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#156 - Why the US won't ban TikTok, AI chatbots take over mobile, the joy of subscriptions, and more!
The US has been talking about banning Chinese-owned TikTok for a few years now. It got tense there for a minute in 202...
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In a very short span of four months, AI has made its way into the mainstream thanks to the magic of ChatGPT. It's beco...
News broke yesterday that Cash App, which is owned by Block (aka Square), is in trouble thanks to a variety of shady b...
[Last month](https://appfigures.com/resources/insights/20230224/3-how-did-a-prayer-app-get-to-the-top-of-the-app-store...
LinkedIn's mobile revenue app has been on an up-and-to-the-right journey for several years now, growing as much as 5x ...
#155 - 2023 is shaping up to be a big year for revenue in the App Store. Maybe even for Twitter...
February is behind us, which means it's time to check in on my favorite social network's mobile revenue. I've been wa...
Another fairly recent subscription I've been keeping an eye on is Snapchat, which I called a paid beta when it first l...
Did you think the streaming race is over? That HBO Max and Disney won while the others flail? You'd think that if yo...
I've been following the rise of CapCut, TikTok's video editing app, for quite a while now. CapCut launched as a free...
Temu has been on the App Store since September of last year, but unlike many most other apps that come and go, Temu di...
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#154 - Twitter Blue launched in Japan, Audible and Google Photos are off to a strong start, a look into App Preview videos, and more!
February is behind us, which means it's time to look at Twitter's mobile revenue! Actually, not this week - I want to ...
Earlier this week I wrote a keyword teardown for the keyword "audiobooks". The teardown was inspired by so many people...
Google Photos is one app I rarely come across when looking for exciting apps or trends. I'm not entirely sure why, but...
Have you heard anything interesting about AR recently? I haven't... Just a few short years ago, however, Augmented Rea...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video should be worth at least a thousand pictures, or a million words (depe...
The most common ASO mistake, and also the simplest one to fix, is what I call the cardinal sin of ASO. Are you a sinner?
When the Apple TV App Store opened up in 2015 it had a lot of promise. Knowing how hard it is to develop for big game ...
#153 - Authenticator apps are all the rage right now, news fatigue is real, Apple Search Ads is responsible for the top apps, and more!
Twitter recently made a security change that forced its non-paying users who use 2-factor authentication to start usin...
Microsoft has been riding the ChatGPT wave for a few weeks now. Last week I looked at downloads of the official Bing a...
It's always exciting to see a new icon making it to the top of the App Store. I have nothing against Temu and TikTok b...