{"id":12135,"date":"2023-01-18T17:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/2022-year-in-review-letter-from-our-ceo\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T03:49:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T03:49:14","slug":"2022-year-in-review-letter-from-our-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/2022-year-in-review-letter-from-our-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Yr In Overview &#8211; Letter from our CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2022 was an awesome 12 months for Roblox. We&#8217;re optimistically driving our imaginative and prescient to reimagine the way in which folks come collectively, and we\u2019re realizing it by enabling deeper types of expression, communication, and immersion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investments we&#8217;re making to increase the engagement of Roblox throughout geographies and age teams are paying off. Our <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">neighborhood grew by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">23%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this 12 months to greater than 56<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">million day by day international customers. And our customers spent over 49.3 billion hours coming collectively to create, play, discover, study, and join. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At present, greater than half of the folks on Roblox are 13 and older, demonstrating our platform\u2019s attraction to a broad vary of audiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovation and enhancements throughout each side of Roblox performed a key function in driving our development. Listed below are a few of our main accomplishments from 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Enabling Self-Expression and Connection<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the launch of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Layered Clothes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we continued to empower folks to specific themselves and their identification creatively. This characteristic allows clothes and niknaks to suit any avatar physique sort. Objects like shirts, clothes, sweaters, jackets, and pants are actually worn in layers and duplicate the way in which attire suits and drapes on people in the true world. This offers our neighborhood with the facility to create never-before-seen clothes and accent sorts. Customers can combine and match an unbelievable vary of physique types and outfits, taking avatar customization potentialities to the following degree. Since launch, we now have seen over 115 million folks personal a layered clothes merchandise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43203\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Layered-Clothing.png\" alt=\"Avatars wearing layered clothing\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Layered-Clothing.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Layered-Clothing-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Layered-Clothing-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We additionally continued to increase the standard and immersion of social interactions on Roblox. Now, folks verified as ages 13 and older can use Chat with their voice to talk aloud with each other.\u00a0 This performance is constructed to imitate in-person conversations, and relies on avatars\u2019 proximity to one another \u2013 that means you may whisper to a good friend close by or elevate your voice to hold throughout the room. Nearly 1,000,000 Roblox experiences have already enabled voice communications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the finish of the 12 months, we rolled out <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact Importer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a secure and safe manner for folks to seek out and join with real-life mates. Contact Importer makes use of the identical contact names saved on a consumer\u2019s gadget, to allow them to rapidly acknowledge their mates on the Roblox platform. We additionally launched Good friend Suggestions, so folks ages 13 and older can simply evaluation and add mates instantly. These two options are necessary steps in making it simpler for folks to attach whereas persevering with to uphold the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">privateness<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">security<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of our neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42698\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CI-Flow-1-1.png\" alt=\"Contact Importer Flow\" width=\"2491\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CI-Flow-1-1.png 2491w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CI-Flow-1-1-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CI-Flow-1-1-1024x531.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CI-Flow-1-1-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CI-Flow-1-1-1536x796.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CI-Flow-1-1-2048x1061.png 2048w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CI-Flow-1-1-1920x995.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2491px) 100vw, 2491px\"\/><\/p>\n<h2><b>Increasing Creator Alternatives<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Different necessary improvements had been centered on accelerating our imaginative and prescient of creating creation accessible to everybody on Roblox. We\u2019re constructing instruments so anybody from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new creators to massive growth <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">studios can carry their creations to fruition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022, our neighborhood visited greater than 15 million experiences on the platform, and builders and creators revealed greater than 15,000 experiences each single day. To assist this creation flywheel, we made developments to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roblox Studio<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, our free growth software program for constructing and publishing 3D content material. Roblox Studio now has a refreshed look and new options \u2014 like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assist for high-resolution shows and redesigned icons for higher navigation \u2014 that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">permit creators to customise their workspaces and collaborate with teammates seamlessly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43214\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/StudioRefresh1-1.gif\" alt=\"Gif of Roblox's Studio Refresh\" width=\"1606\" height=\"1073\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July 2022, we rolled out quite a lot of developments to our <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">materials system<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to boost the visible high quality of the complete library of present supplies and make them feel and look much more sensible than earlier than. Supplies on Roblox are akin to supplies in the true world. They\u2019re used to not solely outline the floor look of a 3D object but additionally its bodily properties, which in flip influences how the article behaves. Our materials system will assist our creators extra simply understand their aesthetic imaginative and prescient.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve additionally added a number of new options to Roblox Cloud, our developer ecosystem, to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">streamline expertise growth and improve productiveness<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Builders can now entry all their Roblox sources through APIs that allow a wealthy ecosystem of instruments for enhancing creator workflows and customization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the finish of the 12 months, we started rolling out our new Creator Hub, a useful resource that brings all of our on-line instruments and documentation for builders right into a unified platform. Creator Hub makes creation simpler, sooner, and extra streamlined by offering operational and administration assist in a single place. The expertise we\u2019re constructing for Creator Hub can even carry larger constancy and capabilities to developer creations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Evolving our Digital Economic system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022, our Economic system group achieved an necessary milestone: greater than <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">90% of things revealed in Market<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are actually made by creators, getting us even nearer to the purpose the place all content material inside Roblox is absolutely user-generated. We\u2019re persevering with to enhance consumer discovery in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Market<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so folks can discover objects they need in a manner that may redefine the consumer journey<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We envision a future the place choose objects are supplied on a restricted foundation, and different objects are extra broadly accessible, so folks can discover a breadth of things they love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This September, at<\/span> our largest <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roblox Builders Convention<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ever, we introduced <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Immersive Adverts<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This progressive 3D promoting expertise is designed to provide manufacturers and builders alike the power to achieve their audiences in new methods.