Friday 15 March 2013
Nimbuzz goes past 150 million users; Asia accounts for over 60% of user base
Posted on 22:29 by Maria Scott
Instant messaging platform Nimbuzz has
announced its global subscriber base has now gone past 150 million in
200 countries. Nimbuzz reveals more than 60 percent of its user base
comes from Asia.
"The company now boasts more than 37
million users in the Middle East and over 41 million in Rest of Asia
including India," Nimbuzz said in a release.
Nimbuzz
says it has seen a 100 percent year-over-growth with the platform now
supporting more than 5,000 devices. According to Nimbuzz, more than 1
billion minutes of Nimbuzz P2P, NimbuzzOut and SIP calls are made per
month, while over 102 billion messages are sent and received per month.
Android accounts for over 35 percent of all active and new users.
Nimbuzz launched in 2006 had reached 50
million users in August 2011, and 100 million in August 2012. Nimbuzz’s
growth figures are quite impressive, given it faces a strong
competition from the likes WhatsApp, Groupme and ChatOn.
Availability on a wide range of platform such as BlackBerry 10, iOS,
Symbian, Windows Phone, Android, J2ME and even for PC has evidently
helped the platform grow.
In a recent interview with Digit,
Nimbuzz CEO Vikas Saxena had revealed Nimbuzz had seen a significant
growth after launching on the Android platform. “Since we released
Nimbuzz for the Android platform, we have seen incredible sustained
growth, both in India, as well as other mobile markets around the world –
this growth is a direct result of the need and demand for a universal
(cross-platform) communications solution. People need to communicate and
need to do so in the easiest, most collaborative way possible. As
smartphones and data plans continue to gain momentum in emerging
markets, we expect to see this growth continue,” said Vikas Saxena.
He also revealed partnership with Indian
carriers also helped the platform grow. “Unlike many of our
competitors, Nimbuzz currently holds partnerships with all of the major
carriers throughout India, including Aircel, Airtel, Tata DOCOMO, Idea
Cellular and other global carriers like Telcomsel, and Smartfen. Through
these partnerships, Nimbuzz has become a powerful channel for revenue
supplementation, providing carriers with both ad & data revenue,”
added Vikas Saxena.
Read the full interview with Nimbuzz CEO Vikas Saxena here.
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/Nimbuzz-goes-past-150-million-users-Asia_13911.html
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/Nimbuzz-goes-past-150-million-users-Asia_13911.html
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