Slack Statistics – By Country, Market Share, Productivity, Trend, Industry, Demographics, Website Traffic, App

Barry Elad

Updated · Aug 31, 2023

Slack Statistics – By Country, Market Share, Productivity, Trend, Industry, Demographics, Website Traffic, App

Introduction

Slack Statistics: Slack is a messaging app used in businesses that allows connecting people to information whenever they require it. This app was founded in 2013 but launched in the market in 2014 and has gained instant success by 2nd week the app had more than 15,000 users. It includes a variety of features that can be easily customized suitably as per the company’s needs. Modern days Slack can be replaced with both WhatsApp and email and this app can fix the same work in a better, faster, organized, and secure way. As of reports, in the 1st quarter of 2022, Slack had 20 million users which generated approximately $273.4 million in revenue.

These Slack Statistics include insights from various aspects such as productivity, collaboration, and team dynamics that will shed light on how fast Slack is gaining popularity in the current business world.

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Editor’s choice

The popularity of Slack has been on an epic rise for many years now, and there’s no sign of stopping its amazing growth.

Year Daily Users Monthly Users
2025 8.7 million 14.6 million
2024 12.6 million 21 million
2023 19.2 million 32.2 million
2022 25.7 million 43.1 million

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  • As of date 2023, the active users of Slack turned out around 20 million.
  • The revenue generated by the Slack app in 2022 was $273.4 million which has increased by 36% from 2021.
  • In 2022, the paid Slack customers were above 169,000 increased by 39% from last year.
  • By the end of 2025, the active users are expected to reach 79 million and the estimated daily users will be 47.2 million.
  • It is estimated that $13.8 average revenue is going to be generated by paying Slack users and the overall revenue rate is supposed to be $4,271 million in 2025.
  • In 2023 as of the latest data, the value of Slack was $26.51 billion and in 2022 it valued $26.23 billion.
  • Slack is currently used for daily communication and managing projects reported by 65 Fortune companies out of the top 100 across the world in 2022.
  • On weekdays Slack users usually spend around 9 hours on Slack and the rest was observed for at least 90 minutes.

Facts on Slack Statistics

  • As of 2023, the daily active user of Slack is predicted to be 32.3 million which has increased from 2022 that resulted in 25.7 million.
  • Whereas, daily active Slack users in 2024 and 2025 are expected to be 38.8 million and 47.2 million respectively.
  • The monthly active user count of Slack in 2022 was 43.1 million and the user count has effectively increased in 2023 resulting in 54.1 million.
  • On the other hand, the Slack user count in 2024 and 2025 it is predicted to be 65 million and 79 million per month.
  • As of 2023, Slack was used by many large companies such as IBM, Airbnb, Amazon, and PayPal.
  • Around the world, Slack is used by more than 500,000 developers.
  • Daily messages sent on Slack are approximately above 1.5 billion.
  • In Slack dictionary, there are almost 2000 apps and 750 bots are available.
  • Moreover, in 2022, almost 400 apps have been developed for integrating with Slack.
  • Slack includes games for their users such as Chess Box, Rock Paper Scissors, Ice Breaker, and Connect Four.

History of Slack

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  • The full name of Slack is “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge”.
  • The launch date of Slack was 14 August 2013.
  • The parent company of Slack is Salesforce headquartered at San Francisco, California
  • The founder of this app was Stewart Butterfield (CEO) and Cal Henderson (CTO).
  • In 2009, Slack had 11 offices in 7 countries.
  • In 2014 total revenue generated by Slack was almost 12 million and started increasing since then, which is followed by 2015 (30 million), 2016 (100 million), 2017 (200 million), 2018 (221 million), 2019 (401 million), 2020 (630 million), and 2021 (902 million).

