Generally speaking, one of the toughest things for a social network to do successfully is turn a profit. We have seen so many of them struggle over the years to monetize their seemingly successful venture. It is always a delicate balancing game of user experience and privacy versus profitability and only those that are the most creative tend to survive.

These profitability issues don’t seem to translate to social chat as a number of them have done quite well monetizing user activity and participation.

One of the more successful social chat app companies in terms of revenue generation is Japan’s LINE (not a typo, they spell it in all caps). Through a creative combination of sticker sales and a bunch of interconnected mobile apps and games, LINE has been able to grow quickly and profitably.

As with many of its Asia-Pacific chat app counterparts, LINE is growing very quickly and is spread well past its native domicile. If you haven’t heard of LINE yet, you will and marketers should absolutely take note.

Here is a start; here is a collection of the most interesting statistics I could dig up on LINE. As always, there will be updates in the future….

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This report is a digital collection of the most interesting LINE statistics I have curated over the years as of May 2018. 65 of them including stats for:

Users
Stickers
Revenue
Etc.- all in one place

I try to go through each and every stat regularly and update as much as possible, but we all know that some stats are easier to track down than others. As always, every stat is linked to its original source and has the source date listed.

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Bundle 1: Messaging app reports (WhatsApp, WeChat, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, Skype, QQ, Kik, Viber and LINE).

Please note that some of these numbers are easier to find than others. A few of these stats come from LINE’s own reports, but some are based on news reports and not official company tallies. Basically, this is the best I can find and I don’t guarantee anything to be 100% accurate.

LINE Facts

LINE Website: line.me
LINE Launch Year: 2011
LINE Owner: Naver
LINE Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
What is LINE?

LINE Corporation is based in Japan. It was renamed from NHN Japan Corporation on April 1, 2013, and operates the LINE, NAVER matome, and livedoor web service businesses. Since launching LINE in June 2011, LINE Corporation has placed the core of its business upon the service and actively pushed for the further expansion of the service on a global scale, as well as accelerating the development of LINE as a platform. (source)