Meta's Threads is Making a Run for It - The Most Downloaded Apps in the World
December was a good month for Threads as daily downloads nearly tripled! Was that enough to make it the most downloaded ...
Demand for Mobile Games Rose 15% in December - The Most Downloaded Mobile Games in the World
Last month I hinted that demand for mobile games, which has been inching up in the last few months, should be growing in...
Touchdown Peacock! Everyone Paid to Stream Football Last Weekend
Streamer Peacock is having a blast growing up, and it looks like it found a great growth engine - Sports. This weekend,...
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Bye Bye Artifact - The AI News Feed That Couldn't
Last year, the founders of Instagram - yes, the Instagram - launched a brand new social app. Didn't hear about it? Well,...
This is Why Mosaic Dumped its Portfolio for $100M
Last week, Bending Spoons, the Italian app publisher that recently acquired Evernote, acquired a portfolio of apps for j...
Twitter's Revenue Crossed a Big Milestone in December
December is behind us which means it's time to check in on Twitter's mobile revenue, a monthly series I started back in ...
The Game That Could Have Been the Next Angry Birds But Wasn't...
If you've been around long enough to remember the humble beginnings of Angry Birds you'll remember a game that was fun b...
Massive Growth! The Highest-Earning Mobile Games in December
We crunched the numbers and ranked the highest-earning mobile games across the App Store and Google Play in December 2023.
Is the Meta Quest Still in Demand Now that Apple's Vision Pro is Right Around the Corner?
2023 was an interesting year for virtual reality headsets. Meta's Quest was the popular option coming into the year but ...
Forget Selfies, Digital Picture Frames are This Year's Surprise Holiday Hit
Selfie apps have been a dominant trend in apps for a couple of years now, and this holiday season I found a similar tren...
Amazon Alexa's Worst Holiday Season So Far
AI dominated much of 2023 thanks to ChatGPT, but if we look back to previous years, talking of AI usually meant quot;sma...
Duolingo is Speaking the Language of Success - Here are the Numbers
It seems like everyone was trying to learn a language in 2023, and there's one app at the center of that - Duolingo! Du...
Peacock's Revenue Nearly Doubled in 2023 - How Does it Compare to the Rest?
The streaming race, which I foolishly called over back in 2022, is far from finished. 2023 was a busy year for the top ...
This New Sleep Tracker is Outpacing Every Other Competitor
Sleep tracking is a sleeper industry that's grown 28 to more than 22M downloads in 2023. Jokes aside, demand for sleep-t...
GTA Delivers for Netflix's Growing Game Portfolio
Netflix has been quietly assembling a massive portfolio of games and this week, one of its newest titles made it to the ...
TikTok's Biggest Haul - The Highest Earning Apps in November
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 at It - The Highest Earning Mobile Games in November
Monopoly Go is back as the highest-earning mobile game in the world in November, reclaiming the lead from China's King o...
Does Anyone Want Beeper Mini, the App That's Tussling with Apple Right Now?
We live in a world where green and blue bubbles can spark heated debates. That's a problem Beeper Mini is trying to solv...
Bird is Getting Delisted - What Went Wrong for the Micro Mobility Star?
The rise of micro-mobility, or scooter rentals as most know them, has been a very interesting trend to observe over the ...
ChatGPT Finally Made It - The Most Downloaded Apps in November
We're well into December, which means it's time to rank the most downloaded apps in the world in November. Downloads ar...
China's Shifting Trends - The Most Downloaded Games in November
An app from China dominated downloads in the App Store in November as hyper casuals are making a comeback. I crunched t...
Demand for Mental Health Apps is Almost Gone
Although demand for mental health apps Calm and Headspace has been on the decline since 2020, revenue wasn't - quite the...
ChatGPT Unpaused Paid SUbscriptions and Revenue Is at an All-Time High
ChatGPT has been growing like wildfire. So fast that last month, its parent OpenAI had to pause taking new paid subscrib...
'Tis the Season and Small Businesses Are Winning
Shopify had a massive Black Friday this year, with purchases peaking at 4.2M per minute. Yes, minute. That's insane! So...