General Statistics

  • For small and medium-sized businesses the monthly cost of a Slack pro plan subscription is $8.75.
  • Whereas, for an annual subscription $7.25 is the cost of monthly per user.
  • For yearly payments, the monthly cost of Business+ is almost $12.50, on the other hand, $15 per user for monthly fees.
  • In large companies 5% of large companies were using Slack those are having more than 1000 employees.
  • Furthermore, 66% of small companies were using Slack with less than 50 employees and 29% of medium-sized companies have invested in Slack.
  • Whereas, customers use Slack in small companies by 89% resulting in more than $50 million in revenue.
  • As of 2022-23 reports, slack customer available in the United States is 60% and in the United Kingdom (6%).
  • In 2022, more than 40% of Fortune 100 businesses and 80% of Fortune companies in 2023 were using the Slack platform
  • Paid Slack users are more than 3 million in number whereas, the total number of users is approximately 10 million.
  • Globally the Slack app is used by 200,000+ organizations.

Top slack statistics

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  • By the end of December 2022, across all social media platforms, Slack's ranking in the United States was 17th position.
  • As of February 2023, the worldwide slack ranking has increased to 15th position.

Statistics by Market Share of Slack

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  • In the year 2023, the market share of Slack is 22.50%.
  • The revenue generated by Slack app in 1st quarter of 2022 was $273.4 million which has increased by 36% from 2021.
  • According to Salesforce, by the end of 2022, the market share of Slack turned out to be approximately 1.1 billion.
  • As of January 2023, the revenue rate has turned out to be $1.5 billion.
  • It has been observed that the biggest competitor of Slack is Microsoft Teams and in 2023 number of daily active users of Slack was above 20 million and Microsoft had 280 million.
  • As of now, Slack is available in more than 150 countries across the world.
  • The conversion rate of Slack’s free to paid users has increased by 30%.
  • As of 2023, the rate of the United States employees has grown resulting in 2,045 people.
  • In New York, the highest concentration of Slack was observed resulting in 420,000 users in 2022.

Slack Statistics by Country

  • As of March 2023, the maximum number of companies using Slack is in the United States (78,759) which is 63% of companies
  • Furthermore, the highest distribution of companies using Slack by countries is followed by the United Kingdom (7,908), Canada (5,895), India (3,403), and Germany (3,402).
  • The countries in which the implementation rate of slack is lowest are Australia (1,890), the Netherlands (1,490), and Italy (956).
  • Whereas, country-wise statistics by number of Slack users in 2023 are followed by the United States (193,055), United Kingdom (35,302), India (19,233), Canada (18,844), France (12,881), Australia (12,692), and Germany (12,656).

Statistics by Slack Productivity

The number of organizations that reported an increase in their productivity percentage after adapting to the usage of Slack

Percentage Increase In Productivity Number Of Organizations
More than 100% 33
100% to 80% 58
80% to 60% 129
60% to 40% 292
40% to 20% 515
20% to 10% 458
No increase in productivity 144

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  • The use of emails and meetings has decreased by 32% and 23% respectively by companies that are currently using Slack.
  • Due to the simplification process of the Slack app, companies have fewer in-person meetings and texts.
  • Users of Slack helped bring products to market 23% faster than other companies that haven’t implemented Slack yet.
  • For completing day-to-day tasks 75% of workers use Slack.
  • Whereas, Slack helped in connecting users with their teams accepted by 84% of Slack users.
  • Public channels for messaging were used by 74% of Slack users.
  • Businesses after signing contacts with Slack experienced 13% growth.
  • After implementing Slack the rate of productivity has increased by 20%-40% and was accepted by 515 companies in the U.S. in 2022.
  • For people who are involved in ‘work from home’ in such a case, 91% of Slack users accepted that Slack made their work easier.
  • Whereas, productivity remained constant or no increase was experienced by 144 companies.
  • As of 2023, sales teams that are using Slack are 5 times more likely to close deals.
  • Only 5.2% of Slack user's screen time accounts for messaging.

