What Reddit's Year in Revenue Means for the Future of Creators
You know who else had a magnificent month? Reddit. Although Reddit has been around for what feels like forever but h...
Twitter's Making Money!
A few months ago, Twitter launched Super Follows, a way for users to subscribe to exclusive content from creators. If ...
This Week in Apps #91 - The End of an Era
Instagram is gaining on TikTok, but not where it matters. Twitch isn't looking good, Ticket Master beats the pandemic, and more.
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A Year of Clubhouse
2021 started with lots of talk about Clubhouse, a then-new service with the novel idea of connecting people via audio-...
TikTok Lets Instagram Get Ahead...
Video is undoubtedly one of the hottest trends at the moment. One TikTok has mainly commanded for several years now. ...
This Week in Apps #90 - Everything's Big!
Supercell tried to go big, Black Friday was big, Scanners make big money, Apple cut a big chunk, and TikTok had a big day.
MrBeast Broke YouTube, But... Did He Also Break Mobile?
I love me a good influencer marketing campaign, and last week one of the most ambitious ones I've seen in a while went...
TikTok is About to Break the App Store
TikTok hit a significant milestone this week that even though I wanted to skip because I've been talking about them a...
TikTok's Revenue Grew Double-Digits — Again!
TikTok's in a tough battle for downloads with rival Instagram, and being banned in India isn't helping. At all. But wh...
This Week in Apps #84 - Can't Stop Won't Stop
Growth is a wondeful thing, and one country seems to be the source of a lot of it. That, and more, in this week's roundup.
This Week in Apps #83 - Will the HomePod Kill Christmas for Google and Amazon (Again)?
Creators and content are the name of the game in the store, and the money simply follows. This week's no exception.
LinkedIn Dumps its 2nd Largest Market
LinkedIn announced yesterday that it'd stop its operation in China. It's not that surprising of a move considering Lin...
Twitter's App Revenue Got a Bump Last Week
It's been a little over a month since Twitter released Super Follows. If you recall, the launch was mostly meh in term...
It Finally Happened! TikTok Creeps Into Top 10 Grossing Apps in the U.S.
TikTok is on fire for a whole bunch of reasons, and the one I see as being most important, revenue, is on the list. In...
Was Tapjoy a Good Acquisition for ironSource?
Another week and another acquisition that's shrinking the mobile ad market. This week it's ironSource, another ad netw...
Apple's HomePod Mini is Bad News for Alexa and Google Home
I use app downloads as a proxy for retail sales somewhat often because some devices must be operated via app. An area ...
This Week in Apps #80 - No Way Down
TikTok dethrones Twitch as biggest revenue generator for creators!
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...
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 ...