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrap\">\n<p><div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Immersive Ads\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xWBb8oCUHmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p> frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; permit=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><b>Investing in Security and Civility<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the Roblox neighborhood continues to develop, we&#8217;re deeply centered on guaranteeing a secure and civil surroundings for our customers. Over the past 12 months, we elevated our investments in AI and machine studying for autonomously detecting and stopping makes an attempt by dangerous actors to have interaction in dangerous communications or add dangerous content material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0We continued to enhance sophistication in our content material and chat moderation efforts. Utilizing pure language processing fashions, we\u2019ve developed our programs to not simply flag prohibited language however to know context and act accordingly. In 2022, we used these fashions to energy automated moderation options in English, in addition to in Spanish, German, Portuguese and extra, and we are going to proceed to roll them out globally in 2023.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to our investments round AI and machine studying, we\u2019ve been capable of safely channel extra of our first-line moderation to automated programs. Roblox has made significant enhancements to the time to motion on content material recognized as problematic. The upshot: whereas pace moderately has lengthy been a power for Roblox, we\u2019re now even sooner and extra correct.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Creating Alternatives for Manufacturers\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manufacturers of every type, from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alo Yoga<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotify<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the NFL<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, continued to make use of Roblox to attach and interact with hundreds of thousands of individuals. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily, Roblox makes completely new on-line connections doable by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">giving corporations the power<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to create thrilling activations and digital merchandise. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There have been over 100 model activations launched in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By giving folks the instruments to specific themselves in any manner they need, we\u2019ve seen some wonderful creativity and attention-grabbing traits from the neighborhood. These had been captured in our <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2022 Metaverse Trend Traits<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report, revealed in collaboration with the Parsons Faculty of Design. The report dives into the brand new traits and alternatives in digital trend, and the way attire within the digital world can encourage folks to specific themselves in new methods on Roblox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We additionally continued to deal with supporting instructional builders, suppliers, and educators in bringing high-quality content material to the platform throughout a broad vary of topics, grade ranges, and expertise genres. We made progress within the schooling class by partnering with our first Roblox Group Fund recipient, the Museum of Science, Boston, on the launch of their<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission: Mars<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">expertise on the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43226\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOS_Hero_WithLogo-1.png\" alt=\"Museum of Science Mission: Mars graphic\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOS_Hero_WithLogo-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOS_Hero_WithLogo-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOS_Hero_WithLogo-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOS_Hero_WithLogo-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MOS_Hero_WithLogo-1-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As corporations proceed to ascertain themselves on Roblox with the assistance of our neighborhood, the alternatives for creators improve. And the expansion of our neighborhood expands the alternatives for organizations to attach with their audiences on Roblox. We\u2019re excited to see this momentum proceed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Investing in Our Individuals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of this is able to be doable with out our gifted staff. To assist the continued development of our platform, we continued to spend money on creating our expertise and management. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nick Tornow<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> joined us to steer the Creator Engineering group, and most just lately <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Stauffer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> joined us as our new VP of Engineering on the Engine group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the spirit of collaboration driving innovation, we held our first all-employee in-person <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roblox Week<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at our San Mateo headquarters in July. Groups gathered for every week of actions that fostered connections, strengthened our neighborhood, and celebrated the technical improvements we\u2019re constructing to form the longer term. And on the finish of the 12 months, we returned to an in-person Hack Week, with greater than 225 groups <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pursuing self-directed tasks that pushed boundaries and accelerated the way forward for our platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrap\">\n<p><div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Roblox Week 2022\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9H11vNafpLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p> frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; permit=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lastly, we had been honored to rank third on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quick Firm\u2019s Prime 100 Workplaces for Innovators in 2022<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This award displays our innovation-first tradition that empowers our technical groups to be accountable, take the lengthy view, and get stuff achieved, all whereas respecting our international neighborhood of hundreds of thousands of creators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Journey Forward<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trying forward, I\u2019m excited to see how creativity and invention proceed to gasoline development at Roblox. At each degree, we\u2019re seeing new alternatives to attach a billion folks with optimism and civility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d prefer to thank our staff, our Roblox board, and your complete Roblox neighborhood for all of the issues they\u2019ve achieved and made doable this 12 months. We&#8217;ve an thrilling 12 months forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Baszucki, a.okay.a Builderman\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founder and CEO, Roblox<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.roblox.com\/2023\/01\/2022-year-in-review-letter-from-our-ceo\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=2022-year-in-review-letter-from-our-ceo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 2022 was an awesome 12 months for Roblox. We&#8217;re optimistically driving our imaginative and prescient to reimagine the way in which folks come collectively, and we\u2019re realizing it by enabling deeper types of expression, communication, and immersion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The investments we&#8217;re making to increase the engagement of Roblox throughout geographies and age teams are paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[593,1293,67,553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12136,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions\/12136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}