Statistics by Slack Chat

  • In the United States, a small and medium trade costs $7.25 for a regular Slack subscription.
  • The conversion to Slack helped to enhance the communication quality within organizations which was accepted by 87% of Slack users.
  • Slack helps create a number of unlimited channels for users.
  • When a message is sent via Slack users can use hundreds of emoticons.
  • Throughout the world in 2023, Slack is utilized by 7.3% of developers.
  • For companies that are using Slack to achieve many lengthy procedures, API is reduced to 30-minute tasks.
  • Per week Slack reduced the support tickets by 2,500.
  • Slack API integrations handle more than 3,800 queries every week in 2023.

Statistics by Slack Trend

  • In the Slack app store, there are over 2,400 apps available which includes a popular app named “Please Share”.
  • The Slack service includes 90% of free users all over the world.
  • By the end of 2022, across the world, more than 600,000 companies were using Slack.
  • According to survey reports of 2023, almost 156,000 paid users with 1,080 businesses have generated more than $100,000 in revenues annually.
  • Per week Slack users have spent almost 10 hours and in the U.S. only 7% of businesses have used Slack in 2022.

 Slack Statistics by Industry

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  • As of March 2023, across the world, the largest segments are 13% of Information Technology and service companies were using Slack and other companies share Slack is followed by, followed by computer software (12%), Marketing and Advertising (7%), and the Internet (6%).
  • The number of Slack users company of Information Technology and Services is 16,577 which is followed by the computer software department (15,480), Marketing and advertising (9,551), Internet (7,452), Financial Services (3,259), Retail (3,113), Design (2,671), Non-profit organization Management (2,303), Real Estate (2,209), and Construction (2,115).
  • Revenue generated by several companies is followed by $1 million (26,528 companies), $1-10 million (63,035), $10-50 million (3,670), $100-200 million (2,023), $200-1000 (2,051), and over $1 billion (1,622).

Statistics by Slack Demographics

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  • As of February 2023, the majority of Slack desktop users were 63.37% of male and 36.63% of female users.
  • In the same year, the most users of slack desktop used slack.com were aged between 25 years to 34 years with 37.96% which is followed by 35 years to 44 years (21.56%), 18 years to 24 years (20.02%), 45 years to 54 years (11.41%), 55 years to 64 years (5.90%), and above 65 years (3.16%).
  • The global desktop slack traffic in the United States turned out 32.27%, which is followed by 9.60% in Japan, 5.18% in India, 4.27% in the United Kingdom, and 3.49% in Canada.

Statistics by Slack App

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  • As of 17th March 2023, in the United States number of Slack Android app downloads turned out to be 10 million downloads and the average rating of the Android Slack app is 3.7 stars which includes almost 122,000 reviews.
  • As of 13th March 2023 in the United States App Store, the Slack iOS app has ranked 378th position and the rating of the app is 3.8 stars with 16,455 reviews.
  • In February 2023, productivity app websites were visited by 17.7% of Slack Android app users.
  • Furthermore, 16.4% of Slack users visited different websites of communication such as Gmail and WhatsApp, followed by visited tools websites such as Pixel Launcher and Clock (12.2% Slack users), and visited business websites such as LinkedIn and Zoom (6.7%)

