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This Week in Apps - Screaming at Chickens?
#227 - Netflix won the big fight, TikTok drives massive downloads for one game, games race to a billion, Bluesky overtakes X, and the upcoming mobile browser shakeup.
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This Week in Apps - Can Google Dethrone OpenAI?
#228 - Gemini hasn't caught up to ChatGPT, Disney+ and Hulu see massive churn, X wins Black Friday, and our monthly ranking of highest-earning and most downloaded apps in November.
Google Gemini Finally Comes to the App Store - Can it Catch Up ChatGPT?
Google has finally released Gemini, its ChatGPT competitor, as a standalone app on the App Store and I'm very curious to...
The REAL Reason Disney Stopped Subscriptions on the App Store…
It's been almost two months since Disney and Hulu stopped accepting new subscriptions on the App Store, joining other ap...
X Scores Its Biggest Day of Revenue During Black Friday
X ran a Black Friday promotion, something I haven't seen any other social platforms do, and I was sure it would not move...
Social Reigns Supreme - The Most Downloaded Apps in November
I crunched the numbers and ranked the most downloaded mobile apps in the world in November and the winner is... Insta...
ChatGPT Enters the Arena - The Highest-Earning Apps in November
I crunched the numbers and ranked the highest-earning mobile apps in the World in November, and the list is a bit differ...
📺 Activating Users to Drive App Revenue Growth with Hannah Parvaz from Aperture
Ariel and Hannah talk about the importance of kniowing when your users really start using your app (aka. activate)
Did Netflix Find a New Downloads Growth Hack?
Netflix pulled a Peacock move last week by getting into live sports - specifically, boxing, a sport not streamed by many...
TikTokers Screaming At Chickens Sent An Unlikely Game to #1 - The Most Downloaded Games in the World
How are the top mobile games in terms of scooping up new players doing? It's time to check out the latest monthly top 10...
Who Took The Monopoly Money? - The Highest Earning Games in the World
As 2024 winds down, the latest numbers are in, showing growth requires lots of work as some mobile games are thriving wh...
Who Will Gain from Google Selling Chrome?
Regulators in the US are forcing Google to sell Chrome, its web browser, to prevent being labeled a monopoly. It's one p...
Bluesky Hit 20M Users and Overtook X in App Downloads for the First Time
Bluesky, the other X, has been in the news a lot over the last few weeks because it started getting popular on and after...
This Week in Apps - It Finally Happened!
#226 - The highest earning apps break reached a new milestone, bitcoin gains for coinbase, did Robokiller's pricing strategy work? and more.
It Finally Happened! The Highest-Earning Apps in the World in October
I'm going to start this in reverse because the thing we've been waiting to happen has finally happened. If you've been f...
A Few New Faces! The Most Downloaded Apps in the World in October
October is behind us so we crunched the numbers and ranked the most downloaded mobile apps in the world. While I don't h...
Coinbase Hits 2024 Downloads Peak as Bitcoin's Value Explodes
It's been a wild couple of weeks for Bitcoin, which saw its price rise to more than 90K! Just when you thought people mo...
This Is What Happens When an App Doubls Its Price
Robokiller is the highest earning app of its kind. Our estimates show users spent 3.8M in-app in October - the most reve...
Breaking: The News Apps That Grew the Most on Election Day
There's been a lot of talk of people leaving major news outlets for the likes of X and Bluesky, but election week downlo...
This Week in Apps - Betting Big
#225 - How many people went non-traditional this election, X and ChatGPT saw their biggest month of revenue, some streaming platforms are stuggling to grow, and more.
The Numbers Behind Kalshi's and Polymarket's Mobile Surge
Election day has come and past and to say this time around was aaaaaaall different would be an understatement. Something...
X's Mobile Revenue is At an All-Time High
X was at the center of this election cycle. I know some of you love it and some hate it so I won't touch on anything rel...
Most Streaming Apps Aren't Growing - One Winner Surprised Me
I've been watching Disney and Hulu since the announcement that they're no longer taking new subscribers through the App ...
CapCut's Eating Up Video Editor Market Share
The last couple of years have been a rough year for video editing apps. I'm not talking about the 30 drop in demand or t...
A Record-Breaking October for ChatGPT
Over the past two years, ChatGPT has become more than just a helpful AI companion - it's turned into a revenue powerhous...
This Week in Apps - Native or Non-Native?
#224 - Is Non-Native app development on the rise in 2024? Disney+ and Hulu stop taking new subscriptions on the App Store, Arc Browser goes into maintenance mode, Bluesky takes a new investment round, and the challenge of companion AI apps.
