
Viber is carrying out the free trial to reduce user calling costs and to give users in Japan the chance to try Viber Out's high quality calling experience.ġ Viber Out is a service that allows Viber users to call mobile phones and landline at low rates. Users can call as many times as they want and there are no restrictions on the number of calls per day.
Each call is limited to a maximum of 10 minutes.
This free trial allows all Viber users in Japan to make free calls from their Viber application to any mobile and landline phone number in Japan 3, in addition to the free calls that are offered between Viber users.Īny Viber user in Japan with a Japanese phone number is applicable for this free trial. To activate these new services, simply login to your AddThis dashboard and make sure that you update the supporting tools to also show these in your share options.TOKYO – Aug– Viber Media Ltd., part of the Rakuten Group and provider of the Viber mobile messaging application, today announced the launch of a free trial of its Viber Out 1 calling service in Japan 2.
EdCast is a “personal learning network to enhance human ability to collaborate and learn across educational materials, instructors, students and employers.”. Yummly is a popular recipe recommendation website where users can share their favorite dishes that they’ve created or have chosen at a restaurant. In addition to the two messaging apps, we added Yummly and EdCast. According to Pew Research Center, 36% of smartphone owners use messaging apps and 49% of smartphone users between the ages of 18-29 use messaging apps. It’s hard to deny the popularity of messaging apps on mobile phones today and the effect they’re having on traffic to websites. According to Business Insider, Kik users spend 97 minutes per week in the app. They have more than 240 million registered users. Kik is a mobile messaging app that’s very popular with teens. They have more than 606 million people on the platform. Viber is a mobile messaging app that’s very popular globally. Here’s a little about each of the services that we added: This makes it even more convenient for them to share your content to the places they love. This means that whenever your visitors see our share buttons on your website, they can click on the AddThis logo (the orange box with the white plus sign) and search for these different options.ĭepending on which share buttons you have active, your visitors will start seeing these services as their personal default options once they’ve chosen them often enough. As we continue to expand our supported services, we’re excited to announce that now you can share to Viber, Kik, Yummly and EdCast with AddThis Share Buttons.