A friend of mine who’s a senior executive at a very large entertainment company told me that because his company sells through retailers, cable, and other channels, they don’t directly talk to or hear from their customers, and it’s a problem they’re actively trying to change.
It’s really different here at meebo, and that’s one of the reasons I joined. 
We are very fortunate to enjoy that dialog with you, through the blog, forums, feedback, and surveys like the one we put out last week.
The number of responses we received was overwhelming and we’d like to share some of the results…
11,194 people completed the survey and of those people, roughly half were female, half were male.
74% of people said they found out about meebo from a friend or co-worker.
79% said you use IM every day, 80% IM for an hour or more a day. 21% said they IM for 10 hours or more. Wow!
We asked what else you do while on meebo.
78% said email, although 63% said they IM more than email. Other popular activities done while meeboing include: playing games 32%, sharing/listening to music, 50%, surfing the web 62%, doing work 70%, and 23% said they watch TV and use meebo at the same time.
79% said they prefer IM to text messaging (whew!)
In terms of advertising categories, we’ve received very positive feedback on our bubble ad that is on the left of the screen. Respondents said they’d like to continue to see music there, and also see ads for movies, tech toys, and some other stuff. Very few said they’d like to see political advertising. Got it!
We had 6,663 comments on features you’d like to see on meebo – which is awesome. We’re going through those each week and I’d imagine that you’ll see them show up in our product development.
Thanks to all who responded. Knowing more helps us build better products, fix bugs, and it’s great to come to work feeling like I know a little bit more about the people who use the products we build.
Martin
[ comments ] [ past blogs ]
October 15th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
check this out
October 15th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
That’s all admirably agile-ish of you… trying to touch base with your customers and all. But isn’t it kind of preaching to the choir to ask people on Meebo a survey question like “Do you prefer IM or text messaging?” How can the answer be at all a surprise??? Your entire survey base is IMers. I’m sure if you sent out a text message question to all regular text messagers, then it’d be the same percentages but a reverse outcome.
As for the advertising… of course the 20 -> 40 somethings on here that have generally NEVER been interested in politics aren’t interested in seeing political ads. It doesn’t mean it’s not good for them to see, however.
But I know, your objective is to make some money, not rustle up interest in politics or any other social cause. So in a way I understand… but still, in a way, I wish you weren’t just pandering to the audience.
BTW… anyone want to bet on the response you’d get if you asked “Advertising or no advertising??”
-josh
October 15th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
hey i have a question about adding buddies. i know how to do it but it wont let me i have to meet friends on a chatroom, IM them and then add as a buddy. when i add a buddy the your “suppose” to i guess nothing happens and like i said i have to call friends and tell them what chatroom to meet me on.
write back pl
thanks
Jazmyn
October 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
i love the angel that you have and all that they are so qute
October 15th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
But…ermm…you forgot the most important statistic…
pirates or ninjas?
October 15th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
HARRY POTTER BEST CHATROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! BEST!!!!! JOIN ginnyweasley456’s ROOM FOR OMG LOVE OF HARYY POTTER!!! HELP US FIGHT VOLDEMORT!!!!!!!
October 15th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
@Josh, for advertising or no advertising, i personally would answer the first. That’s the best way to keep a great app free, and the guys at meebo try doing it in a really non-annoying way.
Martin, we’re waiting for the rest results – pirates vs ninja, coke vs pepsi – we need to know that!
October 15th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
my apologies heh heh.
here are a few more:
pirates.. 48% ninjas 52% – sorry ninjas – it was recently pirate day after all.
punk marginally beat out prep 51% to 49%.
apple 35% vs pc 65% – those ads work!
H&M 56% vs abercrombie and fitch at 44%
coke 66% vs pepsi 34%. wow.
October 15th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
GOD bless
October 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
hey josh i want to bet 10 bucks for no advertising.
Joseph
October 15th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
hhm… the political advertising …
pays meebo a big deal, they will get they’re pocket full of shells
meebo rally run around the family and they’re pockets are full of shells
meebo gona be rich someday dude
so its ok
so its ok ?!! …
yo meebo if your rich someday are you goin to be like microsoft ?
license this license that cos thats suck dude .
joseph
October 16th, 2007 at 12:39 am
salutare
October 16th, 2007 at 4:06 am
MEEBO! heysan is trying to beat you in the mobile world. They are unsuccessful as of yet, but you must not let them catch up! WAR!
