Reddit he said the acquisition of Dubsmash in a move that underlines its interest companys for the video-sharing market.
Reddit announced on Sunday that Dubsmash would fill a gap for video creators and users under-represented on the company's platform, in line with Reddit's motto of wanting a "world-owned" community.
Dubsmash was founded in 2014, and is based in New York. It is a small company co-founded by Suchit Dash, Jonas Drüppel and Tim Specht. It has Android and iOS apps for users who want to add themselves to a movie, a piece of music.
Dubsmash has raised $ 20,2 million from investors in the past. Financial terms of the purchase by Reddit were not disclosed.
TikTok is a company that offers exactly the same services as Dubsmash. The Chinese platform, owned by ByteDance, has enjoyed great success in recent years, particularly with younger generations – but concerns about its “national security” governmentof USA forced ByteDance to begin the process of selling their of its American companies in Oracle and Walmart.
Nevertheless, Dubsmash is one of the few applications on the market that is considered an equal competitor to TikTok. The company claims that its applications now have 350 million installations, with over six billion videos created by users.
TikTok has approximately 50 million daily active users in the United States. Reddit, on the other hand, has 52 million daily active users. So with the addition of Dubsmash we could expect a lot of competition with TikTok.
