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Ottino: Doodle receives 200 million visiting users annually

Gabriel Ottino · 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS · Apr 15, 2019 · at 3:51

Gabriel Ottino discusses the user scale and reach of scheduling platform Doodle with Nathan Latka.

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“We've grown to be yeah, two hundred million users in a year that are visiting Doodle right now.”

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The claim, plainly

Doodle receives 200 million visiting users per year as of 2019.

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Assessment

Official disclosures and press releases from Doodle's parent company, Tamedia (later TX Group AG), consistently confirm that Doodle had approximately 200 million annual visiting users in the 2018-2019 timeframe. In an August 20, 2018 press release, Tamedia reported that approximately 200 million people used Doodle annually, a figure reiterated in official corporate strategy communications by then-Chairman of the Board Samuel Hügli ('200 million per year, to be precise') and in an October 31, 2019 press release describing a worldwide user base of nearly 200 million.

Tamedia / TX Group press release from August 20, 2018, explicitly confirming that approximately 200 million people use Doodle annually alongside over 28 million monthly active users.
Tamedia corporate strategy statements by Board Chairman Samuel Hügli verifying annual traffic of '200 million [people] per year'.
Tamedia press release from October 31, 2019, documenting Doodle's worldwide user base of nearly 200 million.

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[1] tx.group [2] tx.group [3] doodle.com [4] tx.group [5] ppc.land [6] tx.group [7] researchgate.net [8] eqs-news.com

"Tamedia" annual report 2019 "Doodle" Tamedia annual report 2019 Doodle users OR visitors "200 million" "Doodle" site:tx.group OR site:tamedia.ch Tamedia annual report 2018 Doodle users OR visitors TX Group annual report 2019 Doodle 200 million OR users

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