October 16th, 2007 at 6:21 am
It would be nice if we could opt out of the blog pop-up. Meebo takes a while to load and freezes up Firefox temporarily as it is.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:58 am
Another feature would potentialy be some kind of cam feature that works like/with Yahoo… i have friends that have cams and when i use Meebo elsewhere than home (about 80-90% of my time on Meebo) I have no access to these images. and i agree with Aaron, allow us to remove the blog. PLEASE…
October 16th, 2007 at 7:06 am
I gotta agree with Aaron. The blog pop-up belies the minimalist approach that meebo seems to take(rock the lighttpd!). That being said, I wouldn’t opt-out of it….it’s nice to know there’s a friendly face behind meebo.
For features I’d like to see, at the top of the list would be a “work-friendly” skin. It would be even cooler if you could make everything look like an openoffice spreadsheet or something. When people see my machine from across the office, they know right away that I’m using IM and it can be embarrassing at times.
I recently installed Beryl on my machine, and I gotta say it rocks. As a web-dev myself, I’m fairly confident that the same eye-candy would be impossible on Meebo, but a boy can dream…
Back to reality, it would be nice if your ads were a bit more targeted. I don’t know if it’s possible given your privacy policy, but I actually like well-targeted ads(i.e: letting me know that there’s a Zero 7 concert in my area). I *really* want you guys to make money so you can continue to provide the service, but ads for stuff I don’t *want* are really annoying to me. How do you figure out what people want? hire me! haha
October 16th, 2007 at 7:11 am
I almost forgot! Mobile messaging would be HUGE! I think it would be wise to put out a call for testers on the meebo blog. I see people with smartphones all over the place. This is really a big growth market, hit it hard.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Wow that great and all but what the F**k for? Okey-Dokey!!
October 16th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Wow that great and all but what the F**k for? Okey-Dokey!!
October 16th, 2007 at 7:32 am
I think the skin is simple and easy. I like it. It isnt too busy, and i think its the simplest way to go.
Plus, i think the whole advertising thing is a good idea, or we’d be paying for meebo. Im glad it isnt political advertising because that would in turn, cause problems with users. The music adds are cool because i live my life by music so i like it. Tech adds would be pretty cool too since the generation mainy using meebo is constantly changing with technology.
Thanks for all the survey results!
October 16th, 2007 at 9:46 am
I’m curious as to the percentages to the Pepsi vs Coke question. BTW, I’m with the No Advertising (good point Josh) but I understand someone’s gotta make moola!
October 16th, 2007 at 9:52 am
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October 16th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Political Advertising? You mean propaganda? Hell no!! Go out and read for goodness sake, educate yourselves and learn the issues and candidates on even ground.
October 16th, 2007 at 11:20 am
YEAH i USE THiS SO MUCH MORE THAN ANYTHiNG CELL FONE TV E i USE THiS A LOT AND iT’S FUN TO BE ON! GOOD JOB!
October 16th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
hey GUESS WHAT??? NOBODY CARES EXCEPT THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE COMMENTS ABOUT THIS stupid thing!!!! i wrote it so you can READ IT! MARTIN
October 16th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I made a post on the forum asking about developer documentation and expressing interest in porting OTR ( http://cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ) to Meebo. My post wasn’t even noticed for weeks, there is no documentation to speak of, and no one from Meebo even seemed to notice.
I want to like Meebo, but you guys seem to put more effort into the appearance of friendliness than actually being friendly.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Wow. I’d never expect that there are roughly half males and half females.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
meebo is just a fad if that, and will quickly die out. you have no firm product offering, and to be honest, not a lot of people give a sht about meebo. marketing and consumer research are good when you have a product to differentiate or design but that’s not the case here. i’m curious as to what your business plan is. sorry i’m so mean.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
ummm one question why is it everytime i logg on my stuff never shows up it always says none of your things are working right now please try later or something like that
October 16th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
What about the pepsi vs. coke question? That’s the only reason why I took the survey!!!
