NEW HOPE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MeetMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), the public market leader for social discovery, set new records on Tuesday of this week for the number of daily active users (DAU) on mobile overall and on Android specifically. For the first time in MeetMe’s history, more than 900,000 unique mobile users logged in on a single day.
“We’re thrilled to have achieved 924,000 mobile users logging into MeetMe, with a record 567,000 of those on Android,” said MeetMe CEO Geoff Cook. “We believe our new Chat features – Friends Suggestions and Icebreakers – have driven much of this growth, while increasing total friend requests and the number of new, high quality chats among our members. In addition, overall Chat activity has increased by more than 60% since the enhancements we made in April. We believe our exciting pipeline of new features will make MeetMe the best app for finding new chat partners, and thereby enable us to continue the strong DAU growth we are seeing on mobile.”
About MeetMe, Inc.
MeetMe® is the leading social network for meeting new people in the US and the public market leader for social discovery (NASDAQ: MEET). MeetMe makes meeting new people fun through social games and apps, monetized by both advertising and virtual currency. With approximately 75 percent of traffic coming from mobile, MeetMe is fast becoming the social gathering place for the mobile generation. The company operates MeetMe.com and MeetMe apps on iPhone, iPad, and Android in multiple languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Turkish and Korean. For more information, please visit meetmecorp.com.
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Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including whether in the future we will achieve increased numbers of mobile daily active users (DAUs) overall or on Android specifically, whether our new Chat features will drive growth in DAU, friend requests, or new, high quality chats among our members, whether our overall Chat activity will increase, whether our pipeline of new features will make MeetMe the best app for finding Chat partners, and whether we will achieve strong DAU growth on mobile. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained herein are forward-looking statements. The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “project,” “is likely,” “will,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements include the risk that our applications will not function easily or otherwise as anticipated, the risk that we will not launch additional features and upgrades as anticipated, the risk that unanticipated events affect the functionality of our applications with popular mobile operating systems, any changes in such operating systems that degrade our mobile applications’ functionality and other unexpected issues which could adversely affect usage on mobile devices. Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
