PubNub 

Revolutionize Online Experiences

PubNub delivers real-time solutions that maximize user engagement, retention, and loyalty
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Welcome GDC Attendees!

Are you curious about how PubNub works?

PubNub provides the building blocks that enable developers to quickly and efficiently build, manage, and optimize real-time applications.

PubNub Platform Features

  • In-App Messaging: Chat with users in lobbies or when active in the app. Send private messages to users or to your friend group. Filter profanity and translate messages before reaching other players.

  • Functions: Run your code within our network or leverage existing integrations to transform, re-route, augment, filter, aggregate messages, run code triggered by user presence events, and much more.

  • Presence: Track and alert online/offline events for users and devices, as well as track accurate occupancy counts across channels with millions of connected devices.

  • Mobile Push Notifications: Automatically fall back from in-app messaging to APNS and FCM-delivered messages (iOS and Android devices) when users aren’t online.

  • Events & Actions: Filter and queue events across your application and trigger actions from a growing catalog that allow you to easily export and integrate into a variety of 3rd party (and custom) API endpoints.

  • App Context: Store app data and relationships and access easy-to-use, serverless storage for user data, channel data, and channel members without the need to use external infrastructure.

PubNub Illuminate

  • Monetization: Run targeted monetization experiments in channels and see immediate results

  • Instant Adjustments: Trigger actions based on user or cohort behaviors, and see instant outcomes, without the help of the dev team.

  • Analyzation: See the impact of your actions in real-time with live charts and graphs.

  • Fraud Detection: Increase fraud detection to identify and act upon suspicious behavior in real-time.

Looking to learn more about our new product Illuminate?

More resources for you

Delivering a true real-time digital experience is a must-have for modern app users but it can be challenging for organizations to avoid common pitfalls when building these types of event-driven systems. Download the white paper to learn more.


PubNub Illuminate helps you create more app engagement and faster growth, with minimal demand on your engineering team. Learn more in our Illuminate one-pager.

Explore how to easily use PubNub to build, manage, and optimize real-time games with our How-To's for Gaming.

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Looking to check out PubNub's real-time features for yourself?