WhatsApp ist mit rund 800 Millionen aktiven Nutzern einer der größten Messaging Diensten weltweit und auch im deutschsprachigen Raum Marktführer, trotz aller Diskussionen über die Datensicherheit. Für einen kleinen Vergleich hier unsere Grafik vom März 2015, in der die Zahlen noch etwas niedriger waren.
Shoponless hat die aktuellen Daten zu WhatsApp, die mittlerweile zu Facebook gehören, gesammelt und in einer Infografik zusammen gestellt:
- As of April 2015, there ar more than 800 million active users.
- India has the largest number of active users.
- More than 1 million users get registered daily.
- As of January 2015, 30 billion messages gets sent and received daily.
- Average amount of time spent by users at a weekly basis is 195 minutes.
- Before Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, Google offered to pay $ 10 billion.
- WhatsApp is responsible for 27% of selfies shared on social media.
- Founder Jan Koum was denied a job at Facebook in 2008.
- WhatsApp messaging volume overtook the world SMS volume long time back.
- WhatsApp has a total of 55 employees. Out of which only 34 are engineers. That means there is a ration of 1 developer to 23 million active users
- The average user checks the app approximately 23 times per day.
- An average user ends more than 1000 messages per month.
- As of early 2014, an average user shares about 40 pictures, 7 videos and 13 voice notes per month. You can only imagine what the number would be now.
- WhatsApp is worth more than entire annual budget of NASA, which is $17 billion.
- As of February 2015, WhatsApp is at 6th position in the list of global brands which rank highest in consumer engagement
Dies ist nur ein Auszug. Alle Daten findet man bei Shoponless. Alle Infografiken, die wir für gut befinden, sammeln wir unter dem Schlagwort „Infografiken“ auf mobile zeitgeist. Noch mehr haben wir in unserem Infografiken-Board auf Pinterest zusammen gestellt.
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