On VK, history comes to life thanks to the educational communities, which introduces its followers to major historic events. But just imagine what life would be like if Nikolay II and Vladimir Lenin have their own social network profiles?
On November 26th and 27th, the VK team will host a 24-hour hackathon in St. Petersburg using open data provided by features of VK API and partner companies.
Over the past few years, VK communities transformed from groups based on shared interests to a convenient tool for media, business and arranging events. It's now time to make life even more convenient.
VK's video player is one of the most popular social network services. Users download 1.4 million videos each day — a figure that has doubled over the past six months and shows no signs of stopping. People are now even more likely to create their own video stories, capture major events, share their emotions and keep track of others.
It has been an unbelievable experience creating the most popular social network in Russia and other CIS countries. Not only the Internet but also millions of people were changed by the emergence of VK in 2006. Over the past ten years, an entire generation has grown up on VK and now they can't live without it, and we are truly pleased to be a part of this massive phenomenon.
For ten years, VK has been a hotbed for continuous evolution and development as it strives to provide users with the best services for communication. We believe it is only through communication and interaction that people can create or share new ideas, inventions and discoveries.
Not long ago, VK's Support Team celebrated its fifth birthday. In honor of this important date, the agents decided to emerge from the darkness and talk about themselves and their work.
Today we are setting up testing for our new game streaming service, which allows fans of video games and cybersports to stream the gaming process while on social media and earn money doing it.
Today we have set up a cashless money transfer service between users. You can now attach and send money in VK messages using your payment card. This service works in website conversations and mobile apps for Android and Windows Phone. Money transfers sending will became available for iPhone users with the next update, but now they can already receive money.
As of today, leaving voice messages in private conversations is now possible! This new way of communicating is useful for those who prefer live conversation, who wish to save time exchanging messages or who have no possibility of writing out a message.
On this special holiday dedicated to professionals, the VK team congratulates software testers and announces a series of testing competitions – The VK Testing Challenge!
VK is proud to introduce users and companies to our newest "Community Messages" widget, which helps users and companies communicate while on external websites. It has been recently developed at the internal Hackathon in 24 hours.
Today is the beginning of a new era in VK as we have completed a major system update for all users.
In 2007, VK introduced the feature Graffiti, which allowed people to visit each other’s pages and leave drawings on their walls. The time has come to adapt this legendary feature for the modern age. Now people can send graffiti in private messages.
VK communications has reached a new level! We have renewed the photo editor by adding several extra features.
Not long ago, we wrote about how the Smart Feed is now on all VK platforms. Already more than half of users have switched on this new feature.
Today we have updated the advertising tool "Retargeting" for users of the new version of our site. Now you no longer need to embed numerous pixels on the pages of your website. Instead, you only have to embed a single retargeting pixel on all pages. With the help of customizable settings, you will be able to attract the audience you need.
Introducing vk.me, a new tool that creates short, direct web links which grant quicker messaging service. It’s now much easier to communicate with users or ask companies questions since you can reach certain conversations, which can also be shared with others.
Today the Smart Feed is available for all VK platforms, including iOS and Android apps, and it can be enabled whenever you choose.
And finally for today, the last of our updates for iOS and the new design, we’ve launched a new feature – sticker suggestions!