IPO Du Jour: Toast
We'll open this week's round-up by looking at a company I wasn't too familiar with until it went public this week. Tha...
Pokémon UNITE Brings Pockets Together
Pokmon UNITE landed in the App Store and Google Play this week after debuting on Nintendo's Switch in July. The title ...
Paid Apps are Dead
We tweeted a stat earlier in the week that surprised many people, and that's that the share of paid apps, those you ha...
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TikTok Delivers More Creator Revenue than Twitch in the U.S.
Twitch has been the top revenue generator for creators for a very long time. It was one of the first to enable paying ...
Dating App Revenue Grows 29% in Q3
Last for this week is a trend I've been talking about for a while now that we can see across a whole bunch of industri...
This Week in Apps #79 - Just Like a Game of Quidditch!
West is meeting east in a wonderful display of revenue, Clubhouse turns one, the streaming wars continue, and an update about the lockdown.
Wingardium Leviosa!
Harry Potter: Magic Awakening launched in China last week and took command of the App Store's Top Grossing chart very ...
Paramount+ Is Still In the Streaming Race
Remember Paramount, originally CBS Interactive, which rebranded back in March? Well, it's still in the streaming race,...
Happy Birthday Clubhouse
Audio-first social network Clubhouse celebrated its first birthday last week. What a ride it's been for the new concep...
Showing Off Your Vaccination Status
New York has been at the forefront of covid since the beginning. It's continuing to do that with its vaccine passport,...
Ticketmaster Downloads Rise to to Pre-Pandemic Levels
Speaking of the unlockdown, one app that has its downloads directly correlate with the lockdown is seeing things go ba...
This Week in Apps #78 - Where's All that Money Coming From?
More and more people move to app-first experiences, and they're bringing their wallets with them...
Genshin Impact Unlocks a Treasure
Genshin Impact recently released an update that gave it the biggest bump in revenue it's ever seen, and by a lot. ![]...
A Super Slow Start for Super Follows
[Twitter rolled out its Super Follows feature to some creators in the U.S. last week](https://blog.twitter.com/enus/to...
Top App Revenue Grew 21% in the U.S. in August
This week we published our monthly report of the [top apps by downloads and revenue](https://appfigures.com/resources/...
The Rise of WhatsApp Business
The most downloaded report also uncovered another interesting trend, and that's just how much growth there still is in...
The Thing About React Native...
Speaking of development... Yesterday we published some numbers around the usage of non-native frameworks React Native ...
This Week in Apps #77 - That's Not Going to Happen!
Korea dealt what may seem like a massive blow to Apple and Google this week, but I don't think it'll actually happen. Here's why.
How Much Apple & Google Stand to Lose in Korea
In what I want to say is one of the biggest moves made in the app industry as of late, the government of Korea will [r...
The Biggest Category in the Mac App Store is...
Last week's "revelation" that developers are shipping fewer Mac apps made the rounds and generated a few other questio...
This Meme Earned Big Money for TikTok
TikTok's U.S. revenue jumped to its highest single-day figure last week. And not by a little. It grew 50 from its las...
McDonald's Swaps Toys for Games
You know how I've been saying the world is shifting to start in-app? This week I have another example of that for you ...
China's Limits on Games Will Change Monetization
Last week China announced a new set of laws that aim to detach kids from the claws of technology by limiting the amoun...
This Week in Apps #75 - A Bunch of Firsts!
Apps are slowly becoming bringing everyone into the metaverse and brands are trying to stay ahead.
