{"id":798829,"date":"2021-08-04T09:44:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/08\/04\/bytedance-rival-kuaishou-to-shut-down-video-app-zynn\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:44:35","slug":"bytedance-rival-kuaishou-to-shut-down-video-app-zynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/08\/04\/bytedance-rival-kuaishou-to-shut-down-video-app-zynn\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance rival Kuaishou to shut down video app Zynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance rival Kuaishou Technology said on Wednesday it would stop services of its short video app Zynn, operated in the United States, on Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s other products for markets outside China will not be affected, Kuaishou said in a statement. &#8220;Our strategy for the international markets remains unchanged,&#8221; it said\uff0cwithout providing a reason for Zynn&#8217;s shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Zynn, for markets outside China, Kuaishou operates Kwai, which is mainly popular in South America, and Snack Video.<\/p>\n<p>A reward system that offers users cash or gifts for signing up and referring friends helped Zynn to top U.S. app download charts last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Tencent-backed short video apps developer also operates the Kuaishou app and competes with ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin for the Chinese market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance rival Kuaishou Technology said on Wednesday it would stop services of its short video app Zynn, operated in the United States, on Aug. 20. The company&#8217;s other products for markets outside China will not be affected, Kuaishou said in a statement. &#8220;Our strategy for the international markets remains unchanged,&#8221; it said\uff0cwithout providing a reason for Zynn&#8217;s shutdown. Apart from Zynn, for markets outside China, Kuaishou operates Kwai, which is mainly popular in South America, and Snack Video. A reward system that offers users cash or gifts for signing up and referring friends helped Zynn to top U.S. app download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}