American adults have used a chatbot. - 266% Alexa Skill Growth in U.S. by end 2017 - 56 Million Smart Speaker Sales in 2018 - Half of smartphone users use assistants Users Prefer Chatbots Over Apps When Communicating with Companies API.AI acquired by Google, became Dialogflow, with more and more developers using it sources : https://www.voicebot.ai, http://www.convinceandconvert.com/