Follower notifications

Let’s talk about the notifications system.

Best Coubs 2016

Webcam Coubs

Want to make a coub but don’t have any video to use? Use yourself.

Default Avatars

If a user doesn’t add their own avatar, sites often provide a default, so that there’s at least something to see. For a long time…

Hot, Rising, Explore, Editors’ Choice

Late last year we changed the Hot section, and it caused something of a scandal — “bring back…

Bookmarks

There’s a new button on the Coub player for bookmarks. On any coub, you can click this button to send it to your “bookmarks”. This works on…

1 Billion Views Monthly

This October we reached one billion coub views per month. Most of our views used to come from coubs embedded on other…

Unexpected Lebowski

Thanks to a meme involving a mug and The Big Lebowski, it’s likely that coubers have mined nearly every movie in which a mug is thrown (or indeed kicked). Unfortunately, at the time, no-one thought of using a specific hashtag, so there isn’t a place where all the coubs can be seen together…