Skype’s Growth Slowing Down

January 31, 2007 by Ty | 0 Comments

Yesterday Skype reached 9 million peak concurrent users. Read more about it at on the Skype Blog. But despite the new record, growth does seem to be slowing considerably. I have mentioned before that peak concurrent users is not the only criteria to asses growth but it is certainly the easiest metric to access.

Blogger Jean Mercier has been recording the number of days it takes to add each additional 1 million users. Plotting his data on a time-line and running a regression analysis shows the peak concurrent users are growing linearly rather than exponentially. This is not great news for Skype as it implies that absolute growth rates are falling.skype