Launched in April 2020, the Clubhouse audio chat application was a resounding success at the start of the year, which also quickly ran out of steam, according to the number of downloads made in March.

The departure of some stars from this new social network could explain the decline in success.

Barely launched and already on the decline? The Clubhouse conversations app is losing steam. It is downloaded less and less, with just under 3 million downloads in March against 9.5 million in February, a decrease of 72%. This fall could be explained by the departure of some stars, who made the success of this social network of audio conversations launched in April 2020, but who also left it after having made it known, argues the American firm of Sensorpower studies, behind these figures. 

Based in San Francisco, Clubhouse was created by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth via the start-up Alpha Exploration. Taking advantage of the pandemic and appearances by celebrities like entrepreneur Elon Musk, she has brought long online conversations back into fashion, whether it's investor Q&A, chatting with friends, or chatting with friends. 'interviews with personalities. But Clubhouse now seems to be blaming it. "The elites have left the boat. Marc Andreessen [one of the pioneers in the development of the Internet,

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] does nothing more.

The appeal of Clubhouse was that you could listen to interesting conversations from interesting people.

So if the interesting people are gone, what's the point?

", asks on the CNBC channel Timothy Armoo, director of an American communication agency.

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A valuation of 4 billion dollars

For its part, Clubhouse announced on Sunday that it had carried out a new fundraising campaign. In particular, it should enable it to overcome technical difficulties, linked to too rapid expansion thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic and the isolation measures promulgated around the world. "We grew much faster than we expected as Clubhouse spread" around the world, the company says on its blog. The servers struggled at times, and the algorithms created at the beginning no longer cope, she explains. According to a source close to the company at AFP, this fundraiser values ​​the company at $ 4 billion.