Hello again Jallen62,
Below you will find the results of my research regarding Instant Messaging.
?2004 Pew Internet & American Life surveys reveal that more than four
in ten online Americans instant message (IM). That reflects about 53
million American adults who use instant messaging programs. About 11
million of them IM at work and they are becoming fond of its capacity
to encourage productivity and interoffice cooperation.?
Source:
How Americans Use Instant Messaging
September 2004
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/133/report_display.asp
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Most popular IM Services
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In July 2004, this is how the IM universe broke down, according to
comScore Media Metrix measurements:
AOL Instant Message
?AOL Instant Message (the proprietary service to AOL subscribers) was
used by 37% of those who traded IMs during the month. On a typical day
during the month more than 5.7 million IM-ers were using this
application.?
Yahoo! Messenger
?Yahoo! Messenger was used by 33% of those who traded IMs during the month.
This was the single most popular service used at work and the average
user of the application spent 423 minutes using the application during
the month ? the highest total among the applications.?
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM Service)
?AOL Instant Messenger (AIM Service) was used by 31% of those who traded IMs
during the month. This application had the greatest reach among
college students and on any given day there were nearly 6 million
people using the application, making it the most popular application
on a typical day.?
MSN Messenger
?MSN Messenger Applications were used by 25% of those who traded IMs during the
month.?
ICQ
?ICQ was used by 6% of those who traded IMs during the month.?
PalTalk
?PalTalk was used by 1% of those who traded IMs during the month.?
Trillian
?Trillian was used by 1% of those who traded IMs during the month.?
Note: see page 14: IM users and the most popular applications
Download or read full text of this informative report here. (28 pages)
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Instantmessage_Report.pdf
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IM Market to Reach $2.4B by 2007
?IDC reports in a recent press release that the worldwide market for
instant messaging will reach $2.4B in 2007, a doubling of the current
market size.?
?The strongest growth will come from instant messaging, instant
messaging management, and presence applications, whose revenue is
expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30% from
2002-2007."
Number of Users
AOL had 28 million users on its chat service last year.
MSN reported 20.7 users
Yahoo! 14.3 users
ICQ 9.1 million users
Corante Tech News: December 2003
http://www.streamingsuccess.com/ad-mass.php
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Strong Growth
?Late last month The Radicati Group sent a statistical brief to its
clients that forecasted very strong growth in the instant messaging
market and in the market for the IM management products that support
use of this important messaging technology in enterprise
environments.?
?According to the Palo Alto, Calif-based research firm, the market for
enterprise IM will grow by 40% next year, and will continue to grow at
that rate for at least the next four years.?
Messaging Pipeline: Diciembre 06, 2004
http://www.messagingpipeline.com/trends/trends_archive/54800577
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?Nearly 60% of residential Internet service subscribers are also users
of an instant messaging service, according to a new study from J.D.
Power and Associates. Although instant messaging usage is highest
among 18- to 24-year-olds (82% subscribe to an IM service), its
popularity remains high even among Internet subscribers over 45, with
54% using an IM service. 64% of women say they use an instant
messaging service, compared to 53% of men. Among instant messaging
services, Yahoo and MSN's services rate particularly high with
subscribers.?
IT Facts: Oct 05, 04
http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P1704
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Corporate instant messaging
?Corporate instant messaging will experience a phenomenal growth rate
over the coming years, which will compound the problem of SPIM. Ferris
Research predicts that the business IM market will grow by 130 percent
from 2002 to 2003, and a further 85 percent from 2003 to 2004,
representing a compound annual growth rate of 79 percent by 2007.?
Projected Growth of Business IM
2002 10 million
2003 23 million
2004 43 million
2005 78 million
2006 126 million
2007 182 million
Source: Ferris Research
IM Spam Expected to Triple
A new and growing form of spam is making its way to desktops
everywhere. It's called spim - spam over instant messaging.
?The Radicati Group estimates that SPIM will account for roughly 5
percent of instant messages traversing public networks (consumer and
corporate) by the end of 2004, tripling from 400 million messages in
2003 to 1.2 billion.?
Clickz: March 29, 2004
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/software/article.php/3331981
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Consumer Craze
"IM by and large to date has been a consumer phenomenon," explains
Nate Root, senior analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. "It has been something that people have adopted to chat
with their friends and their relatives and it's something that has
been accidentally co-opted for use within companies."
?The most popular consumer platforms for chatting are America Online's
Instant Messenger, Microsoft's Instant Messenger, and Yahoo's Instant
Messenger.?
?In the enterprise market, Microsoft and IBM and the top two providers
of IM solutions. The former offers its SharePoint Services
Collaboration platform with an IM client that integrates with its
Office Suite, while IBM has its Lotus Instant Messaging and Web
Conferencing, formerly known as Lotus Sametime.?
?Throughout September and October 2003, Forrester surveyed about 1000
companies to see what their purchasing plans were for IM in 2004. Root
says 25 percent of these companies already had some sort of IM up and
running; about 50 percent didn't have any plans or didn't know what
the company's plans were; and the remaining 25 percent were
considering purchasing or piloting an IM product in 2004. Two-thirds
of these companies had annual revenues greater than $1 billion, while
the remaining 33 percent had annual revenues between $500 million to
$1 billion.?
Read the complete article here:
PC World: January 19, 2004
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114322,00.asp
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?The number of people using instant messaging (IM) software at work is
set soar over the next few years, as part of a wider boom that will
see more than a trillion IMs sent worldwide each day by 2006,
according to the latest research?
"Today, a growing number of IM users believe that following in the
footsteps of phone and e-mail, IM is fast approaching worldwide
adoption, and will soon be an integral part of instantaneous
inter-personal communications," said the report, titled Instant
Messaging and Presence Market Trends, 2003-2007.
The Radicati Group predicts that there will be a total of 1,439
million IM accounts in existence by 2007, compared to 590 million IM
accounts in 2003. This will send the number of instant messages sent
per day soaring, from 582 billion per day at present to 1,380 billion
per day by 2007.
The most significant growth will come in the corporate sector, where
The Radicati Group forecasts an increase of almost 600 percent, from
60 million accounts today to 349 million in 2007.?
ZDNet: June 12, 2003
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-1016231.html
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I hope this information is helpful.
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
