Music + Widgets = Downloads
You know what I haven't seen in a while on the App Store? A widget making it to the top of the charts. Scrolling throug...
TikTok's Other Other App, Lemon8, Double!
Last week I looked at TikTok's other app - Capcut - as the talk of TikTok getting banned in the US intensify and CapCut ...
Will X Really Charge Every User? Its Revenue Growth May Hold the Answer
Elon Musk almost confirmed that soon, X will require a paid subscription in order to post on the platform. This is somet...
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Demand for Airbnb is At an All-Time High in 2024
Airbnb is having a great quarter! The best quarter! I've used Airbnb over the last few years as a proxy to quot;things ...
Dating Apps are Growing Fast - But Not the Ones You Expect
Dating apps Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge are some of the highest earning apps in the US App Store having been in the top 15...
Fallout's TV/Mobile Crossover Leads to a Massive Revenue Increase
Fallout, a new TV show based on the popular game series with the same name, premiered on Amazon Prime earlier this month...
Top News Apps Had The Best Quarter of Revenue EVER
Newspapers went through a critical transformation over the last decade that saw physical newspapers go the way of the do...
LinkedIn Figured It Out and Revenue is at an All-Time High Beating X and Snapchat
I've been looking at X's and Snapchat's revenue for months as they are the early adopters of charging in social media, b...
TikTok's Video Editor is Eating Up the Market as YoY Revenue Rises 412%
TikTok might get banned in the US, which could lead to other countries banning it, and in a way, the beginning of the en...
Brawl Stars Has Been Fighting To Prove Itself Since Soft-Launch — and It's Working
Supercell has a new champion! Brawl Stars is now Supercell's biggest earner - Here's how we got here.
WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal Are Out! China Bans Messaging Apps as Demand for VPNs Skyrockets
China is waging war on messaging apps. Not all, but the most popular ones. Late Thursday night, China asked Apple to re...
Why is Paramount+ Shutting Down the Showtime Streaming App?
Success for a streaming app isn't a matter of luck but rather content (and looooots of marketing). That's why Max (HBO's...
Brawl Stars Takes March - The Most Downloaded Games in the World
March is behind us which means it's time to crunch the numbers and rank the most downloaded mobile games in the world fo...
How High Will Monopoly Go? The Highest Earning Games in the World
March was a mega month for game revenue! I crunched the numbers and ranked the biggest winners. Unlike with downloads...
Short Drama Apps Turn Quibi’s Failure into a $146M Success in Q1, With Revenue Surging 56% Last Month Alone
Short dramas are the latest trend on the App Store and Google Play, commanding millions in consumer spending in Q1.
ChatGPT's Mobile Revenue Trades Stagnation for Growth
Has ChatGPT's revenue hit double digits yet? Yes. Is revenue still growing? Yes! Double digits? Yes! March was a good m...
It's Green, Grouchy, and Growing! The Highest Earning Apps in the March
March is behind us and even though it feels like we just finished analyzing February's results, which we did last week, ...
Facebook is What??? The Most Downloaded Apps in March
This isn't an April's fool's joke - Facebook was the most downloaded app in the world in March. I crunched the numbers ...
There are No New Apps for the Apple Vision Pro...
There's no easy way to say this but the Apple Vision Pro isn't the hit we all wanted it to be. I'm sure that'll change w...
March was a Good Month for X
I've been analyzing Twitter's (now X's) revenue ever since Twitter Blue came out. That feels like a lifetime ago in inte...
Hello Peacock - The Highest Earning Apps in the World
March is almost behind us, but before it goes we need to rank the highest-earning apps in February! I did that and I'm h...
Pass Go, Collect $108M - The Highest Earning Games in the World
I crunched through every mobile game on the App Store and ranked them all by revenue in February. Here are the results:...
Checking In - Is Telegram's Revenue Still Growing?
Telegram is one of three apps I've been following closely since they started monetizing their free users. X and Snapchat...
Truth Social Had a Big IPO - Are the Downloads There to Back it Up?
Truth Social, Donald Trump's social network, went public this week. This is the second social media IPO in the last few ...
