Some days ago Skype proudly announced that their users spend a total amount of 2 billion minutes per day on Skype.
Some 2 months ago Skype told the world that there were more than 280 million active users each month, see a previous blog!
Using these two numbers, this means that the average daily time spend on Skype calls is 7 minutes per active user! A lot of them probably with video, therefore more enjoyable than an ordinary phone call!
2013-04-02
55 million concurrent people online
So, again a million ”crossover”, 55 million people, simultaneously online, on Skype ! Nice!
Last (Northern Hemisphere) school year we had 11 milestones like this! This was a record.
The vertical lines are NOT January 1 lines, but 20 of August lines. Why this choice? Because in (Northern Hemisphere) summer there is no apparent growth of concurrent users online. How many already this school year, in fact the 10th school year since the launch of Skype? Count for yourself or see the answer below the graph ...
14 million crossovers and end of June is still quite far away! Yes, the Skype user base is still growing!
The vertical lines are NOT January 1 lines, but 20 of August lines. Why this choice? Because in (Northern Hemisphere) summer there is no apparent growth of concurrent users online. How many already this school year, in fact the 10th school year since the launch of Skype? Count for yourself or see the answer below the graph ...
14 million crossovers and end of June is still quite far away! Yes, the Skype user base is still growing!
2013-02-17
Some recent numbers
This blog is about numbers, therefore, even if it is only « copy-paste »
i publish what I find, sometimes with comments or own graphs, sometimes without
…
On the Skype blog they wrote: “more than 280 million people choose Skype to connect with their loved ones and colleagues every month.”
And then there was also Telegeography:
2013-01-27
Download speed of Skype client accelerating!
If the RSS
feed of Skype provides correct numbers (and I don’t doubt about it!) we will
see in the next days a serious increase of concurrent Skype users online! Indeed,
the last days the number of downloads of the Skype client has a main speed of
4200 downloads per minute, and I even saw a speed of 6375 downloads/minute, never saw such a high speed before! (I
don’t monitor on a continuous basis, therefore there probably were even higher
download speeds!)
Exciting
times ahead :-)
2013-01-21
50 million concurrent users online !
Today,
Skype crossed the 49 million AND the 50 million marks of concurrent users
online !
More mobile
devices, the MSN integration and the let’s not forget the natural growth of
users worldwide!
This means
that one out of each 140 people in the World was online at the same moment (if
we forget multiple accounts of one user – I had two running!).
On
September 5, 2003 there were "only" 44,444 people online at some moment of
that day (I don’t have the hour)!
Where will
it stop?
2013-01-14
And, 48 million people online today!
Yesterday,
a Sunday, 47 million, and more than 48 million people online today. So, this means something is
happening.
Steve
Schoen, from Hawaii, and one of my most regular readers thinks that two factors
could explain this sudden "online users" surge:
Both
announcements were made on January 10 on the Skype Blogs!
2013-01-13
47 million on a Sunday, first time ever!
It never
happened before that Skype crossed a million milestone on a Sunday, but it
happened today:
47 million
people online at about 18h GMT, thanks to Steven Schoen from Honolulu – Hawaii who
warned me!
On weekends
Skype usually doesn’t break records. Million Milestones were never crossed on a
Friday (Muslim weekend), Saturday or Sunday (Christian weekend), and now for
the first time ever a Sunday, strange, almost funny!
And Happy New Year to all my readers!
2012-12-01
Higher speed of downloads of Skype client
Is the integration of MSN and Skype finally showing up in the number of Skype downloads, or is it the –according to Skype – massive download of Skype for iPhone and iPad?
See their blog here:
“Skype for iPhone and iPad Hits over 120 Million Downloads and Releases New Versions”.
In my opinion it is more the MSN-Skype merge. The download graph show clearly a bend around November 20, with download speeds as high as 5000 clients/minute, instead of the 2000 /minute at other moments!
“Skype for iPhone and iPad Hits over 120 Million Downloads and Releases New Versions”.
In my opinion it is more the MSN-Skype merge. The download graph show clearly a bend around November 20, with download speeds as high as 5000 clients/minute, instead of the 2000 /minute at other moments!
2012-11-12
46 million people online
New million crossed: 46 million concurrent users online, thanks to Steve from Hawaii to warn me!
2012-11-10
Skype and MSN merge
Skype announced some days ago that it will integrate MSN and Skype. In fact, from what I understand, MSN will disappear and be swallowed by Skype. I would have expected an acceleration of downloads of the Skype client (and of users online), but to my surprise … nothing yet! See the graph below.
Why? Well, first, the migration to Skype is still not mandatory! Secondly, and this is a guess, some functionalities will be lost, and probably some MSN users are reluctant to move now, see the questions and answers here.
But there is hope! One of the questions is “Can I show up as offline to specific contacts?” and the answer is “You can’t yet hide from individual contacts.” The “yet” is revealing that they are working on it! This is an old “desire” of quite a lot of Skype users, read their forum!
But there is hope! One of the questions is “Can I show up as offline to specific contacts?” and the answer is “You can’t yet hide from individual contacts.” The “yet” is revealing that they are working on it! This is an old “desire” of quite a lot of Skype users, read their forum!
2012-10-08
45 million people online
We reached 44 million concurrent Skype users online on September 17, but I was too busy and didn't blog.
Today my "warning mate Steve" from Hawaii warned me that we reached 45 million some minutes ago! Indeed!
More and more people are active on the internet, but there are also more and more people that are permanently connected through mobile devices (not my case yet)! I guess these are the two main reasons for the growth of Skype concurrent users online
Today my "warning mate Steve" from Hawaii warned me that we reached 45 million some minutes ago! Indeed!
