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 hundreds of millions 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 break down the stats by country. 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, the raw data for the country market stats is available on Google Docs under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
IM Network Market Share by Country — July 2008 (Google Docs)
By Jeff, Billionsconnected.com