Grade B28 sourcesHIS-00114
Deep Nostalgia
App & software · 2021 · Niche
An AI photo animator pushed MyHeritage to No. 1 overall on the App Store.
MyHeritage
@MyHeritage · Feb 25, 2021
With our new Deep Nostalgia™, you can see how a person from an old photo could have moved and looked if they were captured on video! Read more: ow.ly/jIYh50DJNp0 #RootsTech #RootsTechConnect
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Animations created
- 50M
- First 18 days · Owner report Mar 15, 2021 · Open web · Self-reported · MyHeritage
- Peak date
- Week of Mar 2, 2021
- Feb 25 ’21 to Week of Mar 2, 2021
- Platforms
- 5
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Mixed
- Technology
How it spread
Trace the originMyHeritage launched Deep Nostalgia with advertising and planned media seeding. Users shared animated portraits on Twitter and reactions on TikTok. The app reached No. 1 overall on the App Store; MyHeritage reported 50 million animations after 18 days.
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Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
- Added 1 number
- Revised 3 events · Added 7 sources · Archived 9 sources · Revised 10 numbers · Added 4 evidence checks · Score 30 → 38
- Added: 16 events, 21 sources · Score 30
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New cases, every week
How the next thing spread, the week it does.