More and more people are active on the internet, but there are also more and more people that are permanently connected through mobile devices (not my case yet)! I guess these are the two main reasons for the growth of Skype concurrent users online
2012-09-10
43 million
According to one of my blog readers, we reached 43 million concurrent users online today.
Thanks, Steve Schoen, from Hawai.
He said
"I think the surge in usage is somehow school-related".
He is probably right!
Thanks, Steve Schoen, from Hawai.
He said
"I think the surge in usage is somehow school-related".
He is probably right!
2012-09-05
42 million people online
Skype is indeed still growing: 42 concurrent million people online! But, when will Microsoft allow Skype to publish some more numbers?
- users per country?
- minutes called per continent?
- revenue per paying user?
- total sales?
2012-05-18
Tip of the day: free screen sharing with Skype!
When you are in a video call and you want to share a screen you get the following message:
"You need Skype Premium to share screens", and … you can have a free 7 days trial or buy Skype Premium at once.
But, the following phrase made me curious: “Sharing screens on a video call or a group call is available as part of Skype Premium”. Implicitly, this means that when you are in a normal one to one Skype to Skype voice call WITHOUT VIDEO you still have free screen sharing.
I tried it, here is the result …
No more pop up screen inviting you to pay for Skype Premium, and while calling the other person you still can see HIS (or HER) video! But he or she can’t see you.
Therefore, screen sharing is still free! But Skype doesn’t tell you this in the pop-up screen, of course, business is business!
I tested this with version 5.9.0.114 for Windows.
I tested this with version 5.9.0.114 for Windows.
2012-04-23
41 million people online!
Today, we reached more than 41.5 million concurrent users online.
Probably still related to the Skype for Windows Phone app, that went out of "beta", the new 1.0 version was released!
This is the most phenomenal growth period of the Skype history!
Probably still related to the Skype for Windows Phone app, that went out of "beta", the new 1.0 version was released!
This is the most phenomenal growth period of the Skype history!
2012-04-10
Skype fast growth and Skype for Windows Phone app
It is very evident that we have the fastest period ever in Skype growth, after many months of stagnation, almost 300 days! (See also my post of December 26, Stuck @ 30 million). Thereafter we reached slowly the 31 million people online half January!
And then came the end of February with the release of the Skype for Windows Phone app …
In some weeks we went from 31 million concurrent people online to (yesterday Monday April 10, 2012) 40 million concurrent users online. Very interesting to note also that the 40 million milestone was reached on a day that was a Holiday in quite some countries. As my blog reader Raffaele D'Abrusco correctly noticed, usually there is a drop of concurrent users online when big countries have a Holiday! Well, to be honest, we had also some "record" days on a Sunday the last weeks, same reasoning … quite unusual if we compare with the past history!
And indeed, when we look at the download curve of Skype clients, we see clearly a bent in the download speed from the end of February on, exactly at the moment of the Skype for Windows Phone app release, see graph below!
When will this stop? At the "Summer recession"?
And then came the end of February with the release of the Skype for Windows Phone app …
In some weeks we went from 31 million concurrent people online to (yesterday Monday April 10, 2012) 40 million concurrent users online. Very interesting to note also that the 40 million milestone was reached on a day that was a Holiday in quite some countries. As my blog reader Raffaele D'Abrusco correctly noticed, usually there is a drop of concurrent users online when big countries have a Holiday! Well, to be honest, we had also some "record" days on a Sunday the last weeks, same reasoning … quite unusual if we compare with the past history!
And indeed, when we look at the download curve of Skype clients, we see clearly a bent in the download speed from the end of February on, exactly at the moment of the Skype for Windows Phone app release, see graph below!
When will this stop? At the "Summer recession"?
2012-04-09
40 million people online today
Not much time to blog more today, but, yes, the growth of Skype users goes on!
2012-03-26
1 out of each 177 earth inhabitants online !
38 and 39 million people online today !
Quite amazing growth the last weeks. In less than one month Skype added 6 million concurrent people online! Never seen such a growth!
As Steve Schoen from Hawaii noticed, with a world population of 7,003,003,370 this means that 1 out of 177 people on this planet was running a Skype client on his computer or mobile device (with 39.5 million people online some minutes ago!). Of course, some are running more than one account at the same time, like I often do, but I guess this is a minority!
Quite amazing growth the last weeks. In less than one month Skype added 6 million concurrent people online! Never seen such a growth!
As Steve Schoen from Hawaii noticed, with a world population of 7,003,003,370 this means that 1 out of 177 people on this planet was running a Skype client on his computer or mobile device (with 39.5 million people online some minutes ago!). Of course, some are running more than one account at the same time, like I often do, but I guess this is a minority!
2012-03-12
And it goes on ... 37 million
37.545.575 users online some minutes ago, amazing growth!
In two weeks 5 million milestone crossings: never happened before! Last year, March 28, we were at 30 million, and then nothing for the rest of the year! I complained about it! And since January we added 7 millions!
Amazing, amazing!
In two weeks 5 million milestone crossings: never happened before! Last year, March 28, we were at 30 million, and then nothing for the rest of the year! I complained about it! And since January we added 7 millions!
Amazing, amazing!
2012-03-07
36 Million
Some minutes ago I saw (18:30 GMT) I saw 36.1 million people online on my Skype client ... NOT on the RSS Skype feed (35.871.682 there).
I was mentally too late for the screenshot, a pity!
Growth is going on ... :-)
I was mentally too late for the screenshot, a pity!
Growth is going on ... :-)
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