LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The party experts
at Evite today announced the latest evolution in their leading
digital invitation experience. Every Evite invitation now includes
a free Private Sharing Feed that enables users to share photos,
memories and conversations before, during and after the event.
Launched just in time for the holiday party rush, the new
socially-enhanced features give party planners and guests an
entirely new way to use Evite, facilitating both in-person and
digital interactions with friends and family. The Private Sharing
Feed encourages dialogue and group photo sharing among attendees,
enabling them to capture those memories within the invitation
itself and to relive them later on.
The benefits of Evite's new Private Sharing Feed include:
Privacy: Only people who have been invited to an event
can interact with the Private Sharing Feed. The photos, comments,
and dialogue are not broadcast out to broader social networks.
Ease-of-Use: People can interact with the Private Sharing
Feed on any device via Evite's Android app, iOS app, or any major
desktop or mobile browser.
Instant Connection: There are few, if any, common social
networks to which all party planners and guests mutually subscribe.
With Evite, everyone is instantly connected as a group via the
invitation guest list.
Capture All the Lost Moments: Finally, there is an easy
way to instantly pool all of the different photos that were taken
by different people at a party or event—photos that until now would
stay siloed on people's individual phones.
Relive the Memories Forever: Attendees can easily come
back and relive the event again and again, from any device.
"We wanted to create a different kind of social experience to
capture the moments and memories of the most important events of
our lives in a very real and un-curated way," said Victor Cho, Chief Executive Officer of Evite.
"In contrast to the highly curated, mass broadcasting nature of
most social media sites, Evite offers a more private environment to
share photos and memories of an event exclusively among attendees.
It's a completely different kind of motivation for sharing—to make
a shared moment even more memorable for those who participated
versus to showcase one's life to the rest of the world."
The results of Evite's pilot launch of the new Private Sharing
Feed have been impressive. After just a couple months of
beta-testing, Evite has seen a 6,000% increase in photo uploads.
Moreover, 60% of Evite events are now generating some kind of
private sharing behavior. Whereas before people would just respond
to RSVP comments, Evite is now seeing a five-fold increase in
social engagements per event.
"We've been happy to see that people are using the new features
exactly as we intended – before, during, after the party for
conversation, photo sharing, logistics, and more," continued Cho.
"Providing more social functionality is a natural evolution for
Evite's industry-leading invitation service, and we are constantly
working on additional features to further enhance our user
experience. In just the last year we have added free thank-you
notes, instant gifting, one-click donations and fundraising, and
much more. And we are still in the early stages of realizing our
broader vision: to help bring people together face-to-face and to
make that experience effortless and even more memorable."
About Evite
Evite (www.evite.com) is the leading
digital service for bringing people together. With a wide array of
free, easy-to-use invitation designs and inspirational
party-planning tools, the company has sent over 2 billion event
invitations in its history, enabling approximately 3 billion unique
face-to-face connections. Evite makes getting together effortless
and more memorable for its 100+ million annual users, sending
20,000 invitations every hour and handling hundreds of millions of
RSVPs every year. Launched in 1998, Evite is headquartered in
Los Angeles and is a subsidiary of
Liberty Interactive Corporation, attributed to the Liberty Ventures
Group (NASDAQ: LVNTA, LVNTB).
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