In June last year, it was reported that while Spotify passed the 140 million monthly
active user mark, the Stockholm, Sweden - based company was still losing money due to the low volume of paying subscribers versus the high royalty rates it paid to artists every time their song was played on the streaming service.
The app now joins WhatsApp, YouTube and Facebook among very popular apps that have clocked or crossed the 1 billion
active user mark globally.
Instagram announced a new milestone today — less than a year after hitting the 200 million monthly
active user mark...
While many global giants, including WeChat and Line are keeping a close eye on their userbase growth in the country, homegrown Hike messaging app is trying to capture the largest chunk of the local mobile messaging market, after crossing over 35 million
active users mark recently.
Not exact matches
A
marked slowdown in key
active user metrics has put slowing revenue growth in focus.
Google (goog), on the other hand, has hit the 1 billion monthly
active -
user mark several times over.
The one billion
mark comes not long after Tencent's third - quarter results in November, which show that WeChat's monthly
active user had passed 980 million, a significant 15.8 % increase compared to the same period of the previous year.
Facebook Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook has reached two billion
active monthly
users, making it the world's largest social network, though it's not as if the title could even be contested.
Twitter said daily
active users increased 10 percent in the recent period,
marking the sixth consecutive quarter of double - digit increases.
In the early days of Facebook (and still today)
Mark Zuckerberg used monthly
active users as the metric he held everyone to.
«I think, in this case, it's okay that they're making it exclusive to Apple fans, because it's a micro-niche dating site,» says
Mark Brooks, an online dating site consultant who has worked for Cupid.com and eHarmony.com «But what's going to matter the most is not just the numbers they see, it's how
active their
user base is.»
Of course, BBM still trails a long way behind the current instant messaging leader, WhatsApp — a service, owned by Facebook, with over 600 million
active users (while hoping for enough growth to bring that number closer to the 2 - 3 billion
mark).
When he isn't giving away his vast fortune, bringing the internet to remote parts of the earth, or trying to rid the world of all disease,
Mark Zuckerberg continues to run a social media network that boasts nearly two billion
active monthly
users - and that requires some innovative tech.
So it's not surprising that Gfycat CEO Richard Rabbat would explain why the company says it has hit 130 million monthly
active users as many of these startups start to run past the 100 million
mark.
WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion monthly
active users (MAUs) who are exchanging nearly 60 billion messages on a single day, Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday.
At the time, it only had 450 million monthly
active users, but under the leadership of Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg, that number has more than doubled.
As for average number of daily
active users, Twitter says that it grew by 12 percent year over year, which also
marks the fifth consecutive quarter of a double - digit growth.
Today Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg announced Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status both now have 300 million daily
active users.
The 100 million
mark is a large number that dwarfs the number of Amazon Alexa
users, but only reflects 5 % of worldwide Android smartphone
users and is less than Microsoft's claim of 145 million monthly
active Cortana
users.
Facebook has hit 2 billion
active monthly
users, Chief Executive
Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday.