In its first quarter financial report in 2014 Facebook anticipated that «mobile usage will continue to be the primary driver of
our user growth for the foreseeable future and that usage through personal computers will decline worldwide, including in key markets such as the United States and other developed markets in Europe and Asia» (emphasis mine).
And if the early partnerships prove mutually beneficial for each party, it could be an important source of
user growth for the company.
One of his PowerPoint slides put it more bluntly: «Profit growth for NTGR;
User growth for ARLO.»
Not exact matches
The on - demand economy is also projected to show significant
growth, though the general trend of expansion in the number of
users of 1099 forms (tax forms
for independent contractors) started long before the recent tech boom.
It could be months before Twitter decides to sell — Dorsey still hopes to carry out a vision of tapping into live broadcasts events as a way to reignite
user growth — but the question remains: How much would an outside company be willing to pay
for Twitter?
In 2016, Dropbox said it had 500 million
users and 150,000 Dropbox Business
users, so while overall
user growth is stagnant, more companies are paying
for its product.
For Twitter, which has long struggled with introducing new
users to its confusing world of hashtags, @ signs, and followers, the NFL games present a unique opportunity to jump start
growth.
Users» desire
for authenticity has fueled the rental app's
growth, so why not do more to create a more authentic experience
for their customers?
For the full year, it said it is aiming for 92 - 96 million premium users, representing growth of 33 percent at the mid-point of that foreca
For the full year, it said it is aiming
for 92 - 96 million premium users, representing growth of 33 percent at the mid-point of that foreca
for 92 - 96 million premium
users, representing
growth of 33 percent at the mid-point of that forecast.
Perhaps even more impressive than the revenue
growth is the passion GoPro's
users have
for its products, as expressed by the flood of GoPro videos spreading across YouTube and Facebook.
«There seems to be very little progress on some of the big things in terms of getting
user growth going again, in terms of making Twitter more accessible
for new
users, in terms of dealing with abuse, in terms of driving revenue
growth.»
Users buying deals on their smartphones is a primary
growth area
for Groupon.
For the San Francisco company, these games are part of a major initiative to use the video streaming of live events, particularly sports, as a way to drive
user growth and engagement, and, in this way, ad sales.
To justify its relatively high valuation and fend off concerns about slowing
user growth, Snap has emphasized how important Snapchat is to its
users, how long they spend on the app and the revenue potential of the emerging trend
for young people to communicate with video rather than text.
It put out a clarification statement after the report, giving two clues about the number: that daily
users make up less than 50 percent of monthly
users, and that there's a lot of room
for growth.
User growth is an important marker
for both analysts and the company, who see such
growth as the key to increasing the company's advertising revenue.
Twitter is telling investors to focus instead on the percentage
growth of people who use it daily, but in a May 10 letter, the SEC asked
for Twitter to explain «how the percentage change information provides an investor with a clear understanding of
user engagement on your platform.»
Recent months have brought a spate of bad news
for the company / social media service, with
user growth bottoming out, executives leaving the company and usage declining.
A tightening of the company's focus on home services like cleaning and handyman work and a somewhat more aggressive use of paid channels
for user acquisition, with advertising now bringing in 35 percent of new business, helped fuel the
growth.
The Next Web's weekend editor Owen Williams thinks
growth isn't happening because the service is making it too difficult
for new
users to find people worth following, while Mathew Ingram over at GigaOm believes it's because the company is having trouble deciding on an overall focus.
Twitter has been trying
for years to jumpstart
user growth, and now the company is rolling out a series of changes designed to make the service easier and more intuitive.
Myspace's first CEO, Chris DeWolfe, suggested that
users be charged
for membership, but that idea was shot down by eUniverse's founder and CEO, Brad Greenspan, who saw more
growth potential in unrestricted membership.
The New York - based company in February announced its best
user growth in eight years, adding 2.2 million net new U.S. subscribers
for 2015 — a 30 % improvement over 2014 —
for a total of 29.5 million.
David Wehner, Facebook's chief financial officer, pointed to Asia - Pacific, especially India, as one of the most promising areas
for continued
user growth.