October 16th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Umm. Someone said how they think a way to get webcams working on here would be good. I definately agree with that (:. Yknow, if theres any way to connect it to yahoo, msn, or aim? And, when i add people on here, it doesnt add them to my usual aim base. (I use trillian basic.) Is it a problem with trillian or meebo?
Thanks (;
October 16th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
This doesn’t have anything to do with this blog, but I think font colors should have like 53795 choices.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
How do you find out and get all of the peoples answers like do you email every single person. I would like to try something like you did but first i need to know how. Please tell me how by emailing me at jaden@wilkinsdigital.com.
Thanks
Jaden Wilkins
October 16th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
You know, I didn’t say this on the quiz, but what would be nice would be to have a feature that I can talk to people using my microphone. I know that would take a lot of work, but it would soooo be worth it so I don’t have to go back to my AIM or Yahoo or something of my own just to talk to people.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I like Meebo because it is the only social site that our internet filter has yet to block.
October 16th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
OH MY GOD I JUST LOST MY VIRGINITY TO A COMPUTER!
October 16th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
JAZZY: Sorry to hear you can’t add buddies. If you check out this link on our wiki, it should help:
http://wiki.meebo.com/doku.php?id=usage:getting_started#managing_buddies
If you’re still having issues, shoot us an email: comments@meebo.com!
DALE: Webcam is definitely on our list to do!
AARON/DALE/FWIFFO: regarding removing the blog, that is also something on our to-do list! As is customizable skins, and Mobile messaging. We hear ya!
DONNY: I’m sorry no one replied to your forum post. We’re getting better at going through those each week. Can you send us a note: comments@meebo.com? Thanks!
COURTNEY/HEATHERRR: Sorry you’re having problems logging in. Shoot us an email with the specifics and we’ll be able to help you (comments@meebo.com).
A PEOPLE PERSON: Thanks for the suggestion about the font colors. I’ll mention it to the team! Not sure about 53795, but ya never know!
CAITLIN: We’ve heard the suggestion about voice too and it is on our to-do list!
For those who missed Martin’s post, Coke beat out Pepsi – 66% to 34%!
Sue/Meebo Support Team
October 16th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Well I can tell you for a fact that at my school when we’re in school we go to the computer labs a lot. && its wicked boring to just do work so we listen to music & check email and facebook. Only because they blocked myspace from us.They also blocked any form of instant messaging. But meebo isnt blocked at our school. So thats wicked lucky. Especially for me since I use AIM,MSN & Yahoo.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
I love meebo. it is so much fun. Who ever made it good job.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Meebo = great
October 16th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Hey team, love you guys. any thought to ever including IRC on here? Then it’d be perfect
some of these sites like connectiontube and ircatwork are so overload and it really sucks. Just wondering if that was in the works. Thanks
Ryan
October 16th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
cool stats but what I really care is MOVIE stats!! I want to know who else loves The Big Lebowski
October 16th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I think the bubble ad is a great tool, not obtrusive but enough to gather attention. I’d really like to see you make that available to smaller companies, start-ups, etc., and perhaps rotate through to give the smaller businesses out there some additional exposure.
Either way, Meebo is an awesome tool, something we use every day. As soon as it’s available on mobile devices (blackberry specifically) we’ll use meebo on our site directly to keep in contact with visitors to our website.
Keep up the great work!
Christopher Rees
Palaestra Training
IT Certification and Training Videos
http://www.palaestratraining.com
October 16th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I have to say I found out about meebo from a friend and I am planing on using it more and more since I use computers both at school and at home, and keeping my buddy list around for a good social break is great.
2 suggestions I have is:
Could you make it so that the user can select there own picture for a wall paper?
Could the widgets be made for off site code? sort of like what igoogle.com, myspace and other 2.0 sites have done?
Thanks a lot for all your hard work on putting this great tool together!
October 17th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Everything is perfect working, but I’m missing SKYPE here
October 17th, 2007 at 12:37 am
this is so interesting. i just started using it bcause were in the it lab with my frnds and reading your comments sure heals boredom.
