{"id":650380,"date":"2013-04-03T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=412280"},"modified":"2013-04-03T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:50:44","slug":"skype-seems-miles-behind-whatsapp-on-daily-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650380","title":{"rendered":"Skype seems miles behind WhatsApp on daily engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/03\/skype-2-billion-minutes-analysis-412280\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/skype_logo_online.jpg?w=650&amp;h=288&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Skype 2 Billion Minutes\" title=\"Skype\" \/><\/a><\/center>Skype just announced proudly that its users spend 2 billion minutes a day on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/skype\">Skype<\/a> calls. It&#8217;s a big achievement, for sure&#8230; but considering how long Skype has been around, it&#8217;s also somewhat underwhelming. According to company comments from 2011, the average video call length was 27 minutes. If we estimate that the average Skype call including both voice and video calling is closer to 20 minutes, the 2 billion minutes a day figure would translate roughly to 100 million calls per day.\u00a0This sounds decent enough \u2014 except that a cluster of mobile messaging app companies that debuted just a couple of years ago have already\u00a0moved far beyond that level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/03\/skype-2-billion-minutes-analysis-412280\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/TfOznz3qmqk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype just announced proudly that its users spend 2 billion minutes a day on Skype calls. It&#8217;s a big achievement, for sure&#8230; but considering how long Skype has been around, it&#8217;s also somewhat underwhelming. According to company comments from 2011, the average video call length was 27 minutes. If we estimate that the average Skype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}