LINE Surpasses 400 Million Registered Users

LINE, the instant messaging app from Japan, has announced that it reached 400 million registered users, after hitting the 300 million mark in November last year.  Since the launch of the LINE service on June 23, 2011, the app has become into a global communications app that lets users communicate through voice and video calls as well as stickers and text messages.


According to Akira Morikawa, CEO of LINE Corporation, one of the company's goals for 2014 was to reach over 500 million users. "Today we’ve been able reach the milestone of 400 million. I’d like to thank all our users and supporters for their help so far", he said.

The company is still increasing its user numbers in countries such as North America and Europe adding to the already large user bases in Spain, Southeast Asia, and other countries. The amount of daily new users reached a record-breaking number of around 1.7 million per day, indicating rapid growth worldwide.

This trend has continued and just 4 months after the last milestone of 300 million users, the amount of LINE users worldwide surpassed 400 million on April 1. Since the start of the new year the amount of countries with over 10 million registered users rose to a total of 10, including America, Korea, Malaysia, and Mexico.

Along with the rising number of users, the amount of communication made through LINE has also skyrocketed. Since the start of 2014, records have been set for the daily usage of chat messages (10 billion/day), sticker messages (1.8 billion/day), and phone calls (over 12 million/day).

"Along with the rapid proliferation of smartphones, the level of competition in the global communications app market has become fiercer than ever, and is only intensifying every day. We believe that this shows that messaging services have become the crux of our mobile society, and demonstrates their incredible worth", Morikawa add.