LINE – 23 Amazing Stats and Facts

1. What does LINE do:
   • LINE is a messaging app which brings day-to-day convenience to users through the connection of people, information, and services. It is the cornerstone of Line which provides wide range of mobile-first services including communication, content and entertainment & advertising.

2. Initial release year: March 2012
3. Headquarters: Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, Japan
4. Company name: LINE Corporation
5. Parent organization: Naver Corporation
6. Number of LINE employees: 5811
7. Total Number of Languages LINE Available in: 17 languages
8. Overall revenue: 2.1 Billion USD
9. Total funding raised: 1 Billion USD
10. Key Market area for LINE app: Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia.
11. LINE users in their 4 key countries: 167 million monthly active users
12. Countries that LINE has users in: 230 Countries
13. Active users per month: 84 million per month
14. Japan active LINE users: 86 million
15. Official LINE accounts: 13.38 million
16. Ads impressions: 76.76 Billion
17. Downloads on Google Play: 500 million
18. Pay global monthly active users: 10,000
19. Pay global transaction volume: 459 Billion Yen
20. acquisitions: LINE has acquired 7 companies and GrayHash was its latest acquisition on December 2018
21. Top 5 LINE competitors: Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp, Kaka and Telegram
22. Line History: In March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan’s telecommunications infrastructure nationwide. To help employees in NHN Japan, engineers in South Korea’s NHN Corporation developed Line, later they released the app for public use in June 2011

+ One interesting news:

LINE Corporation today announced the launch of LINE BK, the first “social banking” platform in Thailand.