{"id":4222,"date":"2018-11-10T02:28:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T02:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/byte-vine-creator-to-launch-new-video-looping-app\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T02:28:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T02:28:52","slug":"byte-vine-creator-to-launch-new-video-looping-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/byte-vine-creator-to-launch-new-video-looping-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Byte: Vine creator to launch new video-looping app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A follow-up to Vine has been announced, two years after the six-second video app was shut down by Twitter.<\/p>\n

Byte will be a similar app to Vine, which helped launch the careers of stars including Shawn Mendes and Logan Paul.<\/p>\n

After Vine ended, those stars moved to its rivals Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.<\/p>\n

Dom Hofmann – who co-founded Vine along with Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll – said his new app would launch next spring.<\/p>\n

Looping six-second long videos is a pretty simple idea, but Vine was amazingly successful. <\/p>\n

Brothers Logan and Jake Paul, two of the highest-earning Youtubers,<\/a> started on Vine while they were still in high school.<\/p>\n

Singer Shawn Mendes was also discovered on the app aged 15 after his Vine of Justin Bieber’s song As Long As You Love Me went viral.<\/p>\n

It was also popular for pranksters – including Frenchman Jerome Jarre, who has since helped raise more than $2m for the Rohingya refugees<\/a> in Myanmar. <\/p>\n

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Byte creator Dom Hofmann has spoken about<\/a> creating a follow-up to Vine – nicknamed v2 – since 2017.<\/p>\n

Dom Hofmann’s Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll have had success with another app since Vine – quiz app HQ Trivia<\/a>, which launched last year.<\/p>\n

At its height, Vine was said to have 200 million users.<\/p>\n

Twitter reportedly bought it for $30m (\u00a323m) in 2012, before it had even officially launched, but it struggled to make money and keep up with its competitors. <\/p>\n

Although Vines were ended in 2016, the archive is still available online.<\/p>\n

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The most-looped video is a clip from the match between France and Germany in 2015 when an explosion was heard during the Paris attacks<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It has over 750m loops.<\/p>\n

But the content of most Vines weren’t so serious. <\/p>\n

Other popular ones include a boy’s emotional state rapidly changing and an Australian news reporter getting “attacked” by a rooster.<\/p>\n

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So did optical illusions and pranks.<\/p>\n

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And judging by the reaction to Byte’s first tweet, there’s definitely appetite out there for more videos like these. <\/p>\n

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