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ICQ Celebrates 100 Million Registered Users
URL(s): ICQ.com
Fun Communication Features, State-of-the-Art Wireless
Service and Global Reach Offer More Reasons to Join the
World's Most Popular Online Community
Every Second a New Registrant Signs Up For ICQ
Averaging More Than 100,000 New Registrants Daily
ICQ ("I Seek You"), the world's most popular online
communications community and international service from
America Online, Inc., today announced that it has reached
100 million registered users worldwide.
The number of registered users has grown rapidly from
zero to 100 million in just over four years, all through viral marketing and word-of-mouth.
ICQ attributes its explosive growth and success to several factors, including its pioneering role in
offering the first Internet instant messaging software, its heritage of offering consumers the most
communications features, and maintaining a unique experience for its users.
Since its acquisition by America Online in 1998, ICQ's user base has grown ten times while the
company has continually expanded and improved its product offering always with the needs and
desires of the ICQ user community at the center.
"What makes ICQ unique is that it has fostered a strong, vast, international community of people
who are enthusiastic about what the Web has to offer - with the key being tuning-in to how people
want to communicate," said Ariel Yarnitsky, co-general manager of ICQ.
"ICQ has done an extraordinary job of delivering innovative services and technologies people
want and packaging them in a fun, easy-to-use environment. We've built a solid product that
appeals to a worldwide audience, and continue to enhance and evolve ICQ's functionalities as our
user base continues to grow."
"ICQ's unprecedented growth attests to how integral it has become to so many people's lives,"
said ICQ founders Sefi Vigiser, Arik Vardi and Yair Goldfinger. "We are thrilled with ICQ's
success and wish to extend our gratitude to all of the people and users who have helped establish
ICQ as the biggest and best online communication community in the world."
ICQ FACTS
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More than 10 million ICQ users login every day
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On days when connected to ICQ, users spend an average
of 3
hours on the service
-- 100,000 new users join ICQ every day on average
-- ICQ is available on the desktop, as well as via PDA's and cellular phones
-- In addition to instant messaging ICQ also offers ICQmail, ICQphone, ICQ Groups, ICQ
Surf, ICQ White Pages and more
-- ICQ was the first service on the Internet to reach 1 billion monthly usage hours (January 2001)
-- ICQ consistently maintains its rating as the most downloaded program on CNET's
download.com, with nearly 150 million total downloads
ICQ is wholly owned by America Online, Inc. ICQ was created in 1996 by the Israel-based
company, Mirabilis, and acquired by AOL in 1998. ICQ is the world's largest communications
community with 100 million registered users worldwide.
ICQ offers the most robust instant messaging and enhanced communications features in the
market today. The product is available for free at ICQ.com.
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