UPDATED 12:02 EDT / SEPTEMBER 19 2011

People Bump the Most at Night: How Mobile Revolutionized Content Sharing

Contrary to the popular belief that Bump is only for sharing contact information, the mobile app is actually being used to share all kinds of content. It also boasts its 50 million users, 10 million of which active, and is currently iOS’s 7th most popular apps of all time.  The company milestones give us a look into the world of content sharing, and how it’s transforming thanks to mobile technology and trends.

“When we launched the app on the App Store, we had no idea if anyone else in the world felt the same way or would care about Bump. On day one, we were excited to get 222 downloads. Now, in just over two years, we’re proud to announce that more than 50 million people have now installed Bump on their phone … Pretty quickly, we realized we hadn’t just built a contact information exchange app; what we really had built was a way to share any type of content and interact with others, physically, in the real world, as opposed to just the virtual worlds of social networks and email.”

In celebration to this milestone, Bump released an infographic that shows what, where and how people are using the mobile app, available for iOS and Android devices.  It’s being used by people worldwide, from Alaska to Micronesia.  Bump has enabled sharing of a quarter billion photos, and has established millions of connections.

Among the notable facts in the infographic include:

• The top five shared songs of the month are 1. Rolling in the Deep (Adele); 2. Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO); 3. Alejandro (Lady Gaga); 4. The A Team (Ed Sheeran); 5. The Lazy Song (Bruno Mars).
• The top five shared games of the month are 1. Angry Birds Free; 2. Doodle Jump; 3. Cut the Rope; 4. Fruit Ninja; 5. Talking Tom Cat.
• 400,000 apps and music are recommended through Bump per day.
• Photos are being shared at a rate of 17.12 photos per second (267 million in total).
• People bump the most at night and on weekends – between 8:00-11:00 p.m.
• 15M things are bumped per week.


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