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Facebook Messenger Jumps to 500M Users

Facebook has announced that monthly active users of its Messenger app have jumped to 500 million, a 150% increase in reported user figures since April this year. Although Facebook’s methods for driving usage of the app have been controversial – mobile users have been forced to download the Messenger app if they want to use Facebook’s chat […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tuneup #148

Line’s short film #AADC2014 goes viral Ada apa dengan cinta (“What’s up with Love”) was a hit 2002 romantic drama film in Indonesia that saw a mini sequel on YouTube last week, thanks to Line. The video was meant to promote Line’s Alumni feature where long lost friends can reconnect. It garnered over 2.6 million […]

The Best Digital/Social Agency in the World

Celebrations are aplenty here at the We Are Social office. After having picked up the Holmes Report’s EMEA Digital Agency of the Year and Best Multinational Agency to Work For accolades back in May, we were delighted to hear a short time ago that we also picked up the publication’s award for the ‘‘Best Digital/Social […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tuneup #147

WhatsApp remains top messaging app in India For the first time, a billion people in India are going online using their smartphones. Messaging apps like Hike and WeChat have started advertising early to gain the attention of this growing smartphone crowd in India. Hike announced that it reached 35 million registered users in August, at […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tuneup #146

Tencent invested US $20M into Blink, a service similar to Snapchat In addition to the investment into US based Snapchat last year, Tencent has made US $20 million investment into Chinese native service Blink this year. The service is similar to Snapchat. Tencent has been actively looking for a new kind of service that appeals […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tuneup #145

Line has reached 30 million users in India Line has been growing rapidly in Asia recently. According to the Japan-based company that runs the popular service, Line has just reached 30 million users in India. This is compared to the 10 million it reached in October of last year. In order to increase its fan base on a […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tuneup #144

Line announces slew of new services After news last week that Line will offer a personal finance app by Spring 2015, the company’s COO has announced at the Line Conference Tokyo 2014 that it is offering even more services. Driven by the company’s vision to become “the smartphone gateway for your life”, Line is offering […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tuneup #143

Messaging app Line to launch a personal finance tracking service Japanese messaging app, Line, is reportedly launching a new service that would help their users track their personal finances by spring 2015. Users will be able to add their bank’s official account to the friend list and verify a bank account. They will then receive […]

We Are Social Asia Midweek Mashup #139

Singapore’s BCF encourages social media platforms to join their campaign With the tagline “If only you checked your breasts as often,” the Breast Cancer Foundation of Singapore launched an online campaign to appeal to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to use their version of logos next month to support the Breast Cancer Awareness month in October. “Together we’re […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tuneup #142

BBC news available on the messaging app Line Users can now read the BBC news using messaging app Line. According to Line, the official BBC account (@BBCnews) has over 151,000 followers from 11 countries – Australia, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, India, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the United States. The service is currently […]

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