Teleconference Apps Are Mushrooming Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Anil - Mar 20, 2020

However, the corresponding financial benefits are not on par with the user base growth.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to the temporary closing of schools and offices across the globe. Reasonably, the number of downloads of business apps has increased nearly fivefold. The list of most-downloaded apps includes Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams, and Slack while Chinese companies tend to use WeChat Work or Tencent Conference.

Zoom Meeting coronavirus — Zoom now is the most-downloaded teleconference app.

According to data compiled by Sensor Tower, Google Play Store and App Store have seen the figure jumped from 1.4 million to 6.7 million in terms of new users, as of early March. The disease outbreak had reached its peak, resulting in the surging demands of tools for online conferences and meetings while employees are asked to work from home amidst the coronavirus scare.

coronavirus work from home — The disease outbreak had reached its peak, resulting in the surging demands of tools for online conferences.

Google Hangouts Meet and Zoom are considered the most popular choices for users as it enables them to keep in touch with ease and make telework more yielding.

More interestingly, a few newer services like Spatial and Rumii even create digital meeting rooms for people to see and interact with colleagues through their digitized, 3D versions.

Rumii Vr coronavirus — Rumii allows people to interact with others' 3D versions.

According to data from Apptopia, Zoom Inc. has grown 67% in terms of daily active users since January. However, analysts predict that it doesn't mean all business apps would gain a corresponding financial benefit from the surging demand. For example, Zoom once admitted the number of users shifting to use paid services is not on par at all.

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