Profiling The Mobile Messaging App User Where Mainstream Mobile Users Are Heading
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The 20,000 Foot View
With mobile messaging platforms playing an ever more crucial role in the distribution of mobile experiences, it is imperative that marketers, brands, and strategy teams develop deep familiarity with the characteristics and behaviours of messaging app users. Despite many commonalities with overall mobile users, there are also marked differences and nuances such as increased affinity for video, apps and mobile spending. Together these facets give us an indication of the direction in which the mobile mainstream audience is evolving.
Key Findings
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of mobile consumers use a messaging app monthly
of messaging app users are years old, are female
of messaging app users watch videos on YouTube compared to of mobile users
of messaging app users spend no weekly time on mobile apps compared to of mobile users
- Despite more messaging app users running on Android, spending habits of the segment are in line with that of iOS
- Messaging app users are more comfortable to regularly spend money on apps than mobile users
- Messaging app users are the more sophisticated sub-segment of the mobile mainstream audiences
- The messaging app user segment provides a glimpse of the direction in which mainstream mobile audiences are evolving
Companies mentioned in this report: Amazon, Android, Apple, Candy Crush, Facebook, Gmail, Google, Instagram, iOS, Netflix, Snapchat, Spotify, Twitter WhatsApp, YouTube