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...
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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 ...
#13 - Do This if You Don't Want Downloads
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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...
#10 - When It's All the Same
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This Week in Apps #76 - Reaching New Highs
Scooter Rantals Skyrocket, Headspace, Discord and Peacock Soar, and the Mac App Store...
Peacock Sets a New Bar
I look at streaming apps a lot and often, and while the big pairmdash;HBO Max and Disneymdash;continue to hold their l...
Discord's Revenue Hits New High
Another popular app that's hit a new high is Discord, the gamer-friendly chat app that declined a biiiig offer from Mi...
Why Did Headspace Do That???
Earlier this week, popular meditation app Headspace [announced it's merging](https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/25/headspa...
Is the Mac App Store Thriving?
I rarely talk about the Mac App Store, and that's because not much goes on there... But this week, I wanted to quantif...
