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Ariel Ariel
9/25/20

This is a single insight from This Week in Apps #28 - Widgets Are on Fire, Pinterest and Discord, Too!. Check out the full article for more insights.


There's a warm place in this newsletter for streaming services, and that's because right now, it's still a pretty hot niche to be in—especially the non-traditional area.

Last week it was Quibi (which is now trying to sell itself), and this week it's Peacock, NBC's free (with ads) service.

Peacock downloads in the App Store and on Google Play

Downloads on the App Store and Google Play shot up to the highest single-day downloads since launch week, with more than 86K estimated downloads on Sunday. That's nearly triple the downloads Peacock saw earlier in the month.

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