# The Community Software Landscape

> Six companies - Uscreen, Bevy, Almabase, Personify, Zendesk and Gradual - each sell software for gathering a crowd, but they serve very different owners: creators, enterprise developer-relations teams, universities, professional associations, support organizations and a new wave of purpose-led community builders. The through-line is a single contested word, community, and a live argument about whether that community is a revenue engine you own or a cost center you rent.

## Achievements

- Uscreen reports more than $1 billion in cumulative creator revenue and 4,000-plus creators on the platform since 2014.
- Bevy became the go-to events engine for large developer-relations and community teams running global chapters and meetups.
- Almabase established itself as an alumni-engagement layer that plugs into CRMs like Raiser's Edge, Salesforce and Blackbaud.
- Personify360 and Personify ThreeSixty run the operational backbone - membership, finance, events - for large associations and nonprofits.
- Zendesk turned community forums and help centers into a mainstream support-deflection channel used by thousands of companies.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Uscreen passes $1 billion in total creator revenue, appoints Allison Yazdian as CEO, and launches memberships for creators including Keke Palmer, Caleb Hammer and The Game Theorists.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bevyhq
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BevyHQ/

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Last updated: 2026-08-09