Slack audience increased by 300 thousand users in 2 months

This week, Slack Messenger has published a quarterly financial report, which reported on 2.3 million daily active users. Two months ago, this number was 2 million, which shows 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. In the applications section of the Slack App Directory, 280 applications are now registered against 150 in December, and the instant messenger sends 1.5 billion messages every month. Despite competition from Microsoft Yammer, Socialware from VMware, Facebook at Work and HipChat from Atlassian, Slack Messenger feels quite confident in the market, given the positive growth trend of the user base.
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Part of the growth of Slack contributes to the excellent optimization for several platforms, along with the launch of assemblies for mobile devices. The support of Slack is similarly stated by the majority of new services that actively use the service API. So, in January, Slack added support for voice and audio calls to Skype, while support for other services never ceases to appear. In the same month, the Slack team was replenished with several specialists in artificial intelligence . Subsequently, the company can use these practices to create advanced bots in chat rooms.

Since the company was founded in 2009 and investments in the amount of $ 160 million have been received, Slack has already been valued at $ 2.8 billion last year, and the company has 369 employees. Slack Corporate Messenger has become very popular among users associated with the IT industry in the past two years since its launch in 2014. Over time, Slack has become a flexible platform that allows you to connect third-party services, as well as integrate into the business.