PS. i love coke. but pepsi commercials are way hotter.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:38 am
+1 vote for Skype
October 17th, 2007 at 1:05 am
hello every one nice 2 meet u
October 17th, 2007 at 1:09 am
hello nice 2 meet u guys and lady
October 17th, 2007 at 1:10 am
hello guys nice meeting u
October 17th, 2007 at 5:49 am
It’s good u want to base with us meebooers.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:05 am
nice that sounded great
October 17th, 2007 at 6:27 am
how come there is no webcam and voice chat like the yahoo messenger?could you put webcam and voice chat so that everybody enjoy.
October 17th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Hi!
Its nice to be using Meebo! Comes very handy in library!
I’ve been unable to use the feature of Chat Logs though! Could somebody explain me how to use that! It would be appreciated!
Ciao!
October 17th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Hey guys and gals and what not down there in the bowels of Meebodom. I’ve officially uninstalled all my first party IM client softwares and I’m going 100% meebo at home and at work! (yeah bask in it.)
One request! I need to be able to italicize/bold/underline parts of a message within the whole. How am I supposed to add emphasis if I can only do italics with the whole message that way? Any way, thanks for the kickin tool, and go Ninjas!
October 17th, 2007 at 9:35 am
hi friends tanks
bay
October 17th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I didn’t have time to do the survey, but please add me to the pile of people who *hate* the bubble ads…otherwise meebo is really cool!
October 17th, 2007 at 11:20 am
I think its sad that so few people wanted political info displayed in the bubble. People are so caught up in what new toy comes out next month they have no clue if we will be around to enjoy it or if its going to cost twice as much because of a new tax code or what not. Wake up people and take active role in the future of your country and world.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:44 am
79% said you use IM every day, 80% IM for an hour or more a day. 21% said they IM for 10 hours or more. Wow!
If only 79% use IM every day
How can 80% use IM every day for more then an hour….. L2MATH!
October 17th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I know meebo.com from my friend
It’s great, we can sign in to our messenger without installing the client
two thumbs up for meebo
October 17th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
hi
October 17th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Meebo… ignoring my post?
@Vladimir – Oh c’mon. Lest ye forget, there’s always good old Communism to keep a community alive without commercial interest involved. ; )
Hmmm… who will be the first to report me to the authorities for that one?
LOL
October 17th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
uhhh! ya DUH! i like texin and IM…who doesnt lol?
October 17th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I THINK MEEBO NEEDS MORE STUFF TO DO LIKE MAKE LINK TO PEOPLES FAVORITE OR MOST POPULA WEBSITES
October 17th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
MEEBO GETS SO BORING WHEN NOBODYS ON
October 17th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
The webcam feature would definitely be appreciated. Can the developers give a rough time frame of when the webcam feature (perhaps voice too) will be available on meebo? Thanks.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
yea well i kno dat sume ppl is dumb these days and where r my friends
October 17th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
meebo is awsome I love it! It is so easy to chat with friends.
October 17th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Meebo kicks a**
8 hours a day for me
oh and if meebo is blocked at your work use this link
https://www.meebo.com
October 17th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
i think meebo must create new rule coz its hard when someone try to disturb at rooms with repeat text until i disconnect..
October 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
stop the pop ups NOW!!
other than that i really like this sign in
much better that IMO>IM
October 17th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
meebo is ..hmm..good but theres sumthing not enough i guess.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
its cool and all but it’d be better if we had like this umm… link to like… decorate our profile. And its really annoying that i have to keep my profiles less than a 1000 words.
DDDDDD
October 18th, 2007 at 2:41 am
hi i am surya i am new here n want to mak some friend
October 18th, 2007 at 2:42 am
How about VOICE CHAT?
October 18th, 2007 at 2:50 am
no commet i just came in for a loan maybe u can help
October 18th, 2007 at 2:58 am
i love meebo it’s so good for our daily life,thank you.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Hey i’m new to meebo but I’m crazy for this site.
I’m from Malta, small island in the med. Also I’m at work from 8 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon so I get quite bored. All alone in my office.
I enjoy it a lot and have met quite a number of friends.
Love you meebo and thankx
October 18th, 2007 at 6:00 am
does anyone know how to change the new picture on the meebo page?
