Slack audience has grown by 300 thousand users in 2 months



    This week, the Slack messenger published a quarterly financial report in which it reported on 2.3 million daily active users. Two months ago, this number was 2 million, which demonstrates an excellent upward trend.

    The number of paid users is 675 thousand compared to 570 thousand in December last year and now they generate $ 64 million in annual revenue. 280 applications are now registered in the Slack App Directory applications section, compared to 150 in December, and the messenger sends 1.5 billion messages every month. Despite competing with Microsoft Yammer, Socialcast from VMware, Facebook at Work and Atlassian HipChat, the Slack messenger feels quite confident in the market, taking into account the positive trend of the user base growth.

    Part of the growth of Slack is due to excellent optimization across several platforms along with the launch of assemblies for mobile devices. Most of the new services that actively use the service API similarly declare support for Slack. So, in January , support for voice and audio calls in Skype appeared in Slack , and support for other services does not stop appearing. In the same month, the Slack team was replenished with several specialists in artificial intelligence . Subsequently, the company can use these developments to create advanced chat bots.

    Since the foundation of the company in 2009 and receipt$ 160 million investment last year Slack was already valued at $ 2.8 billion, and the company had 369 employees. The Slack corporate messenger has become very popular among users associated with the IT industry in the last two years since its launch in 2014. Over time, Slack has evolved into a flexible platform that allows you to connect third-party services, as well as integrate into your business.

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