MAX took the first place in terms of activity among Russian users

The national messenger MAX took the first place in terms of average usage time among Russian users. This is evidenced by data from Mediascope.

"The total time of Russian users on MAX in April of this year (from April 1 to April 12) exceeded 2 billion minutes per day. Thus, a Russian user spends an average of 30 minutes on the Internet every day," the company said.

According to the internal statistics of the platform provided by TASS, by the end of March 2026, the daily reach of the messenger, taking into account the audience in the CIS countries, amounted to more than 80 million people. The total number of app installations since its launch has exceeded 110 million.

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On April 16, the MAX press service reported that 7 million foreign users had registered on the digital platform. It was noted that since the beginning of this year, users from abroad have sent more than 1 billion messages, as well as made 220 million calls.