Slack Statistics by Website Traffic

  • In December 2022, in the United States, the slack ranked 364th by website traffic, whereas slack ranking increased in January 2023 (307th position), and February 2023 (289th position).
  • Slack website has received referral traffic from 669 domains in February 2023 resulting in 17.9% of Slack. com’straffic.
  • On the Slack website, 96.47% of organic keyword and 3.53% of paid keyword was responsible for desktop traffic in February 2023.
  • In the 1st quarter of 2023, top publishers share of Slack.com are ‘start a trial’ (21.34%), ‘YouTube.com’ (11.64%), ‘ufreegames.com’ (11.64%), and ‘Knowledgeacaemy.com’ (4.76%).
  • The website of Slack received the most social media desktop traffic from LinkedIn (24.71%).
  • Whereas, other social media traffic is followed by 18.66% (YouTube), 15.96% (Facebook), 14.82% (Twitter), and 7.57% (Reddit).
  • In February 2022, outgoing links from Slack websites were followed by search engines (93.55%) whereas; other outgoing links were followed by 4.13% of faith and belief, 1.31% of programming and developer software, 0.54% of email, and 0.22% of social media network.
  • In December 2022, in the United States, the slack ranked 364th by website traffic, whereas slack ranking increased in January 2023 (307th position), and February 2023 (289th position).
  • Slack website received referral traffic from 669 domains in February 2023 resulting in 17.9% of Slack. com straffic.
  • On the Slack website, 96.47% of organic keyword and 3.53% of paid keyword was responsible for desktop traffic in February 2023.
  • In the 1st quarter of 2023, top publishers share of Slack.com are ‘start a trial’ (21.34%), ‘YouTube.com’ (11.64%), ‘ufreegames.com’ (11.64%), and ‘Knowledgeacaemy.com’ (4.76%).
  • The website of Slack received the most social media desktop traffic from LinkedIn (24.71%).
  • Whereas, other social media traffic is followed by 18.66% (YouTube), 15.96% (Facebook), 14.82% (Twitter), and 7.57% (Reddit).
  • In February 2022, outgoing links from Slack websites were followed by search engines (93.55%) whereas; other outgoing links were followed by 4.13% of faith and belief, 1.31% of programming and developer software, 0.54% of email, and 0.22% of social media network.

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  • In the last month, the United States of America had 31.22% of total traffic on slack.com. but it recorded a decrease in total website visitors by 0.39%
  • Other countries recorded the following contribution in total traffic in Japan (4.48%) increased by 29.34%, India (9.95% increased by 1.32%, India (4.81%) decreased by 3.02%, The United Kingdom (4.38%) decreased by 1.24%, Canada (3.49%) increased by 0.65% and other countries collectively made around 46.15%.

Slack Statistics by Traffic Source

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  • According to Slack statistics, the highest rate of traffic towards slack.com is by direct search resulting in 94.74%.
  • Followed by 3.16% organic search, while 1.65% is from referrals of social media networks.
  • Furthermore, other traffic sources of slack.com are Social and Mail with 2.60% in each, paid search (0.14%), and Display (0.01%).

Slack Statistics by Social Media Referral Rate

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  • YouTube has the highest rate of social media referral rate of slack.com resulting in 21.07% than other social networks.
  • LinkedIn and Twitter contribute by 17.75% and 15.74% respectively.
  • Traffic sent by Facebook is 14.76% and Reddit by 8.71%.
  • Other social media networks of slack.com are collectively making 21.97%

 Conclusion

As of today after completing the article on Slack Statistics, it is clear that there are millions of users spread around the world. Slack has started becoming popular since the day it was launched and crossed millions of active users soon after. This app is termed as the greatest messaging tool of communication that has helped many businesses gain effective results along with bringing people together as a unified team. This article includes many effective statistics that hopefully will help in understanding the topic better.

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  • FAQ.

    Why slack is so popular among other apps?

    As of reports, as slack is a cloud based messaging communication tools that enables automation, transparency, collaboration, security, flexibility, and integration within businesses.

    What are best feature of slack?

    The best features of slack are followed by task listing management, projects friendly structure, enables easy and automated reminders, helps in integrating other tools, collaborates with posts, powerful search capabilities and customize shortcuts and slash commands.

    How many types of slack are available?

    Single slack workspace of small and medium sized companies includes “Free Slack”, “Pro Slack”, and “Business+ slack”.

    Barry Elad
    Barry Elad

    Barry is a lover of everything technology. Figuring out how the software works and creating content to shed more light on the value it offers users is his favorite pastime. When not evaluating apps or programs, he's busy trying out new healthy recipes, doing yoga, meditating, or taking nature walks with his little one.

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