Some 30% of users don't use Discord primarily for gaming, as of 2019. It now has more than 100 million monthly active users and is taking off in countries where it already had a toehold, including Italy, France, Spain and the United States. The platform has flourished during the current pandemic, growing its monthly active users by 47% since February. The company has raised a total of $379.3 million. Now Discord is aiming to grow beyond its gamer base.ĭiscord announced its new funding on Tuesday in a blog post that disclosed Discord is rebranding itself beyond gaming. They can sit in a call and listen to music, mute themselves or "deafen" themselves - meaning they can't hear anyone else - if they want to appear online only to friends without speaking. If you ever talk to a gamer online, chances are you'll talk on the voice chat platform that just raised another $100 million in funding, led by Index Ventures and existing investors.ĭiscord was launched in 2015 in a beta testing phase and quickly attracted gamers who favored Discord's relative reliability, its anonymity and focus on voice over video unlike platforms like Skype.ĭiscord allows people to join a voice call at any time and type in various channels to communicate with other gamers. (CNN) - One of the fastest growing communications apps is Discord, known primarily within the gaming community.
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