October 18th, 2007 at 6:31 am
95% pakistani people said they found out about meebo from a friend or co-worker.
thanks meebo thanks
October 18th, 2007 at 9:36 am
I LIKE TO USE MEEBO BECAUSE AT MY WORK PLACE THIS IS THE ONLY WAY I CAN USE MESSINGER, SO IT,S A GOOD THING FOR ME AND FOR MY MATES SO KEEPET ON
October 18th, 2007 at 10:03 am
i want you
October 18th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Ninjas are like 500 times better than pirates newayys.
Thanks for that!
October 18th, 2007 at 10:54 am
meebo’s A M A Z i N G !* i love it cus it’s faster and easier then downloasinq aim or anythinq else ta your computer . and it doesn’t cause any virus’ :]
October 18th, 2007 at 11:28 am
thanks this is cool!!!!
October 18th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Hmm i just go on my meebo today and i noticed that all my Freinds were gone…
Im using Meebo to sign onto Aim, this sucks if i got all my freinds deleted
October 18th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I was introduced to this website by my friend. I thought that it was easy to do. I fell in love with it and now every day I am on for hours. I love that I could chat with my friends and set backrouns and icons with out downloading anything. And I have told all of my friends about this website and agrred to use it.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I agree with the person who commented on italics/bold – it sucks that you can only use them on the whole message. Fix plz.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Hi, How are you? I am fine! i am 13 year old and 7th grade i am favorie is sherk the 3! I want to e-mail to you!!!!!!!
October 18th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
hola
October 18th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I get troubles with Meebo in XP and Vista! Message : a script runing is causing IE to stop or going slow. Stop the script?”
I answer NO uninstable runing of IE all time waiting script stop! If Yes all goes well!
ok. trouble reported. Vic > http://www.dimuka.net
October 18th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Yes, altering the Meebo to a work-style preference is a great idea, as well as other enviorment-similar skins, too. A lot of people use IMing for work purposes, or convenience to communicate with after-work plans/home, but it can be a hassle having to explain yourself to your stingy boss that you use an IMing service for these particular reasons. Some sort of a plain, mild colour Excell sort of spreadsheet should be used to enhance and encourage the use for employees and professional communication. Most people wouldn’t be attracted to something that may be child like or mostly used by children and teens unless there is a sort of way that Meebo can reach out to the workforce.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
what up im new so i hope u add m
October 18th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I would like a mac widget…..for meebo…that would be awesome!!!
October 18th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
i luv using meebo but when i try to start chat rooms it dosnt work and they say they will work on it but i dosnt work
October 19th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
what up i hope u add me
October 20th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
what is this place what is meebo
October 21st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Meebo is a place like chatrooms and stuff and it’s pretty cool my computer you cant have any chatting things on it so I use meebo.com and I love it!
October 24th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
yooo peoplpe don’t be going on ma aim that bothers me damn oeople ya bother me so much i got 99 comets
October 25th, 2007 at 11:47 am
what are all ofu guys doing right now
October 25th, 2007 at 11:47 am
so how want to talk
October 29th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
COKE? PEPSI?
What happened to that?
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 am
what happened to that ?
hey i have a question about adding buddies. i know how to do it but it wont let me i have to meet friends on a chatroom, IM them and then add as a buddy. when i add a buddy the your “suppose” to i guess nothing happens and like i said i have to call friends and tell them what chatroom to meet me on.
what is this place what is meebo
by wafa mohammed 10z
November 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
i think thats an ok idea to have games cus it gets a little boring around here at times
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
hey that was realy boring]
November 24th, 2007 at 4:54 am
đũ má mày
May 12th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
what is this place what is meebo
August 5th, 2008 at 4:45 am
why is it “everytime” i logg on my stuff never shows up it always says none of your things are working right now please try later or something like that
thanks 4 answer it
خرید پستی
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 am
nu-mi apare lista cu contacte pe yahoo!ce trebuie sa fac?va rog ajutati-ma!!!
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 am
nu-mi apare lista cu contacte pe yahoo!ce trebuie sa fac?va rog ajutati-ma
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I think support for OTR would be very nice too.
November 5th, 2009 at 12:34 am
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