The biggest red flag
for Snap is that its
user growth is slowing.
Available now, the update allows
users «to easily and reliably build, refine, preview, prepare and print 3 - D designs, setting the stage
for explosive
growth in the 3 - D printing market,» the company said.
How Mint Grew to 1.5 Million
Users and Sold
for $ 170 Million in Just 2 Years Mint, the darling of personal finance apps, launched in September 2007 and quickly experienced exponential
growth.
Expectations had run high
for Twitter since the messaging service, which
for years had fought to revive
growth in
users, surprised Wall Street in the second quarter by signing up 24 percent more people globally.
Content Marketing
Growth Hacks [with Infographic] Technically, this article isn't about
user acquisition, but great content marketing can be one of the most powerful drivers
for conversion, so it deserves a place on this list.
While overall smartphone market
growth has slowed in recent years, we continue to see good opportunities
for Apple to gain market share in both developed and emerging markets due to its significantly superior
user experience, human - computer interface, and premium branding.
By analyzing past bubbles, we can discern that companies that best leverage this newfound excess of infrastructure and
growth of
user base will be enormous players
for time to come.
For some time Twitter's runaway
growth — in the first half of 2009, Twitter added more
users more quickly than almost any web service in history — masked its execution problems.
I love this because
for most people, Twitter's suggested
users list probably looked like an innovation from the product team (a good one at that), but in reality the marketing and
growth team developed it.
When I interviewed Elman
for the ebook of
Growth Hacker Marketing, he explained it like this: «When I first joined the company, the suggested
user list had 20 random people who were default selected to follow.»
It's doubtful that Flipboard, which has its own
user -
growth challenges, will solve this particular issue
for Twitter (although Periscope just might).
Publishers like The New York Times have websites that
users spend less than 20 minutes on in the average month, apps that no one wants to pay
for, and paywalls whose
growth is flattening sharply.
Critics have argued that Twitter only allows such behavior because it is desperate
for engagement and
user growth, which is similar to the argument
for why Facebook doesn't care about fake news.
J.P. Morgan initiates coverage
for Spotify shares with an overweight rating, predicting strong
user growth over the next five years.
«With
users and subscriber
growth ahead of all other platforms in our coverage group and global penetration rates of streaming subscriptions still relatively low, we believe Spotify maintains a long runway
for subscriber additions.»
«We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it
for years,» Costolo, who has come under investor scrutiny of late given Twitter's sluggish
user growth, wrote in an internal memo obtained by The Verge.
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Such laws are not just a nuisance but a barrier to future
growth:
For the likes of Facebook and Google, they could choke off the
user data that turbocharges their advertising businesses.
They must learn the essentials that all investors look
for: rapid
user growth, proven customer acquisition metrics from previously tested sales and marketing channels and knowing the best, most cost - effective sales and marketing tactics to stretch their limited budgets.
BlackBerry still owns more than 40 % of the North American smartphone market, and though it continues to show healthy
growth in emerging markets, investors worry about the declining average sale price
for its products, about RIM's failure to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and about the growing sense that it no longer offers an enterprise
user anything that one of its sexier rivals doesn't do as well or better.
Slower
user growth is a risk, he writes in a February 6 report, but he thinks the changes that Twitter has said it would make — improving content discovery, enhancing direct messaging and making it easier
for new
users to adapt quickly — will boost
growth going forward.
But investors were looking
for even more — including faster
user growth — and the company's stock dipped as much as 12 per cent in after - hours trading Wednesday.
Reviews are magnets
for smartphone
users, valuable
for companies seeking mobile
growth.
But the stock quickly turned lower, with analysts flagging widening losses, slowing
user growth and lack of voting rights
for outside investors.
Some risk factors the company listed in the filing include slowing
growth of its
user base and a decline in demand
for its advertising products.
Part of the App Store's
growth have been simple tweaks: splitting Apps and Games into two different tabs,
for instance, as well as adding a new «Today» section to allow
users to better get a sense of the broad swath