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This week, AOL is pulling the plug on Instant Messenger (AIM), its iconic messaging service that was originally launched in 1997. On the eve of AIM’s sunset, Verto Analytics takes a look at [...]

Facebook Messenger and Kik rolled out new group video chat features this week - is group video chat the new frontier for attracting engaged users?

The past year has been a tumultuous one in tech, politics, and media. Verto Analytics illustrated the data behind six movers and shakers in 2016; first, we’re focusing on app use (among U.S. [...]

Earlier this month, Verto Analytics launched in the UK, with new insights on the UK’s digital consumer market. This week, we took a look at some of the biggest brands in the UK and identified a [...]

You may have a distribution problem. For anyone thinking about building a chatbot for any other platform besides Facebook Messenger, there are some serious challenges in how to distribute the bot [...]

Messaging apps are an increasingly important part of the app ecosystem. As of July 2016, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp both claim a user base of more than a billion worldwide, and that number [...]

We’ve just returned from the annual MobileBeat conference in San Francisco, where chatbots took center stage. They also raise a major question: are chatbots the next revolution in internet-based [...]

Bots are big news these days. But the so-called “rise of the bots” is closely intertwined with the messaging apps that many bots are built upon. So who's got the most engaging messaging app on [...]

Yesterday, on the first day of its annual F8 conference, Facebook revealed the initial portion of its ten-year product roadmap. Here’s what’s clear: Facebook is dedicated to building a world [...]

Our Messaging App Index released in July raised great interest, as it showed how our data can be used to track the total market and competition around messaging apps. The data revealed that [...]