Techcrunch reports that Facebook is preparing to allow brands and businesses to solicit business using Facebook Messenger, which currently boasts 800 million active users. The news comes from a leaked document which Facebook has reportedly sent to major advertisers, suggesting that the new feature may be introduced in the second quarter this year. Businesses will […]
Facebook has announced that the Facebook Messenger standalone app has reached 500m users. That’s fairly impressive, it’s true. But it’s less impressive compared to over a billion users who access the social network every month from mobile devices. They’re using Facebook, but they’re not all using Messenger. There’s been a vocal pushback against the unbundling of Messenger […]
Yesterday we published the Ipsos MRBI’s infographic of their latest Social Networking Quarterly Survey of Ireland. They also published the Social Messaging Quarterly Survey, with similarly interesting results. Of 1000 people aged 15 and over, 50% have a Skype account; yet only 7% of them use it daily. Viber, Whatsapp and Snapchat have all shown steady growth over the past […]
