Clubhouse Has Peaked: Android Signups Plummet 86% Since Last Year | Chart – The Wrap

The social audio app has faced constraints and drastic decline since getting a pandemic boost in 2020Clubhouse, the social-audio app that became a pandemic era phenomenon, is seeing signups drop off drastically since its peak levels two years ago. Since the release of Clubhouse’s Android app last summer, the social audio platform’s monthly downloads have fallen by a staggering 86% and are now averaging about 2.8 million downloads globally, according to Similarweb’s analysis provided to TheWrap. After seeing a surge in adoption during the early pandemic months of 2020, the platform has faced several constraints as it tried to expand amid increasing competition. “It was this new and imaginative concept of live audio chatrooms and the lure of invite-only made it more alluring,” Sneha Pandey, insights manager of Similarweb, told TheWrap. “Invites were so rare that some people even sold them on eBay. It really was boosted by the pandemic and the need for social and virtual interaction.” Clubhouse has not supplied user data, but available on chatroom attendance suggest the limits of the platform. While the company touted chats with big names like Elon Musk and Tiffany Haddish, only about 15,000 to 18,000 users tuned in for those sessions.…
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