Data Point: Messenger apps dominate mobile social
According to We Are Social’s latest Digital, Social & Mobile report, three of the Top 5 social platforms globally are instant messenger and chat apps, and eight of these brands now claim more than 100 million monthly active users. Chinese powerhouse Tencent owns two of these, QQ and WeChat, which will only pick up steam as the company pushes into more markets, from Latin America to India, as well as the U.S. Facebook owns two of these as well, Messenger and WhatsApp, which has climbed to 700 million active users since this chart was prepared.
As more and more people around the world come online, many of them by way of mobile devices, messenger apps will increasingly serve as the gateway to a world of friends, goods, news and entertainment.