Market Share of There Global Instant Messaging Providers
According to the global statistics, as far as the user data for August 2006 is concerned, MSN had 185 million users worldwide, ranking the top in the instant messaging market, followed by Yahoo users of 82.1 million in the second place and AOL only had 61.2 million users. From the statistics, we can see that the three major global instant messaging products providers have different focuses in terms of market strategies. AOL pays more attention to the market development within the US, with 80% users being domestic users, while Yahoo and MSN are more focused on international market exploration, with only 27% of all Yahoo users being those inside the US and only 13% of all MSN users being domestic US users. Learn more about instant messaging industry in China please read iResearch China Instant Messaging Market Research Report 2006.
