MESSAGING IS THE KILLER MOBILE EXPERIENCE • The average Millennial (18-24) exchanges an average of 67 text 1 messages per day • Text messages have a 98% open rate, while email has only a 20% open rate2 • Over 80% of people use text messaging for business, and 15% said that more than half their messages are for business purposes3 • First example of success – Slack4 • 2M DAU • 570M paid users • 800M+ messages sent a month • 4k platform apps Source: (1) Business Insider. (2) Velocify., (3) eWeek. (4) Slack. www.bvp.com/cloud 49
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