Comments on: With an IPO on Its Mind, Skype Shows Growth

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By: chris

chris — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:48:47 +0000

SkypeOut minutes have been running at 12 – 13% of Skype-to-Skype minutes, at least through 2008.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:25:23 +0000

John

In hindsight I agree. I will try to do better job next time. (PS: See the VMWare post and I already have taken your advise to heart.)

By: John

John — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:08:28 +0000

Please, every time you put a picture or a chart in a blog post link it to a higher dimension image.

It’s illegible as it is.

Thank you.

By: Krishna Baidya

Krishna Baidya — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:17:15 +0000

kudos to skype on its growth … of course it is adding muscle to its current status and probably have good (financial) impact on its future (whatever course it chooses).

will be keen to see a in depth analysis on its monetizing strategy …. don’t you think $153.2 million in quarterly revenue from 443.2 million registered users is not that impressive after all.

By: ajay

ajay — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:09:57 +0000

interesting. does anyone know

a) how many minutes are skype to skype —> a good % of that is what they have taken out of the voice market, and cannot monetize
b) length of average conversation, skype to skype vs. skype to skypeOut. curious about the impact of free….
c) number of skype to skype calls with video…

ajay

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:13:32 +0000

julien

sorry about that. it was fourth quarter of 2008. not first quarter of 2008.

By: julien

julien — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:53:22 +0000

Also, you mentioned $145M of revenue in Q1 2008, it was actually $126M (cf the graph you posted).

By: julien

julien — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:51:01 +0000

FYI, note that Skype grew revenue 38% yoy, net of foreign exchange impact