Everything is changing globally. With the advent of technology you can find that the number of messenger Apps available for Android and iOS have increased to a good extent. Now Hike Messenger App has become the most downloaded App not only on Google Play Store, but also on iOS App Store. Becoming the top downloaded free App is a big achievement which Hike messenger has got. This success and popularity of Hike Messenger will definitely increase the competition among the messenger Apps in India.
I’m really happy with the success and increasing popularity of Hike Messenger, as this App is developed by an Indian company. Hike Messenger is developed by Bharti SoftBank, and with the huge success company must be very happy.
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Getting More Downloads than WhatsApp is a Big Achievement
WhatsApp Messenger is one of the most used messenger Apps worldwide. It is really nice to see that Hike is giving very good competition to WhatsApp in India. Previously WhatsApp seemed to be getting the most downloads, but now you can see Hike App listed before WhatsApp in the category of ‘Top Free in Android Apps’.
Daily 3,00,000 people are downloading Hike messenger which is really a very big number. It’ll be interesting to see whether Hike messenger will keep getting more popular. WhatsApp was purchased by Facebook a few months ago, and now it’ll be interesting to see that which steps will be taken by Facebook for making WhatsApp again get on the top of Charts of free downloaded Apps.
Big Role has been played by Marketing Campaigns
Marketing has become one of the most important things for promoting any product. Marketing is one of the reasons which has made Hike messenger get such huge number of downloads.
$14 Million funding received by Hike App is one of the reasons which has improved Hike messenger and good amount has been spent also for the marketing campaigns.
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Features of Hike App which May Impress You
Hike Messenger App has improved a lot, and you can find many new features have been provided. Some of the features of Hike Messenger which I really like are as follows
1. Support for Different Indian Languages
According to me, support for different Indian languages is one of the main reasons which has made Hike messenger get so much success in India. Everyone may not be comfortable in typing in English, but some people just love to type in their own language. This is a reason that Hike messenger is liked by everyone.
2. Share Files Easily
You can easily share files up to 100MB using Hike messenger.
3. Hiding “Last Seen” is possible
With Hike messenger, you can easily hide the last seen data. This can be useful as you may not like certain friends knowing that you were recently active on Hike.
Not only these features, but you may find that Hike messenger may soon get some more amazing features in future.
Kevin Bharti Mittal who is the Head of Product and Strategy of BSB has said that
Improvement has been done for those who’re using 2G and low-end smartphones
According to me, this is definitely one of the reasons which has given Hike Messenger get so much success recently in India. There are many people who still use 2G internet only, as 3G internet costs more than 2G internet. Even the number of people who make use of low-end smartphones is very high in India.
If you’ve not download Hike messenger, then you can Download Hike now itself. After downloading Hike, you can invite your friends too to try out Hike messenger. Under some special promotional campaign, Hike is giving free talktime to those who are able to make their friends download Hike messenger. You’ll get a good idea about this promotional campaign after downloading Hike messenger. Let us see for how long Hike messenger will remain to be the most downloaded free Apps. Do you like Hike Messenger? Which feature of Hike Messenger you like the most?
Hi,
I am not using any of the messenger as of now. I have used whatsapp and it was nice. Hike messengers are definitely good and there have been many adverts circulating in all the media.
The advert revolved around showcasing hike as a teen thing and so does many might be gong for it.
The impressive feature is definitely the usage of the application on the 2G data, as me myself use 2G data most of the times.
Cheers to Hike. Anyway, I found this article on Kingged.
Thanks for your comment Rohan…I think that you should immediately start using messaging Apps like WhatsApp and Hike….Connecting with old and new friends by using these messaging Apps can really be a good experience for you..
Hi Mohit,
All along whiles reading this post yours, I was thinking this hike messenger was something for mountain hikers until I read the comment of Rohan which states it’s a teen thing.
If that is so, then it is really popular there and this is even my first time hearing of it. But its a great thing knowing they have surpassed whatsapp in India in terms of downloads.
I did find this post of yours shared on kingged.com!
Yes Hike has surpassed whatsapp in terms of downloads, and that’s why many people may start comparing Hike and WhatsApp…Emmanuel lets see what type of new features are introduced in future by WhatsApp and Hike..Keep visiting my blog…