TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse, the once-popular social audio app, is making an attempt at a comeback with its new feature called "Chats." These chats are asynchronous group conversations that allow users to send voice messages appearing like Instagram Stories entries. While live audio rooms will still be available, Clubhouse hopes that chats will encourage users to engage more frequently with friends, potentially revitalizing its user base after facing recent challenges.
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Clubhouse Introduces 'Chats' in Bid for a Comeback
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Clubhouse Cuts More Than Half of Staff
TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse, the social audio app, has laid off more than half of its staff in response to changes in customer habits and the complexities of remote work. The company will provide those impacted with severance and continued healthcare coverage for several months. The company, which was valued at $4B by investors, has a clear vision for "Clubhouse 2.0," and the smaller team will focus on building it.
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Clubhouse Begins Beta Testing Private Communities Called 'Houses'
TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse is looking to shake up its platform with the launch of private communities called "Houses." The company's new offering allows any person or group to create their own curated "House" within Clubhouse. Users can sign up to create Houses, but Clubhouse says it will approve new Houses slowly to learn from feedback and tweak the product accordingly.
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Clubhouse Tests Private Groups, Part of a Bid to Regain Relevance
BLOOMBERG - Clubhouse is experimenting with a new feature that lets users join private groups. The feature, known internally as Social Clubs or Houses, would let anyone in a group join the conversation. With Houses, Clubhouse appears to be encouraging friendlier social interaction within private groups of users. Instead of only live, ephemeral audio rooms, members of a House can post in a written group chat, where messages stay visible for a week before disappearing.
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Clubhouse's International Head Aarthi Ramamurthy Departs From the Company
ECONOMIC TIMES - Aarthi Ramamurthy, the international head of the audio-based social network, Clubhouse, has stepped down after over a year of joining the company. Ramamurthy’s previous stints include Meta, Netflix, and Microsoft. She had also founded a YC-backed photography gear rental startup, Lumoid.
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Clubhouse Starts Rolling out Dark Mode on iOS and Android
TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse is rolling out a new dark mode setting on its iOS and Android apps. Instead of a featuring a completely black interface, the dark mode has a "velvety dark background" with light text. The company says the update may take a couple of days to roll out to all Clubhouse users.
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Clubhouse Adds New 'Protected Profile' Setting Option for All Users
TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse is launching a protected profile setting to allow users only to make their full profile available to people they approve as followers. The change is being implemented in response to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine to keep users protected on the platform. Clubhouse notes that only followers will be able to see the rooms, clubs, and replays on your profile. The setting also makes users less visible on Clubhouse in general.
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Clubhouse Adds Text-based Chat Rooms for the Mic Shy
TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse announced in-room chat, adding a text chat feature into its voice rooms akin to what people see on YouTube or Twitch. In-room chat is an optional feature, so anyone running a conversation on Clubhouse can toggle the option when they kick off a room.
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Clubhouse Improves Its Web Version With a Brand New Feature
DIGITAL INFORMATION WORLD - Clubhouse has improved its web with a feature that makes them unique from all other competitors. Clubhouse web's version does not require any ID/registration, and anyone can listen to the conversation without logging in. The platform is also rolling out a new sharing option in which users can share a Chat Room on other social media platforms with other users. However, this feature update is only for listening.
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Clubhouse Rolls out Topics Feature, Adds Support for 13 New Languages
TIMES OF INDIA - Clubhouse is adding 13 languages which include Arabic, Bengali, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Farsi / Persian, Hausa, Igbo, Marathi, Nepali, Somali, Thai, Turkish and Yoruba. As of now, the new languages are only available on Android devices.
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Clubhouse Finally Has Live Captions on iOS
TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse announced that closed captioning is now rolling out for iOS. "We currently support 13 languages for captions, with more on the way. These 13 languages include English, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Yue Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Turkish," a Clubhouse representative said.
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Clubhouse Launches Replay to Let Users Record and Share Live Rooms
TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse is pushing 'Replay,' a new feature live on iOS and Android apps that will let creators record an audio room so that anyone who misses the action live can check it out later.
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Clubhouse Adds Support for 13 New Languages
TIMES OF INDIA - Clubhouse supports 13 new languages, including French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Tamil, and Telugu. The company further added that it would soon add support for iOS and additional languages.
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Clubhouse Is Working on Localisation of Its App in India
ECONOMIC TIMES - Clubhouse will soon roll out local language on its app in India. The move comes at a time when the audio-based live social networking space is heating up with increased competition.
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Clubhouse Gives Musicians a New High-quality Audio Mode
TECH CRUNCH - Clubhouse added a new "music mode", doubling down on its commitment to centering social audio in all its permutations. The new music mode will give musicians who play live on the social network their own special set of tools to optimize sound quality and will hit iOS first before rolling out to Android.
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