Brave Browser users doubled again this year to over 50 million monthly active users

Say what you will about Brave Browser, but it is one of the few web browsers on the internet today that is seeing strong user gains year after year.

Last year, we reported that Brave doubled its monthly active users to over 20 million active users in any given month. This year, Brave reports that the monthly active user count has surpassed the 50 million mark in 2021.

Brave reached 50.2 million monthly active users and 15.5 million daily active users in December 2021, according to the blog post on the official site.

Brave Browser, which hasn’t been around for more than a few years, started reporting usage numbers in 2017 for the first time. Back then, Brave Browser had 1.2 million monthly active users. The number quadrupled to 5.9 million monthly active users in 2018, nearly doubled to 11.2 million in 2019, doubled again to 24.1 million in 2020, and now reached 50.2 million reported monthly active users in 2021.

Brave revealed several other metrics in the blog post that show considerable growth:

• Brave Search reached 2.3 billion annual queries.
• Verified creators increased 30% to a total of 1.3 million.
• Ad platform Brave revenue increased by factor 4 in the last 12 months.
• Over 8 million users earn BAT currency through Brave Rewards.
• Highest mobile browser growth in 2021 for browsers with more than 10 million downloads.
• Brave Ads campaigns have served 7.5 billion ad confirmation events since inception.

Brave introduced several new features to your browser and business. The company acquired the open search engine Tailcat in the first quarter of 2021 and launched the search product as Brave Search in the second quarter of 2021. Brave Search is advertised as a “standalone search option” with “unmatched privacy.”

The company integrated Brave Talk into the browser in the third quarter of 2021. Brave Talk is a video conferencing solution that provides users with unlimited video calls without sacrificing privacy according to Brave. The technology is provided by Jitsi and Brave released it as a free and premium version.

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Brave is growing on all fronts and is adding features to its browser and launching other products on a regular basis. It has managed to increase its usage share significantly in the last five years, but still captured only a small part of the market.

Mozilla, struggling to retain users, has more than four times the monthly active users. If Brave’s growth continues, it could overtake Mozilla by 2023 as long as monthly active users of the Firefox web browser remain stable.

Now you: Do you think Brave will overtake Firefox in two years, or will the browser’s growth slow down?

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