In January 2023, it was estimated that Discord had approximately *** million monthly active users (MAU), up by ***** percent compared to the *** million users registered as of September 2021. In 2020, the year in which Discord started onboarding new users eager to communicate due to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Discord counted an estimated 100 million MAU. Discord's monthly active users were reported to grow by ** million between 2020 and 2021, while estimates for 2022 and 2023 appear to show a slowing growth trend. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform and social media where users can create thematic or regional-based groups, called servers.

In January 2023, it was estimated that Discord had approximately *** million registered users, up by over ** percent compared to the *** million users reported in June 2020. Between 2017 and 2020, users registering to join the popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform and social media Discord grew from ** million to approximately *** million. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is known to be a gamers-first online space and community hosting platform, as it allows users to communicate both via chat and voice channels, as well as live stream gaming sessions.

Social and VoIP platform Discord was launched in 2015 as a gamers-friendly communication platform, but it also acquired popularity among non-gaming audiences in recent years. The platform allows users to create or join thematic communities called servers, and as of April 2024, the Midjourney server was the most popular community on Discord, with over **** million members. Midjourney is an AI-powered text-to-image tool, which is accessible via a Discord bot on the official Discord server of the program. The second most popular Discord server was LimeWire, with *** million members. Not just a gamers’ space: Discord for communities While gaming servers are still among the most popular online spaces on the platform – with communities such as Valorant and the official Genshin Impact server amassing almost one million users respectively as of the beginning of 2023 – Discord is also a space for several different communities to come together. Educational servers, which have been growing on the platform since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, range from language learning to hacking and programming, with the server “English” counting over *** thousand Discord users, and the server for Python counting ***** thousand users, respectively. Cross-platform communities include online spaces in which users share content from other social media, such as affiliated Reddit servers and TikTok-based communities. As of January 2023, TikTok videos and TikTok Zone were the most popular music servers on Discord, with *** thousand and *** thousand registered resharing content from the popular social video platform. Discord servers: the challenge of providing self-managed online spaces As Discord is composed by both public and private groups, moderating servers and enforcing the company’s Terms of Services represents a challenge. According to Discord, ** percent of the company’s employees are assigned to safety and moderation. However, servers on the platform are also moderated in their day-to-day activity by volunteer moderators. While Discord has repeatedly reported they do not have access to the four billion messages users exchange daily on the platform, in 2017 the company attracted global attention when it was revealed that it was used by alt-right groups in the United States to plan and organize the “Unite the Right 2.0” rally in Virginia, which culminated with a terroristic attack that left one dead and several wounded. Since then, Discord has engaged in several campaigns to remove servers classified as promulgating violent extremism: during the third quarter of 2022, *** servers were proactively removed from the platform due to violent extremism by the company’s safety and moderation team, while *** servers were reactively removed after users’ report.

Introduction

Discord Statistics: Discord is a popular communication app where people can chat using text, voice, or video. You can talk one-on-one or join groups called “servers†to chat with others. Over time, Discord has become a popular place for all types of online groups, including gamers, students, artists, and social circles. Today, it has more than 150 million active users each month and is widely used by businesses and content creators to connect with their communities. Discord was released on May 13, 2015, and was created by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy.

This article presents several analyses from different perspectives, including features such as servers, channels, and screen sharing. Discord offers a flexible space for people to interact, collaborate, and build online communities in real time.

How many people are registered on Discord?

Between May 2017 and June 2020, the gaming chat app increased its registered user number from 45 million to over 300 million. In comparison, approximately 150 million Discord users were active on the platform every month in September 2021. According to surveys conducted among messenger users in July 2022, 14 percent of respondents in the United States, as well as 10 percent of respondents in the United Kingdom reported engaging with Discord.

A gamers-first communication platform Discord is a social and voice-over-internet platform (VoIP) that was tailor-made to answer the needs of online gamers. The platform, which was launched in 2015, allows users to join or create their communities (called ‘servers’) in which they can add specific channels for voice, video, and text communication. Having seen its origins, it does not come as a surprise that over six in 10 Discord users listed technology and gaming as their main interests. Additionally, the most popular servers on the platforms are dedicated to popular online games Valorant and Apex Legend, with 950 thousand and 740 thousand members in August 2022.

Discord Inc. While Discord has not released its revenue numbers, the company has secured almost one billion U.S. dollars in funding across 16 rounds as of March 2022. In April 2021, Discord was offered 12 billion U.S. dollars from Microsoft, but rejected the offer and has been estimated to be looking to enter the public market in the next years. The platform’s business model does not include online advertising, as Discord monetizes exclusively by direct user subscriptions to its premium product Discord Nitro. In 2021, Discord generated 95 million U.S. dollars in revenues from its mobile app alone.

