AppLovin Absorbs MoPub, Takes Aim at Facebook
I usually focus on trends in apps and games, but once in a while, a service provider makes a move I see as pivotal, an...
Home Improvement is (Also) Going Mobile!
When you're stuck at home all day, you start to see all the things you said you'd fix or improve. And after you stare ...
Apple's Now Allowing Users to Rate Its Pre-Installed Apps—Here are the Numbers
Apple has quietly rolled out the ability to rate pre-instaleld apps such as the Calculator and Mail. Here's how users are rating them.
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Apple Wants to Know What You Think
Apple quietly rolled out a small change with an interesting impact a couple of weeks ago. They [made it possible to ra...
Hulu’s Unbelievable Month
I look at streamers fairly often, and most of the attention goes to HBO Max and Disney, the two fairly new apps that h...
Netflix Hits Another One Out of the Park
Original content has been the name of the game for a long time now. It's what's keeping HBO Max and Disney at the top ...
A Better Way to Learn Math?
Like most things, tutoring is moving in-app. Photomath has been the clear leader in the math tutoring space for a very...
A Look at the Numbers Behind Pokémon Unite
Last week I looked at the latest release from Pokmon. It was too new so we didn't have too much in the form of numbers...
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...
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...
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...
The Top Mobile Apps in August by Downloads and Revenue
We crunched the numbers and ranked the apps with the most downloads and revenue across the App Store and Google Play in August 2021.
Instagram Beats TikTok for Second Month
Can you believe August is all over already? Feels like summer just flew by this year. A side "benefit" of limited mobi...
Meesho Beats Shopee, SHEIN, and Amazon!
The top charts change a lot less often these days, so we're adding a new section to our monthly report which focuses o...
Top App Revenue Grows 21% in August
When it comes to money, while the list may seem a lot like [that for July](/resources/insights/most-downloaded-apps-ju...
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...
