23 Facts About Viber Media

Viber Media's offices are located in London, Manila, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Viber Media was founded in 2010 to solve the problem of long-distance relationships.

Viber Media was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2010 by Marco and Magazinnik, who are friends from the Israel Defense Forces where they were chief information officers.

Viber Media was run from Israel, with much of its development outsourced to Belarus in order to lower labor costs.

Marco commented that Viber Media allows instant calling and synchronization with contacts because the ID is the user's cell number, unlike Skype which is modeled after a "buddy list" requiring registration and a password.

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Viber Media was originally funded by individual investors, described by Marco as "friends and family".

The sale of Viber Media earned the Shabtai family some $500 million from their 55.

In July 2017 the corporate name of Viber Media was changed to Rakuten Viber and a new wordmark logo was introduced.

On 4 November 2014, Viber Media scored 1 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Secure Messaging Scorecard".

Viber Media said that the encryption protocol had only been audited internally, and promised to commission external audits "in the coming weeks".

In May 2016, Viber Media published an overview of their encryption protocol, saying that it is a custom implementation that "uses the same concepts" as the Signal Protocol.

The Viber Media messenger is very popular in Greece, Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and some Asian markets.

Viber Media is particularly popular in Eastern Europe, being the most downloaded messaging app on Android in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine as of 2016.

Viber Media is one of the more popular messenger applications in Russia.

In January 2016, Viber Media surpassed WhatsApp in Russia, with about 50 million users.

Viber Media was growing especially rapidly in urban areas like Moscow and St Petersburg.

In May 2018 Nikolay Nikiforov of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media declined to comment on the effect that recently-passed law No 241-FZ would have on Viber.

Viber Media was initially launched for iPhone on 2 December 2010, in direct competition with Skype.

Viber Media was originally launched as a VoIP application for voice calling.

Viber Media Out became temporarily free in the Philippines to help Typhoon Haiyan victims connect with their loved ones.

Viber Media communities are protective of their users' privacy since neither superadmins nor admins can see members' phone numbers.

In October 2020, Viber Media launched message statistics to go along with Community insights.

In November 2018, Viber Media announced the launch of its message editing feature.