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2021: Launch of Golos voice social network in Russia

In early July 2021, it became known about the launch of the Golos voice social network in Russia. This is a project of Comedy Club co-founder Artashes Sargsyan and creator of the mobile developer iD EASTVitalia Dubinin.

The service allows you to create voice rooms, as well as listen to rooms of other people and produced broadcasts and battles. In the future, it is also expected to conduct closed paid broadcasts, sell tickets and connect a premium account, which includes the opportunity to participate in the user's online events. The Golos interface resembles the Clubhouse.

Co-founder of Comedy Club launched an analogue of Clubhouse in Russia - the Golos application

According to him, Forbes Sargsyan was engaged in the production of broadcasts, Dubinin - in the development and search for investors. The commercial director MegaFon of "," Vlad Wolfson the founder and general partner, the founder and Fort Ross Ventures Victor Orlovsky Qiwi "" and Evotor Andrey Romanenko more than 50 other business angels invested in Golos. In total, about $296 thousand was invested in the project.

According to Sargsyan, the idea of ​ ​ creating a competitor to Clubhouse arose amid the rapid growth and subsequent decline in the popularity of the service.

The Russian audience that went to Clubhouse wanted a media product with all the related elements: a Russian office, programming, clear and understandable forms of interaction between the content producer and the audience. And this was not all, "he explained to the publication, adding that it was decided to" do the same, my own, with working mechanics ": hard vertical programming of the airwaves and sales house.

As of July 2, 2021, the Golos application is available on the App Store. It is also located in the Google Play directory, but the download is closed, since the Android client of the service is at the stage of beta testing (technical shortcomings are eliminated).^[1][2]

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