Last year, and this year again, some people contacted me in panic somewhere in July or August telling me that Skype growth was slowing down.
Indeed, see the graph below.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1843/3561/400/20060906%20summerslowdown.png)
Circle (3) is the period between Christmas 2005 and New Year 2006! Skype Population is still mainly in Europe and the Americas: a lot of people are on Holiday or with the family.
This shows clearly that Skype is used mainly by the “working adults” class instead of kids: kids play more with the computer on week-end or during holiday, in my humble opinion.
Why didn’t we notice” such a slowdown in summer 2004 (1)?
Two possible reasons:
- my data isn’t accurate enough (too few data points)
- SkypeOut was launched in summer 2004 and has clearly boosted the growth of Skype
2 comments:
With back-to-school period fully underway and a proper beta of Skype Video for Mac this morning, I would not be surprised to see 8 million before the end of the month.
Fantastic blog btw. I have added it to my favorites.
Thanks for the compliment! :-)
8 million on November 6 was indeed probably too pessimistic, but you are too optimistic!
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