The global monthly popularity of the Internet messenger ICQ (owned by Mail.Ru Group) according to the financial report of Mail.Ru as of June 2013 was 12.3 million users, of which 7.9 million were runet users.
In June 2012, the worldwide monthly popularity of ICQ reached 20.5 million people, a decrease of 40% for the year. As for ICQ fans in runet, as of June last year, their popularity reached 10.8 million users, which represents a decrease of 26.9% over the past year.
This fall in the number of monthly users is not recorded for the first year. E.g. in the period from June 2011 to June 2012, this indicator decreased by 30% both in runet and in the world. Moreover, according to the results of the company’s report for 2012, the global monthly popularity of ICQ decreased by 41% from December 2011 to December 2012 to 15.9 million users, and among runet fans by 37.6% to 9.8 million people.
According to the company’s information, the global monthly popularity of ICQ in June 2009 was 47.3 million users. Which means that within 4 years, the number of users in the world has decreased by almost 4 times.
Mail.Ru Group also owns another messenger “Agent”, its global popularity decreased by 5.5% for the year and, according to information, as of June this year, it amounted to 20.7 million users compared to 21.9 million users in June 2012.
Source: primmarketing.ru
