200 million downloads
By
Jaanus on November 8, 2005 in News, events, milestones.
This morning, Skype hit 200 million downloads. To celebrate, we made a picture. Set it as your own picture too 
(Right-click on the picture, click "Save Picture As..." and save it somewhere, and then set it as My Picture in your Skype.)
Update: here's another version that works even better in Skype.
Some fun facts about our downloads. Skype download infrastructure is quite massive and cool -- thumbs up to those who maintain it around the clock.
* At peak time, we're pumping out close to 10 downloads a second. That's almost a million downloads every single day by now. Not quite a million every day yet, but we're getting there.
* The download traffic at peak time adds up to 500 Mbit/sec, or 0.5 Gbit/sec. That's 500 times more than an average 1 Mbit home "broadband" connection.
* We got from 0 to 100M downloads in 595 days, from 100M to 150M in 124 days, from 150M to 200M in 83 days. There's no signs of the pace slowing down.
* Take all of the figures with a grain of salt, since obviously not every download is completed and ends with an installation. But it's still cool.
Comments
NO.1 This is GoodNews !
sega1014 | Tuesday, Nov 8
Skype, an excellent communication tool ever produced on free of cost. Great product. Simply superb
justinjerald | Tuesday, Nov 8
My congratulations to Skype Team!
I wish you to get 300 Million in this year
Good luck!!!
dvandreev | Tuesday, Nov 8
They said email was the technological revoultion of our generation. They said this would be it for now. They thought there was no way to further then internet revolution.
They were wrong.
Skype is becoming the email of today, and the traditional phone is in decline. Very few of my friends have landline phones.
Congratulations on 200million, here's to reaching 500m!
(http://aliya05.blogspot.com)
yosefsilver | Tuesday, Nov 8
Awesome! Can't wait for the next 100 million!.
sonicguy756 | Tuesday, Nov 8
Fantastic new Jaanus!
Phil of http://www.phil-taylor.com
prazgod | Wednesday, Nov 9
Fine!
Only from a site «Skype in Russia» ( http://www.skypeclub.ru/ ) we have about 3 thousand downloads in a week!
And this number constantly increases!
gorbarsky | Wednesday, Nov 9
Yes, my french blog http://skype-me.vnunetblog.fr/
reports this nice information !
france-echo | Wednesday, Nov 9
Another fun fact:
200 million downloads (and that's not users, that's downloads, i've downloaded it ~5 times what with upgrades and reinstalls)
2.6 billion dollars
ebay paid an amazingly unbelievable 13,000.00 dollars PER DOWNLOAD.
i dont know what you guys did to the ebay acquisitions team, but i do know this: whatever the heck you guys slipped into their coffee at the meeting has got to be VERY VERY illegal stuff.
Valis
http://www.valissoft.com
valiskeogh | Wednesday, Nov 16
I first tried to post this in Facts & Figures so please forgive if it ends up there too as a cross-post.
I'm curious when the dormant RSS feeds are going to be live again? Stats hasn't been updated since Sunday and both the Extras and Developer blog feeds haven't been live since 04 Oct.
Skype Facts & Figures
http://share.skype.com/stats_rss.xml
Last updated: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:26:09 +0100
Skype Extras Gallery Feed
http://share.skype.com/extras.xml
Last updated: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:10:03 +0100
Skype Developer Blog Feed
http://share.skype.com/sdpblog.xml
Last updated: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:10:04 +0100
Thanks,
Gary
garyweir | Wednesday, Nov 23