TikTok or PUBG Mobile- Which is on the top?
Smartphone users spent a collective $33.6 billion on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store during the July-September quarter on apps, in-app purchases and subscriptions. This is a 15.1% increase over the same period last year when $29.2 billion was spent. The increase is slowing down, however, last year there was a 32% jump in spending for that same quarter. The Apple store is still raking in the most money, an impressive $21.5 billion (+13.2% compared to last year). However, Google’s platform is catching up as it took in $12.1 billion (+18.6%).
Data from SensorTower reveals that TikTok was the highest-earning app globally across both app stores in Q3. It recently hit 3 billion total installs. It also becomes the first non-Facebook app to do so. TikTok was the top app in Apple’s store, but not in Google’s – there the search giant’s own Google One app holds the #1 spot. Piccoma shot up to the #2 spot overall with a 130% growth. YouTube and Disney+ are in the Top 5 as well. Below are the overall rankings as well as the per-app store.
Mobile gaming is heating up too, with users spending 7.7% more cash than Q3 last year – a whopping $22.4 billion. Most of that was spent in the Google Play Store ($13.1 billion) with iOS trailing ($9.3 billion). Check Also: Best Mobiles for PUBG – Budget Phones for PUBG Under 20,000 & 30,000
As in previous quarters, the top mobile game is Tencent’s PUBG Mobile, which has amassed lifetime earnings of over $5 billion. Another Tencent game, Honor of Kings, is in the #2 spot, followed by Genshin Impact. Genshin may be only a year old, but it already has $2 billion of consumer spending to its name. Pokemon Go is still popular and was 4th, Roblox rounds off the Top 5.
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