A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Instant messaging in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Instant messaging has an estimated audience of 11,040,909 people in Italy.
The average Instant messaging fan in Italy is 40.2 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Lombardy.
The audience is concentrated in Lombardy, Lazio, Campania.
Top brand affinities include WhatsApp, Videotelephony, Erlang (programming language), with strongest over-indexing on WhatsApp (4.16× the country average).
Demographically, the Instant messaging audience skews balanced with an average age of 40.2, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Price Sensitivity, Social Media Usage.
Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 20 regions tracked by Rascasse.
The typical Instant messaging fan in Italy is balanced, around 40.2 years old, with strong Price Sensitivity tendencies and a notable affinity for WhatsApp.
The key figures that characterise the Instant messaging profile in Italy.
50.9% are female, 49.1% are male, average age 40.2.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Female | 50.9% |
| Male | 49.1% |
| Average age | 40.2 |
| Estimated audience size | 11,040,909 |
| Age bracket | Share | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16-19 | 19% | |
| 20-29 | 16% | |
| 30-39 | 22% | |
| 40-49 | 22% | |
| 50+ | 22% |
of the worldwide Instant messaging audience comes from Italy.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 19.0% |
| Brazil | 6.4% |
| India | 5.9% |
Where the Instant messaging audience in Italy is strongest.
| # | Region | Reach | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Molise | ~60K | 1.17× | |
| 02 | Basilicata | ~100K | 1.05× | |
| 03 | Aosta Valley | ~30K | 1.03× | |
| 04 | Sardinia | ~300K | 1.02× | |
| 05 | Umbria | ~200K | 1.02× | |
| 06 | Abruzzo | ~200K | 1.00× | |
| 07 | Calabria | ~300K | 0.99× | |
| 08 | Sicilia | ~900K | 0.98× | |
| 09 | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | ~200K | 0.98× | |
| 10 | Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol | ~200K | 0.98× | |
| 11 | Puglia | ~700K | 0.97× | |
| 12 | Liguria | ~300K | 0.96× | |
| 13 | Marche | ~300K | 0.96× | |
| 14 | Lazio | ~1.5M | 0.94× | |
| 15 | Tuscany | ~700K | 0.92× | |
| 16 | Campania | ~1M | 0.91× | |
| 17 | Piedmont | ~700K | 0.91× | |
| 18 | Emilia-Romagna | ~800K | 0.90× | |
| 19 | Veneto | ~800K | 0.90× | |
| 20 | Lombardy | ~1.5M | 0.81× |
The strongest cross-interests of the Instant messaging audience — brands, topics and people combined.
| # | · | Interest | Category | Affinity | × |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Erlang (programming language) | Technology & Electronics | 9.24× | ||
| 02 | Videotelephony | Technology & Electronics | 6.99× | ||
| 03 | Voice over IP | Technology & Electronics | 6.46× | ||
| 04 | Internet & Social Media | 4.16× | |||
| 05 | Conad | Shopping | 1.91× | ||
| 06 | Android (operating system) | Technology & Electronics | 1.76× | ||
| 07 | SuperEnalotto | Games | 1.74× | ||
| 08 | Pizza | Food & Beverages | 1.73× | ||
| 09 | UniCredit | Business & Career | 1.73× | ||
| 10 | Discount stores | Shopping | 1.69× | ||
| 11 | Desserts | Food & Beverages | 1.60× | ||
| 12 | World Wide Web | Internet & Social Media | 1.59× | ||
| 13 | Coupons | Shopping | 1.58× | ||
| 14 | God | Politics & Society | 1.57× | ||
| 15 | EBay | Shopping | 1.57× | ||
| 16 | Social network | Internet & Social Media | 1.55× | ||
| 17 | Shopping malls | Shopping | 1.54× | ||
| 18 | Hair products | Beauty & Wellness | 1.54× | ||
| 19 | Mobile phones | Technology & Electronics | 1.53× | ||
| 20 | Dresses | Fashion & Accessoires | 1.50× |
Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price Sensitivity | PREMIUM | 1.52× | |
| Social Media Usage | JOY | 1.35× | |
| Creativity | OPEN | 1.31× |
| Trait | Cluster | Deviation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Adopter Mentality | POWER | 0.88× | |
| Sustainability | BALANCE | 0.90× | |
| Pet Ownership | JOY | 0.96× |
Instant messaging has an estimated audience of 11,040,909 people in Italy, concentrated in Lombardy and Lazio.
50.9% of Instant messaging fans are female, 49.1% are male, with an average age of 40.2 years.
Instant messaging fans show strongest brand affinity for WhatsApp (4.16×), Videotelephony (6.99×), and Erlang (programming language) (9.24×) over the country average.
Instant messaging fans in Italy are most concentrated in Lombardy (reach ~1.5M), Lazio (reach ~1.5M), and Campania (reach ~1M). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.
Beyond Instant messaging itself, the audience over-indexes on Videotelephony (6.99×), Erlang (programming language) (9.24×), Voice over IP (6.46×), and Discount stores (1.69×) compared to the Italy average.
Related profiles, rankings and the same audience in other markets.
Audience size is the estimated number of people in Italy who actively search for Instant messaging. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.
This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.
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