The Meet Group Updates Flagship App with Industry-First Safety Practices
July 09 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
The Meet Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a leading provider of
interactive livestreaming solutions, today announced it has
launched a number of industry-first safety practices within the
newly released iOS and Android versions of its flagship app,
MeetMe.
“Today we unveiled a number of safety-related features on
MeetMe,” said CEO Geoff Cook, “including the most prominent Report
Abuse button we have seen in any major livestreaming app. When a
user taps this button, a screengrab will be sent to our 200+ person
moderation team for rapid review of both the screengrab and the
active livestream. The button will appear in every user stream,
making it even easier for users to alert our moderation team to
potentially problematic video content.
“We also added a clear, full-screen reminder of our strict
content standards that streamers must now acknowledge every time
before they stream. And to help ensure that all streamers
understand and accept our standards, we have enacted a waiting
period for new users before they can go live on MeetMe, during
which we encourage them to review our Content and Conduct
Policy.
“We are taking meaningful steps to further strengthen what we
believe are already industry-leading online safety standards for
our apps,” continued Cook. “We expect to add each of these features
to our other apps in the coming months, as we continue to lead in
livestreaming safety and moderation practices.”
Larry Magid, CEO of ConnectSafely, said, “We appreciate The Meet
Group's leadership on abuse-reporting practices. A commitment to
one-tap reporting of content, whether livestreams, photos, or
profiles makes sense for the whole industry."
About The Meet Group
The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) is a leading provider of
interactive livestreaming solutions designed to meet the universal
need for human connection. Our ecosystem of livestreaming apps
enables users around the world to interact through one-to-many
livestreaming broadcasts and text-based conversations. Our top
apps, MeetMe®, LOVOO®, Skout®, Tagged® and Growlr®, deliver live
interactions and meaningful connections to millions of users daily.
Headquartered in New Hope, PA, we have offices in Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin. The Meet Group is committed to
safety. You can find a description of current safety practices
here: https://www.themeetgroup.com/safety-practices/. For more
information visit themeetgroup.com, and follow us on Facebook,
Twitter or LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, including whether we will add these features to
our other apps later this quarter as anticipated and whether we
will continue to lead in livestreaming safety and moderation
practices. All statements other than statements of historical facts
contained herein are forward-looking statements. The words
“believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,”
“should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “project,”
“outlook,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they
relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our
current expectations and projections about future events and
financial trends that we believe may affect our financial
condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial
needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
from those in the forward-looking statements include the risk that
our applications will not function easily or otherwise as
anticipated, the risk that we will not launch additional features
and upgrades as anticipated, the risk that unanticipated events
affect the functionality of our applications with popular mobile
operating systems, any changes in such operating systems that
degrade our mobile applications’ functionality and other unexpected
issues which could adversely affect usage on mobile devices.
Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 filed with the SEC
on March 8, 2019. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein
speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events
that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time
to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We
undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future
developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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