This statistic presents the usage growth rate for mobile messaging and social apps and total mobile apps worldwide from 2015 to 2016. During the last measured period, usage sessions of messenger and social apps grew by 44 percent year-on-year. Overall app usage sessions grew 11 percent.
Usage growth rate for mobile messaging and social apps and total mobile apps worldwide from 2014 to 2016
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Flurry. (January 12, 2017). Usage growth rate for mobile messaging and social apps and total mobile apps worldwide from 2014 to 2016 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 06, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/303890/annual-global-mobile-messaging-app-growth/
Flurry. "Usage growth rate for mobile messaging and social apps and total mobile apps worldwide from 2014 to 2016." Chart. January 12, 2017. Statista. Accessed December 06, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/303890/annual-global-mobile-messaging-app-growth/
Flurry. (2017). Usage growth rate for mobile messaging and social apps and total mobile apps worldwide from 2014 to 2016. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 06, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/303890/annual-global-mobile-messaging-app-growth/
Flurry. "Usage Growth Rate for Mobile Messaging and Social Apps and Total Mobile Apps Worldwide from 2014 to 2016." Statista, Statista Inc., 12 Jan 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/303890/annual-global-mobile-messaging-app-growth/
Flurry, Usage growth rate for mobile messaging and social apps and total mobile apps worldwide from 2014 to 2016 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/303890/annual-global-mobile-messaging-app-growth/ (last visited December 06, 2023)
Usage growth rate for mobile messaging and social apps and total mobile apps worldwide from 2014 to 2016 [Graph], Flurry, January 12, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/303890/annual-global-mobile-messaging-app-growth/