(Deepshikha Gautam, Intern Journalist) New Delhi: A few months ago, the Chinese app TikTok was banned in India, after which many short video-making apps came into the Indian market. One of these apps is Roposo. Like TikTok, it gives people a platform to share short videos. Short video sharing app Roposo has announced that it has become the first Indian app to cross the 100 million mark on the Google Play store.
Roposo’s proprietary company Glance said it was a pleasure for them to do so. Glance reached 100 million in May 2020 itself. The company said Glance now has two of the country’s largest content platforms, Roposo and Glance, which are Made in India and collectively reach 40% of India’s smartphone users. The founder and CEO of the company said, “We are proud to be the first Indian short video app to cross 100 million users. This shows the overwhelming love of Indian users for Roposo and towards content creators. With Glance and Roposo we have the largest #MadeInIndia platforms that collectively reach 40% of India’s smartphone users. We hope to build on this success and help establish India as a major digital hub with the US and China. ” Roposo is a short video making app available in 12 languages. It gets 2 billion views every day.
A few months ago, the Chinese app Tiktok was banned in India, after which many Indian apps also came on the market. The company says that within two days of Tiktok being banned, the company had added 2.2 million customers.