Tag: messaging

Facebook says its Facebook Messenger messaging app hit the milestone of 800 million active users at the end of 2015, up from 500 million in November 2014. In fact, the social network's VP of messaging products David Marcus...

Research firm eMarketer has published its first estimates for the mobile messaging market, and the figures are big. Its new report claims that 1.4bn people will use mobile messaging apps this year – 75% of smartphone...

User growth has slowed drastically for social app Line, which added just 1m new monthly active users last quarter, and 6m the quarter before that. The company’s latest financials reveal it now has 212m active users,...

Music messaging apps continue to have plenty of sceptics: Music Messenger disappeared from the app stores not long after its $30m funding round, while hard data on the popularity of startups like MSTY and Rithm remains thin...

Japanese social app Line isn’t going public in the near future, after its parent company Naver abandoned plans for an IPO. It’s the second time the company has postponed going public with its messaging subsidiary, with...

Count us surprised by the headline finding from the Pew Research Center’s latest US study: it claims that 36% of American smartphone owners are using messaging apps, although that rises to 49% of 18-29 year-olds. Both figures...

No, not a shock at all, given that Snapchat had tens of millions of daily users that year, but only launched its first ads in October. Still, Gawker’s leaked accounts for Snapchat between January and November 2014 are still...

Earlier this year, messaging app Kik said it had 200 million registered users, and while it has resisted calls to say how many of them are active, it claims that the ones who are average 35 minutes per session in the app....

If you’re interested in the evolution of messaging apps into platforms for media, we recommend a reading of a new blog post by Connie Chan, partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz about WeChat (aka Weixin). “While seemingly...

Tonight is Music Ally’s Future Music Marketing event in London, where we’ve gathered a panel of opinionated experts to give their views on whether a selection of technologies are hits or hype – or a bit of both –...

As predicted, Facebook announced plans yesterday to turn its Facebook Messenger app into a bona-fide platform for external developers, while also confirming that the messaging app now has 600 million monthly active users. (Or,...

Having completed its acquisition by messaging firm Line, streaming service MixRadio’s Mark Wheatley has been talking about the company’s ambition to bring music and messaging together in the future. “We will see –...