Vyond

Vyond is a cloud-based, animated video creation platform owned by GoAnimate, Inc.. It is designed to allow business people with no knowledge in animation to "quickly", and "easily" create animated videos. These videos can be created in multiple styles, including 2D Animation, whiteboard animation and video infographics.

Vyond was founded by Alvin Hung, and the first version of Vyond went live in mid 2008. In May 2009, Domo Animate was launched. This program allowed users to create Vyond based on the Domo shorts. The site closed down on September 15, 2014, and later redirected to the Vyond for Schools website. In early 2011, Vyond 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.[citation needed] In late August 2011, Vyond for Schools was publicly launched. Vyond for Schools is a school-safe version of Vyond 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, Vyond launched the Business Friendly Theme, the first of the four Business Themes on the site. 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 Vyond.