HBO Max Breaks Ahead of Disney+ – The Highest Earning Apps in August
This month I crunched the numbers and ranked the highest earning apps in the US, where most of the money is on the App...
Telegram Reaches $1,000,000 MRR After 3 Months
Recently several apps that have been free for a long time started offering paid tiers in order to create a revenue str...
Elon Musk's Tweet Gives Zero a Surge of Downloads
Earlier in the week Twitter kingmaker Elon Musk did something he hasn't done in a while. Elon helped an app get downlo...
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Twitter's Recurring Revenue Grew Double Digits in August
Speaking of Elon! August is behind us which means it's time to take a look at Twitter's in-app revenue. I've been doin...
This Location Tracking App is Earning Millions of Dollars!
I love finding apps that hit new all-time highs, especially when those highs have a dollar sign in front of them, and ...
Trump is Driving Downloads Again, But Not to the App You'd Expect
Ex-president Donald Trump has commanded the news lately. I don't want to get into the politics of it, but I expected s...
Demand for Real Bank Apps Outpaces Virtual Bank Apps in 2022
Apps from Bank get downloads. Quite a few downloads. Growth wasn't amazing, but it was certainly stable. And then came...
BeReal is Now Posing a Clear Threat to Instagram's Growth
Instagram is prototyping a new feature that'll ask users to take pictures at a specific time and share them with their...
Peacock's Revenue Continues to Grow, But Not as Fast
Streaming apps are in a weird place right now. The last few years have been very kind to those who tried, but recently...
This Retailer (Finally) Figured Out Mobile, and Downloads Exploded!
Discounts are a great way to get people to take action. I looked at how restaurants do that more than once. Not all do...
Why is Amazon Ending Its Telehealth Service?
Amazon announced it's ending its Telehealth service, Amazon Care, this week. This is a big move for a service that was...
Back to School & Back to Normal
There's an app a lot of schools here in the US use to communicate with students called Remind. Every year around back-...
Diablo Immortal Hits a New Milestone Sooner Than Expected
A few weeks ago, Diablo Immortal, the mobile version of the game that shaped many childhoods, hit a new milestone. I...
Audible's Revenue is Skyrocketing in 2022
Are you an e-reader or a physical book kind of person? I'm the latter. There's something about paper that makes it eas...
It's Renewal time for Snapchat's New Subscription – Will They Renew?
Snapchat's new subscription service Snapchat has hit a critical moment in its short life renewal time. The honeymoo...
Strava's Revenue is Growing Faster than Ever this Year!
Apps buying apps is usually interesting news, so when I read that Strava bought another app, I immediately got excited...
Some Food Delivery Apps are Hitting Pandemic-Level Downloads
Back in April of 2020, when the pandemic hit and forced the US into lockdowns, demand for food-delivery apps hit new h...
Why is Clubhouse is Splitting Up?
Clubhouse, the OG audio-only social network that exploded in 2021 and started a new (but short-lived) trend, has announc...
Twitter's In-App Revenue Rebounded in July, But Ever So Slightly...
Twitter's new hellish quot;normalquot; continued in July as Elon pulled out of the deal he fought so hard to get and Twi...
The Same but Bigger – Ranking The Highest Earning Apps in July
This week, I ranked the highest earning apps in the US, where much of the money is, this list is almost an exact copy of...
TikTok Reclaims the Lead! The Most Downloaded Apps in the World in July
Time for our monthly ranking of the most downloaded apps in the world for July. The gist for July is that one app disapp...
What to Make of Unity's Love Triangle + The Numbers That Matter
A few weeks ago, Unity and ad network ironSource announced they're merging. I looked at the number of apps and games usi...
Another Overnight Sensation Comes and Goes - The Numbers Behind MD Vinyl
A new(ish) app jumped to the top of the App Store last week and in a true "overnight success" fashion, dropped far and...
The App That Won the Mega Millions Lottery
The Mega Millions lottery had its biggest jackpot, a whopping 1.3 billion. I'm not a lottery player, so I didn't care ...
