Whatsapp users in India use the video calling feature for a total of 50 million minutes per day, the highest aggregate usage in the world, according to the company. Globally Whatsapp has recorded over 340 million video calling minutes per day, spread across 55 million video calls made each day. Whatsapp had launched video calling feature in November last year. The Facebook-owned messaging app competes with Google’s Duo, Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft’s Skype, Facebook’s Messenger, and messaging app Hike. Calculations (Nikhil adds) Some calculations based on Whatsapp disclosures, made earlier today: 50 million video calling minutes per day in India, across 200 million monthly active Whatsapp users (for Feb 2017), would amount to around 7.5 minutes per user per month, or 15 seconds per day per user (assuming everyone is active every day). Clearly video calling hasn't reached census levels for Whatsapp. Audio calling data would probably be more interesting. 340 million video calling minutes per day globally, across 55 million video calls per day, means around an average of 6 minutes and 11 seconds per call. That's a fairly long time-span for a video call, and a lot of data consumption. Note that Whatsapp hasn't released data for number of video calls made per day in India. Wonder why. Also, it would be interesting to compare this data with Google Duo and Hike Messenger. Usership Whatsapp had 1.2 billion monthly active users globally and 200 in India as of February this year. Facebook Messenger had 1.2 billion monthly active users as of April…
