Royal Match Overtakes King's Candy Crush for the First Time
Candy Crush Saga has been the King, no pun intended, of matching games for a loooooong time. But good things can't go on...
WhatsApp's Multi-Year Download Decline Finally Stopped
Meta's WhatsApp, the messenger that's so popular outside of the US some governments rely on it to communicate, has been ...
Pokemon Sleep Crosses 2,000,000 Downloads
Snorlax is a sleepy Pokemon and also the icon of a new app, not a game, that uses the Pokemon brand to track your sleepi...
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TikTok is Testing a New Music Service - Should Spotify be Concerned?
Surprise surprise, TikTok is getting into the music streaming business! Earlier this month, ByteDance soft launched Tik...
Fast Fashion SHEIN Wants to IPO
Fast fashion retailer SHEIN had an amazing 2023 in terms of revenue and that's making some think it will be going public...
Monopoly GO's Revenue Doubles in July Hitting Record Highs
Monopoly Go is one of the fastest-growing mobile games right now. If you're not familiar, Monopoly Go is a mobile versio...
Which Countries Publish the Most Mobile Games?
I analyzed all of the mobile games on the App Store and Google Play to answer a simple question - which countries publis...
India Taxes Game Developers - How Much Will They Lose?
Earlier this month, the government of India announced it would soon impose a 28 tax on all betting games. This sent shoc...
Are Widgets Making a Comeback? Widgetable is!
Remember when widgets were new and mega hot? When Widgetsmith earned 3M per month?? Well, that was back in 2020. Downloa...
Reddit Isn't the Same After Apollo
Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo. Reddit has recently closed off its API to 3rd party developers and in the process, el...
ChatGPT Downloads Dropped 27% in the Last Month - Where's Revenue?
ChatGPT is no doubt one of the most important things that happened in technology this year. Controversial, sure, but als...
Out of Gas - Was Discord's Acquisition All Snake Oil?
Last year, Gas, an anonymous messaging app for teens, rose to the top of the charts very quickly. Before that momentum ...
By the Numbers: Analyzing App Downloads in the App Store and Google Play
How many apps get a thousand downloads a month? How about 100, or a million? That's the kind of question I get asked ver...
This Latest TikTok Success Story Grew Revenue 5x in a Week
Threads, Instagram's Twitter clone became the 1 app in the App Store on launch and seemed like it would be there for a l...
Did Prime Day Help Amazon Get Ahead of Newer Rivals?
Amazon's annual shopping event, Prime Day, took place this week and ushered 48 hours of exclusive deals and discounts ac...
Is Anyone Still Reading Real Books?
A few weeks ago, I looked at the amazing revenue growth of Audible, Amazon's audiobook arm. The app earned 33M of net re...
7-Eleven's Free Slurpee Day Wasn't a Big Hit...
7-Eleven has been giving away free Slurpees, the company's flagship drink, on July 11th for more than 20 years. In 2019 ...
Twitter's Weekend Blunder Led Hundreds of Thousands to Bluesky and Truth Social
Last weekend was rough for Twitter. On Saturday, many users started getting errors while scrolling through their feeds. ...
Instagram's Copy of Twitter's Blue Check Raked In More than $15M so Far
Earlier this year, when everyone was dunking on Twitter's 8 blue checkmark, Instagram decided it was a feature worth cop...
AI All the Way - The Most Downloaded Apps in June
I crunched the numbers and ranked the most downloaded apps in the world. I was most curious about ChatGPT, the official ...
The Same but Lower - The Most Downloaded Games in June
June is officially behind us, which means it's time to crunch the numbers and rank the most downloaded games in the worl...
Scooters Lose Their Hype - Downloads Down Post-Pandemic
Scooter rental apps are one of my favorite topics to look at during the summer. Downloads peak in August, and over the l...
Unpacking the App Store's Million-Dollar Monthly Club
How many apps and games do you think make more than a million dollars on the App Store? And for the sake of consistency,...
TikTok's Billion Dollar Year
TikTok's revenue growth is an interesting trend to look at. While the trend has almost always been curving up the way e...
