2007 headquarters irvine ca key people alex quilici chief executive officer products visual voicemail call management robocall blocking software website youmail.com youmail is an irvine ca based developer of visual voicemail 1 and robocall blocking software . 2 their voicemail software replaces the voicemail service offered by mobile phone manufacturers and offers webmail like voicemail access and voicemail to text transcriptions . 3 the company also compiles a national robocall index by monitoring automated call patterns and behaviors and verifying that activity against numbers that its customers manually block or report as spam . 4 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 voicemail apps 2.2 national robocall index 2.3 third party development 3 references 4 external links history edit youmail brand visual voicemail software was developed trademarked and brought to market in 2006 by auckland new zealand based communications software developer zeacom . the service originally started out as a multi platform visual voicemail solution with the novel feature of personal greetings where users could create different greetings for callers based on their incoming caller id . 1 youmail was spun off as a standalone service in 2007 . 5 in november 2007 youmail announced a partnership with salient media 6 to offer a combination of free and subscription based comedic voicemail greetings . in 2009 the company saw its first success with visual voicemail for blackberry . 5 it also launched a free iphone app which was considered a loss leader for its voicemail transcription services . 3 in 2010 the company announced that youmail was the standard voicemail that comes with all mobile phones from immix wireless in pennsylvania cellular one in east central illinois blue wireless in new york ismart mobile in montana voicepulse in new jersey and windy city cellular in adak alaska . 7 in 2011 the company launched whoareyou an app for android that provides users with caller s names and gives them the ability to add specific numbers to a block list screening out robocalls and telemarketers in the process . 8 by 2012 the company reported over 2.5 million registered users of its service . 9 the company also announced they stopped supporting new updates for blackberry devices . 10 in november 2015 the company launched a national robocall index to track legal and illegal robocall traffic across the us . the initial report indicated at that time that 1 out or every 6 calls received in the us was generated by a machine . 11 products edit voicemail apps edit youmail develops visual voicemail apps for android phones 12 and iphones . 3 the app features a voice to text feature which automatically transcribes voice messages and displays the text on screen . this allows users to get their messages without having to listen to them . 13 the company also produces whoareyou for android which enhances their visual voicemail app by adding call and text blocking and real time reverse lookups on incoming calls and sms messages . 8 the app can deter callers by picking up the call playing a recorded out of service message to the caller and hang back up making the caller think the line has been disconnected . 14 the company s visual voicemail app is preloaded or recommended by other carriers including viaero wireless 15 and redpocketmobile . 16 national robocall index edit the company also produces a national robocall index which announced in january 2016 that americans received over one billion unsolicited or automated calls in december 2015 . atlanta georgia was identified as the area hardest hit by robocalls with houston texas in second . 17 third party development edit third party developers use youmail s api to create apps for other platforms such as magikmail for windows phone . 18 references edit a b adam pash . create unique voicemail greetings for each caller . lifehacker.com . retrieved 2013 09 07 . 3 musical notes that will stop robocalls . fox32chicago.com . 2016 02 17 . retrieved 2016 05 03 . a b c youmail s free iphone app adds to apple s voicemail . venturebeat.com . 2009 06 16 . retrieved 2016 05 02 . robocalls proliferate in las vegas nationwide but remain difficult to stop . reviewjournal.com . 2015 12 21 . retrieved 2016 05 06 . a b after three years visual voicemail service youmail calls it quits on blackberry . techcrunch.com . 2012 04 13 . retrieved 2015 05 13 . funny voicemail greetings for youmail from salient media . techcrunch.com . 2007 11 16 . retrieved 2016 05 02 . youmail 500 million calls . socaltech.com . 2010 09 13 . retrieved 2016 05 03 . a b youmail launches whoareyou visual caller id app for android . intomobile.com . 2011 12 21 . retrieved 2016 05 03 . why a top app maker is ditching blackberry . cnn.com . 2012 04 17 . retrieved 2016 05 02 . pepitone julianne 2012 04 17 . youmail axes blackberry app support after steady exodus . money.cnn.com . retrieved 2016 05 02 . 5 facts about robocalls that ll make you hate them even more . money.com . 2015 11 12 . retrieved 2016 05 06 . youmail pumps up call blocking in android phones . pcworld.com . 2012 03 16 . retrieved 2016 05 03 . youmail freshens up an old standby voicemail . cbsnews.com . 2015 10 08 . retrieved 2016 07 19 . whoareyou offers free caller id sms blocking and reverse phone number lookups for android . lifehacker.com . 2012 07 12 . retrieved 2016 05 06 . should mobile operators give up on voicemail . gigaom.com . 2011 11 30 . retrieved 2016 05 03 . mvno red pocket experiments with bring your own visual voicemail . gigaom.com . 2013 01 03 . retrieved 2016 05 03 . which cities receive the most robocalls . gigaom.com . 2016 01 15 . retrieved 2016 05 06 . youmail hits windows phone 7 . socaltech.com . 2011 03 24 . retrieved 2016 05 03 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title youmail & oldid 730560881 categories mobile contenttechnology companies established in 2007 navigation menu personal tools 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