What is a Chat API? Essential Features Your Team Should Know

The Communication-Platform-as-a-Service market saw explosive growth from $4.26 billion in 2019 to $5.9 billion in 2020. Experts predict it will reach over $17.71 billion by 2026. This remarkable expansion shows why development teams must understand Chat APIs. Chat APIs are cloud-hosted software components that add messaging features to applications. These powerful tools handle the basics […]

The 8 Most Reliable Website Chat APIs That Actually Work

Live chat stands as the gold standard for customer communication today. 73% of customers consider it their most satisfying way to connect with businesses. Response times tell the story – email takes 12 hours, social media needs 10 hours, but live chat delivers answers in just 60 seconds. Your business needs the right chat API […]

The 7 Most Reliable Agora Alternatives for 2026

Need an Agora alternative with better pricing and fewer limits? You’re not alone. Agora launched in 2013 and became one of the first companies to build a developer platform for broadcast, voice, and video calls through their SDK. Their network now powers over 60 billion minutes of real-time communication in more than 200 countries each […]

7 Proven Twilio Alternatives: Features & Pricing Guide

A surprising fact: employees dedicate 88% of their workweek to communication-related tasks. Your business communications might need a fresh look at Twilio alternatives if costs keep rising. Twilio has dominated the market as the go-to choice. The landscape has changed and more customizable options have become accessible to more people. Twilio’s pricing looks reasonable at […]

You Should Include Video Conferencing Software

By now, it’s become second nature to have a virtual meeting using video conferencing. The value of being able to jump online via any device has blown open the way to communicate to people close by and far away. When experts are predicting that by 2028 the video conferencing market will be worth just over […]

Guide To Choosing Live Streaming API

As a business owner, you know the benefits of meeting customers where they are. A customized and direct experience with your product, service or offering can be the difference between making a sale or leaving a sale. Especially when it comes to certain industries including retail, and gaming, live streaming API gives you the reins […]

How To Start a Podcast: Your Definitive 2021 Guide

As we know, podcasts are rapidly growing as a medium in recent years. In 2018 Apple and FastCompany stated that there were over 525,000 podcasts all over the world. Today? It’s over 2 million podcast shows with more than 48 million episodes in total, showing a very rapid growth in just three years. In today’s […]

John Warren with FreeConference.com

Our business here at iotum is technology for communication, and last Wednesday one of our favourite communicators passed away, John Warren. John was with FreeConference since its beginning at the turn of the millennium. iotum became steward of FreeConference.com a decade ago when we acquired the brand and added some fantastic new people to our […]