Global Instant Messaging Market Share – Open Data
Ever gone looking for instant messaging market share data?
It seems almost unfathomable that there can be networks with active accounts numbering in the 100 MMs to billions and total accounts certainly in the billions for which there is no detailed public market share data.
Based on EQO’s IM interconnect capability we’ve been able to take a look inside the major IM networks to see the competitive landscape and broken down the stats by country – and like any good disruptive player we thought the data should be public.
Global IM Market Share Stats – July 2008 (PDF)
In addition to the PDF version, I have made the raw data for the country market stats available on Google Docs under a Creative Commons attribution-share alike license.
Feedback and comments appreciated!
– Jeff
Given that GTalk is a Jabber service, how can numbers for Jabber be less than the numbers for Gtalk?
Would be great to have an explanation on how the research was done, specially now that Y! and MSN! can work both ways.
Jeff, why no Vietnam, Thailand
Gtalk Rulez… is most eficently that msn
Yessss! Thank you very much for graphing all those data!
I posted something similar once: http://nyco.wordpress.com/2006/11/26/on-compte-les-points/ (”Couting the points”)
Since it’s by-sa, is it possible to edit the doc?
How did you find your data? Via Google Trends?
Maybe GTalk and Jabber should be fusionned.
Maybe more european coutries should be figured also. Especially eastern european countries, showing an ICQ dominnance.
Cheers,
Nÿco
Is there any data on Poland? I notice that Gadu-Gadu is not one of the protocols listed.
Adding support to Borton’s comment – the Jabber and GTalk numbers should be combined since they’re the same network. The label can perhaps be “Jabber (including Google Talk)”.
And for the world ? (for the country in the study)
And an explanation of how the research was done would be great, thanks
Any speculation why MSN is so strong? My first thought would be that Microsoft had a lot more resources available in the beginning of the IM boom and was able to rapidly localize MSN.
This is great! What about Skype though? It would be great to understand how they fitted into the picture.
from the picture above and in real life here (i’m in indonesia) it’s pretty accurate
YM here seems outnumber any other IM protocols here