Cisco channels Snapchat for video app in bid to 'compress time'

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The last year and a half has been filled with video chats, video chats, and more video chats. But while nearly every desk worker will tell you they’ve lived inside Zoom all this time, another type of video collaboration has been sneaking up in the background: asynchronous video. Asynchronous video refers to video collaboration that doesn’t happen in real time —– rather, you send a video message to a colleague to explain something too nuanced for email, and they can respond at their leisure. Since this method wasn’t the subject of memes or an endless barrage of think pieces, it was easy to miss if not already using it yourself. But companies have been boosting their asynchronous video offerings and experiencing more interest than ever before. Asana, for example, added asynchronous video to its platform, and Supernormal launched to combine the video method with AI. Loom, which has long been in the space, released a software developer kit (SDK) to allow any business to add a Loom-powered video record button to its own applications. The company also said its daily active users (DAUs) increased ninefold and revenue rose…
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