On the Record · Line
Line competitors, on the record
The companies Line names as competitors in its annual reports, 2017 to 2019, and the companies that name Line, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Line names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Apple | 2019 |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | |
| Tencent | 2019 |
| 2019 | |
| Yahoo Japan | 2019 |
In its own words
Apple, Tencent
Word for word“We face direct competition from other mobile messaging service providers such as Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger and Tencent’s WeChat, as well as mobile messaging services for specific operating platforms such as Apple’s iMessage.” 20-F for 2019
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo Japan
Word for word“We also face significant competition in almost every aspect of our business, including from companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo Japan.” 20-F for 2019
Who names Line
Companies whose own annual reports name Line as a competitor.
Word for word“For instance, we face competition from companies like Kakao, LINE, Naver (including Snow), and Tencent in Asia.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We compete for our audience against a variety of social networking platforms, messaging companies and media companies, some of which have greater financial resources, larger audiences or more established relationships with advertisers, such as Meta (including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), Alphabet (including Google and YouTube), Microsoft (including LinkedIn), Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest and Yahoo, or in certain regions WeChat, Kakao and Line.” 10-K for 2021
Read from Line’s annual reports (20-F for 2019, 20-F for 2018, 20-F for 2017) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2020-03-27. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.