GoAnimate
Logo used since late 2013
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| Founded | November 1, 2007 |
| Founder | Alvin Hung |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, CA, United States |
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| Services | Video production |
| Website | goanimate |
GoAnimate (formally known as Go!Animate until 2013) is a cloud-based, animated video creation platform. It is designed to allow business people with no background in animation to quickly and easily create animated videos. These videos can be created in multiple styles, including 2D animation, whiteboard animation (a.k.a. videoscribing or scribing) and video infographics.
GoAnimate was founded in 2007 by Alvin Hung, and the first version of GoAnimate went live in mid 2008.
In May 2009, DomoAnimate was launched. This program allowed users to create GoAnimations based on the Domo shorts. The site closed down on September 15, 2014, and later redirected to the GoAnimate for Schools website.
In early 2011, GoAnimate became a founding partner of YouTube Create – a suite of apps available to content creators within YouTube.
A U.S. office in San Francisco opened in June 2011.
In late August 2011, GoAnimate for Schools was publicly launched. GoAnimate for Schools is a school-safe version of GoAnimate featuring dedicated privacy, security, content moderation and group management features.
In late 2011, a custom set of “Election 2012” characters became popular.
On March 1, 2012, GoAnimate created the Business Friendly Theme, known as the first Business Theme in GoAnimate.
In April 2012, the first business-oriented subscription plans were publicly launched. These included 1080p download, logo removal & replacement, and new business-oriented visual themes. These plans led to increased popularity and exposure for GoAnimate.
By July 2013, over ten million videos had been created using the GoAnimate platform.
On September 16, 2013, GoAnimate changed its logo, being the removal of the exclamation mark. That same day, the site relaunched with a new user interface, plus the removal of GoBucks.
At the end of 2013, the “paper cutout” assets of explainer video pioneer Common Craft were integrated into GoAnimate as a new visual theme.
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