VK Data Center
Everyone knows that the heart of VK is the Singer House on Nevsky Prospect. Now you will learn where the brain is located and how it works — that is, the ICVA data center.
The Architecture and Algorithms of Audio Indexing
We will tell about searching similar tracks among all audios at VK.
Football Feed for the Confederations Cup
Follow the 2017 Confederations Cup without having to leave VK. Enable a special news feed for one of the biggest football events of the year.
World Blood Donor Day
In coordination with the DonorSearch.org service, VK launches a special project for the World Blood Donor Day.
VK Masks
Masks in VK stories! It is a new way to amaze your friends with new effects and have fun. We launch an open platform that can be used by anyone who want to add their own mask.
Regular Payments in Applications on VK.com
Today VK launches a new payment tool in applications — regular payments, commonly known as a subscription.
Audios 2.0
Music is an essential part of the VK user experience. Today we are launching a completely updated service and beginning a new stage of its development.
Streaming from Your Computer
It is our pleasure to announce that now all users and communities can stream on VK using computers, laptops and other special equipment.
Money Transfers to Communities
VK launches a new way for communities to raise funds.
Post View Counter
Today we introduce a new parameter: the view counter that helps track the interest a post generates as quickly as possible. This counter is conspicuously placed under each post and it shows how many users viewed this post.
Microsoft Office Document Viewer
Sending documents over VK has become more convenient as you can now view a wider variety of Microsoft Office formats: text documents in DOC or DOCX, tables in XLS or XLSX and presentations in PPT and PPTX.
Updated vk.cc
We have fantastic news for those who work with posts, dealing with advertising metrics or simply hate really long links.<br><br>We have overhauled vk.cc, our service for shortening links. Now it can track statistics regarding redirects and send information through the API.
VK Masks Contest
VK launches a virtual mask creation contest for illustrators, animators and 3D artists.
VK Charity
During the last several years, VK has made many contributions to charity. In 2010, the "Donate" button, as well as the ability to give charitable gifts, appeared in groups. We have completed several interesting side projects with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Downside Up fund, and regularly support charity organizations that come to us for help.
Ads Are Back
In September 2011, the small VK Team closed the Ads section to focus on project issues with highest priority at that time. But the need for such services hasn't disappeared and our users had to place ads and search for products on other websites. It's time to fix it.
VK Stories
Today we present Stories, a new way of sharing photos and short videos on VK with your friends without publishing them on your page. Shoot photos and videos throughout the day and they’ll be visible to your friends and followers for 24 hours after publishing in the block above the News Feed.
VK Launches Geo Advertising
When choosing from among the many shops, beauty salons or service stations, people select those located within easy reach at places they frequently visit. Consequently, it's simpler to attract potential clients who live or work nearby as these people can quickly find the shop and become regular customers. As of today, it is possible to place geotargeted advertisements in business centers, shopping malls, the metro or train stations.
Introducing VK Live — New App for Streaming
This year we have seen VK live streams of world-known celebrities, sportsmen, politicians, businessmen, TV channels and radio stations. And in September, we also launched a beta test for the website's game streaming platform on the website.
VK Messenger for Windows and macOS
How many times have you been unable to complete a project because you were looking at new photos of friends, arguing about hot topics in comments or simply proved powerless to ignore interesting updates in your news feed?
VK Chooses the Best Support Services
Thanks to the Support team five years ago, VK changed the way of communicating with users. Last year, the possibility for companies to organize their own VK support services materialized with the help of community messages. Consequently nowadays, 100,000 companies communicate with their clients using this service.