As of September 2021, Discord was counting approximately 150 million monthly active users (MAU) worldwide. This represents an increase of 50 million users from June 2020. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is a social and communication platform that allows users to make video and over-the-internet voice calls, as well as create invite-only communities called "servers." Thanks to its screen sharing and live streaming features, the platform is also used by gamers and mobile video games players worldwide to stream content to a selected audience.

As of February 2024, users between the ages of 25 to 34 years accounted for the biggest share of Discord.com users worldwide, making up over 53.4 percent of the platform's audience. Younger users between 16 and 24 years made up **** percent of the Discord user base. Discord is a gamers-friendly group communication platform launched in 2015. In the first quarter of 2022, over ** percent of users on Discord were men.

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During the third quarter of 2024, around 66.3 percent of Discord users were men. By comparison, women using the communication and social media platform were approximately 32.6 percent. In 2023, it was estimated that there were 19 million active servers on Discord.

In August 2022, communication and social platform Discord reported its users exchanged approximately ************ messages daily. This represents an increase from the *** million daily messages the platform saw in May 2018. The popular communication platform for gamers was launched in 2015 and counted around ** million messages exchanged after one year.

According to a survey of online users conducted in September 2022 in the United States, 36 percent of respondents who played video games daily or weekly used Discord, while 64 percent of frequent gamers did not do so. Additionally, 16 percent of respondents who reported playing video games monthly or occasionally also used Discord. Discord is a social platform initially launched to supply gamers with voice and chat communication features not bounded to specific game experiences. As of September 2022, five percent of U.S. respondents who reported never playing video games were using Discord, a sign that the platform adoption among non-gaming community is improving compared to 2021.

In May 2023, an online survey in the United States found that ***** percent of Hispanic used voice-over-the-internet and communication social platform Discord multiple times per day. Around *** percent of Black respondents reported engaging with Discord multiple times a day, while ***** percent reported engaging with the platform once per week.

In March 2024, users in the United States amassed almost *** million visits to the popular gaming-focused communication platform Discord. Brazil followed, with users in the country generating over ** million visits during the examined month, while India had almost ** million monthly visits. Discord was launched in 2015 as a social and group communication platform and it includes voice, text, video, and community integrations for users to interact with each other.

According to a March 2023 survey, Spotify was the platform with highest usage by social media users in Spain, amounting to more than one hour and a half of daily time. Meanwhile, Twitch, Discord, and WhatsApp were accessed for more than one hour and 20 minutes daily, whereas TikTok and YouTube were accessed for around 79 and 76 minutes a day each.

As of May 2024, the ************* was the leading market for social media and voice-over the internet provider Discord, with approximately ** percent of all the platform's mobile in-app revenues generated in the country. ****** and ****************** followed, generating approximately **** and ***** percent of Discord revenues, respectively. Discord, which was estimated to have around *** million monthly active users worldwide as of January 2023, is a free platform but offers users the possibility to subscribe for premium features and functionalities.

In March 2024, Discord.com saw approximately *** million monthly website visits from users worldwide. Launched in 2015, Discord is a social and group communication platform that allows users to create their invite-only communities called servers, or join dedicated thematic servers. While Discord was launched as a gamers-first communication platform, it experienced an increase in popularity also among non-gaming communities during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

In May 2023, an online survey in the United States found that fiver percent of male users engaged with voice-over-the-internet and communication social platform Discord multiple times a day. Around two percent of female respondents reported using Discord a few times per month or a few times per week as of the examined period.

In the first quarter of 2022, Facebook Messenger reported the largest share of daily active users in the United States among the leading streaming apps examined. The Meta-owned chat and call platform had a share of 52 percent of U.S. users engaging with the app daily, down from 58 percent in the same quarter in 2020. WhatsApp was the second most-used app, with 26 percent daily users share in the latest reported period, while daily active users on Discord experienced a modest increase between 2020 and 2021.

In May 2023, an online survey in the United States found that only one in ten respondents aged between 18 and 34 years used voice-over-the-internet and communication social platform Discord multiple times a day. Around 65 percent of respondents in the youngest examined demographic group reported never using Discord on monthly basis. Both frequency and overall usage of Discord decreased among older demographic groups.

Discord was launched as a gamer-friendly communication platform, but this vibrant online environment has evolved to host much more than gaming. As of August 2024, Discord counted five distinct server categories, for a total of over 28,400 thousand servers. The largest number of servers on the platform were in gaming communities—approximately 21,000 thousand servers. Entertainment servers came in second, while education servers were around two thousand.