Survey of 1,000 Americans Show They Are Spending More Time Than Ever on Email
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 15, 2014) - A study of consumer email behavior released today by My.com reveals email is more prevalent than ever in our lives, and still growing. The study found that 90% of email users admit to checking their email "compulsively" -- behavior that includes checking email first thing in the morning, last thing at night, during meals and even during conversations. The report also revealed that email is here to stay, with an expected 27% increase (from 3.9 billion to 4.9 billion accounts) in email accounts worldwide expected in 2014.
The study was led by My.com, developers of myMail, a free mobile email client with an intuitive UI that lets users manage all their email accounts including Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com, Hotmail, MSN and @my.com. My.com conducted the survey of 1,000 American internet users of varying demographics in April 2014 to help further understand the role mobile email plays in consumers' lives.
The study's key findings on email use include:
"We are seeing this paradox where people use email, but don't feel that it meets their modern, mobile needs," says Dmitry Grishin, Co-founder and CEO of Mail.Ru Group. "To make email better, we needed to move beyond the stale iteration tied to traditional desktops, and go mobile-first and mobile-only. myMail and @my.com can only be accessed from a smartphone or tablet. No password. This is the future of email, as told by everyday email users."
For more information on the study or for access to an infographic depicting these and other data points, visit http://blog.my.com/an-open-email-to-email/.
About My.com
My.com is a subsidiary of Mail.Ru Group, one of the largest Internet companies in the world with an audience of more than 100 million users (comScore, September 2013). Mail.Ru is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (
My.com is building an integrated communication and entertainment platform, dubbed 'Communitainment,' beginning with a family of mobile services and games. My.com's mobile communications apps -- myMail and myChat -- provide multiple email account management and messaging, and myGames is a growing collection of mobile and PC game experiences.
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