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Mobile Messaging Apps
- Popularity by Mobile Operating System -
DSP-Partners I Darmstadt I March2014

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Popularity of Messaging-Apps by Mobile Platform
[as of March 2014; ranking derived from number of ratings in the respective App Store]
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Source: Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Windows Phone Store, Blackberry App World; number of ratings of the respective Apps per 3/2014
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Conclusions
 Popularity of Messaging-Apps varies strongly among the
different mobile platforms
 WhatsApp and Viber being the only 2 Messaging-Apps to reach
a top 5 position on all mobile platforms
 WhatsApp being particularily strong on Android and Blackberry
 Skype is doing best on iOS
 Kik-Messenger remarkably strong on iOS
 Facebook-Messenger not present in the top 5 rankings on
WinPhone and Blackberry

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Contact
Stefan Behrendt
Founder I Managing Partner
DSP-Partners
www.dsp-partners.com
www.twitter.com/stbe
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