Bangkok--18 Jan--Spark Communications
1. Registered User Numbers
- Japan: 41.51 million, Thailand: 12.27 million, Taiwan 11.83 million, Other countries: 34.39 million.
- Ratio of Japan : Other Countries = 4:6
2. Top 5 countries (in order of highest user numbers)
- Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Spain
3. Countries and regions where LINE has been ranked no.1 at App Store/Google Play (in the free apps categories)
- Asia
Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Bahrain, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman
- Europe
Russia, Belarus, Spain, Switzerland, Latvia
- North America
Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras
- South America
Ecuador, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay
- Africa
Mali, Angola
- Oceania
Papua New Guinea
4. Frequency of Use
- Monthly Active User:80.3% (as of end of December 2012)
5. Maximum number of registrations/day
- 600, 000 registrations (recorded on 16 December 2012)
6. Awards
- iTunes BEST OF 2012: No.1 in Top Free category (Japan)
- iF DESIGN AWARDS 2013: Cross-Media Advertising Award
- GOOD DESIGN GOLD AWARD 2012
- 2012 Shogakukan Dime Trend Award
- BEST TEAM OF THE YEAR 2012
- The 17th AMD Award: Digital Contents of the Year ‘11
- Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun: Nikkei Superior Products Service Award 2012
- Nikkei MJ Hit Products 2012
- Nikkei Trendy: Hit Products of 2012: No.2 out of 30
- Top Worldwide in Non-Game Apps by Monthly Revenues for iOS/Google Play (November 2012)
- elEconomista: Nominated for Best Technology Award 2012 (Spain)
- EL PAIS: Nominated for Best Trend of 2012 (Spain)
7. Information on LINE related apps
- No. of apps available: 24 (excluding web apps)
- Download total: over 100 million
8. Global ranking of popular stickers
History of LINE
Date Information
Jun 2011 LINE Service released
Jul 2011 Reached the no.1 spot in the Free Apps section of the App Store
Sep 2011 1 million users achieved
Oct 2011 Release of free Voice Call and Sticker features
Nov 2011 5 million users achieved
Nov 2011 Broadcast of TV commercial in Japan (broadcast until mid-January 2012)
Dec 2011 10 million users achieved
Feb 2012 Broadcast of TV commercial in Taiwan(broadcast until mid-April 2012)
Mar 2012 20 million users achieved
Mar 2012 Release of PC and smart-tablet Browser versions
Mar 2012 Awarded the ‘Digital Contents of the Year Award 2011’ at the 17th Annual
AMD Excellence Awards
Mar 2012 Release of ‘LINE Card’
Apr 2012 Release of ‘LINE Camera’
Apr 2012 30 million users achieved
Apr 2012 Opening of the Sticker Shop
May 2012 Release of Official Accounts of famous celebrities
May 2012 Support of Indonesian, Malay, Thai, and Turkish languages.
May 2012 Awarded the ‘Mobile Project Award 2012’ at the Mobile Platform Solutions
Division’s Excellence Awards
Jun 2012 Release of Windows? Phone version
Jun 2012 Release of Official Accounts for businesses
Jul 2012 Release of ‘LINE Birzzle’ and ‘LINE Birzzle PLUS’
Jul 2012 50 million users achieved
Jul 2012 Release of ‘LINE Brush’
Aug 2012 Release of ‘Home’ and ‘Timeline’ services in LINE Channel
Aug 2012 Release of BlackBerry version
Aug 2012 Release of ‘LINE Coin’ and ‘LINE Coupon’
Nov 2012 Release of LINE Games(LINE POP, LINE Cartoon Wars, LINE Homerun Battle Burst, LINE PATAPOKO ANIMAL
Nov 2012 Facebook Verification Function Introduced
Dec 2012 80 million users achieved
Dec 2012 Release of ‘LINE Tools’
Dec 2012 Free calling feature added to the PC Version of LINE
Dec 2012 Release of community service ‘LINE Caf?’
Dec 2012 Release of Windows 8 OS version
Dec 2012 Release of LINE Paladog, LINE Bubble, LINE IceQpick, LINE ZOOKEEPER
Jan 2013 Release of ‘LINE Birzzle Friends’
Jan 2013 Release of ‘LINE Antivirus’ (Android version)
Jan 2013 100 million users achieved