59 mins and has ~100M videos viewed on the platform daily.
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Chingari Users Now Have Access to hoichoi's Content
HINDUSTAN TIMES - Nov 27 - Chingari, an original Indian short video app, announced a partnership with hoichoi, an OTT platform. Through this partnership, Chingari users will have access to hoichoi's content such as short video clips, dialogues and snippets from their most popular and upcoming shows. The announcement comes after Chingari revealed it had recorded highest engagement time - more than 51 mins per day. Chingari has so far raised $4.5M in 2 rounds.
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Chingari Crosses 30 Million Downloads, Launches New AR Filters
HINDUSTAN TIMES - Sep 22 - Chingari says it has now ~30M organic users. The app reached the milestone in three months of its launch. The company has also launched new AR filters for creators and users. Chingari had grown in popularity in India following the ban on TikTok. The app had gained ~3.5M downloads in just 24 hours of the ban on TikTok. Apart from Chingari, many new home-grown social networking platforms such as Riposo, Rizzle, Moj, and Trell have emerged.
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Indian Alternatives to TikTok
YOURSTORY.COM - Sep 5 - The Indian government's ban on a slew of Chinese apps, including TikTok, further opened up the market for many Indian social media platforms. Within 24 hours of TikTok's ban, Chingari recorded 26M video views, with 3M videos swiped per hour and 10K users per minute. Chingari pays its users based on the virality of the video. Apps like Roposo, Bolo Indya, Aii.Social and Fun2 also gained prominence.
by Trisha Medhi
See full article at YourStory.com
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Tinder's CPO Brian Norgard, OLX Founder Fabrice Grinda Invest in India's Chingari
DECCAN HERALD - Aug 19 - Indian social app Chingari, a short video sharing platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Brian Norgard, the Chief Product Officer of Tinder, and leading French entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda, Founder of OLX. Norgard has earlier invested in startups like SpaceX, Lyft, and NotionHQ. Grinda has more than 200 investments in several big firms including Alibaba Group, Airbnb, Beepi, FanDuel, Palantir, and Windeln, it said.
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Chingari, Indian "TikTok", Raises $1.3M
FORBES INDIA - Aug 11 - Indian TikTok rival Chingari has secured $1.3M in seed round funding. After the ban on Chinese apps including TIkTok on June 29, homegrown Indian apps such as Mitron and Chingari had seen a surge in demand. Chingari garnered ~2.5M downloads witnessing a 400% growth in the days after the ban. The app claims a 25M user base and ~3M active daily users.
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