#194 - Beeper is challenging Apple, GTA is delivering big time for Netflix, Pokémon Sleep is crushing it, TikTok hit a new all-time high, and more.
Sleep tracking is a sleeper industry that's grown 28 to more than 22M downloads in 2023. Jokes aside, demand for sleep-t...
Netflix has been quietly assembling a massive portfolio of games and this week, one of its newest titles made it to the ...
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November is long gone, which means it's time to rank the highest-earning apps in the world for the month, and while the ...
Monopoly Go is back as the highest-earning mobile game in the world in November, reclaiming the lead from China's King o...
We live in a world where green and blue bubbles can spark heated debates. That's a problem Beeper Mini is trying to solv...
#193 - Scooter rentals are going bye bye, ChatGPT is back big time, China continues to grow, and more.
The rise of micro-mobility, or scooter rentals as most know them, has been a very interesting trend to observe over the ...
We're well into December, which means it's time to rank the most downloaded apps in the world in November. Downloads ar...
An app from China dominated downloads in the App Store in November as hyper casuals are making a comeback. I crunched t...
Although demand for mental health apps Calm and Headspace has been on the decline since 2020, revenue wasn't - quite the...
ChatGPT has been growing like wildfire. So fast that last month, its parent OpenAI had to pause taking new paid subscrib...
#192 - November was a strong month across the board leading Twitter/X, Snapchat, Shop, and Gmail to new all-time highs. Plus an unknown game that took the App Store by storm.
Shopify had a massive Black Friday this year, with purchases peaking at 4.2M per minute. Yes, minute. That's insane! So...
2023 has been nothing less than chaos for Twitter, which goes by X now but all the old-timers like me just can't not cal...
When Snapchat's paid subscription went live I said no one would pay to be a beta tester. More than a year later, Snapcha...
I keep a close watch on the top app lists, and when a newcomer shows up, I immediately try to figure out what's going on...
Something most people don't know is that Gmail, the inbox everyone is using, offers in-app purchases on the App Store. ...
#191 - ChatGPT is losing millions, Amazon didn't win Black Friday, why ID by amo didn't take off, and more!
A lot has happened to everyone's favorite AI over the last couple of weeks. The big executive/board battle is what most ...
Threads, Instagram's response to Twitter (aka X, but I still call it Twitter), has seen downloads nearly double over the...
2023 hasn't been an amazing year for Amazon's downloads. Maybe everyone already has the app? Maybe there's more shopping...
Social apps have a pretty quot;standardquot; growth hack that's not that user-friendly but is pretty much rocket fuel fo...
Buy Now Pay Later was all the rage a couple of years ago. What's better than not having to pay for your purchases right ...
I crunched the numbers and ranked the highest-earning mobile games in the world in October and September's trend seems t...
Disney and Hulu are planning to merge into a single streaming service and that's a really big deal because Hulu, which s...