Apptopia

Netflix is considering ways to make money from video games, including via IAPs and ads; Apptopia: as of October 2023, <1% of subscribers played its games daily

Ideas include charging extra for some games and incorporating ads, in-game purchases  —  Netflix has said it plans to be in gaming for years to come.

French social app BeReal, which encourages users to post one selfie per day, has exploded in popularity with Gen Z users; Apptopia says MAUs are up 315% in 2022

French social app BeReal, which encourages users to post one selfie per day, has exploded in popularity with Gen Z users; Apptopia says MAUs are up 315% in 2022

Downloads of BeReal, Gen Z's hot new social media app, have skyrocketed in recent months, giving the world's mobile-first generation …

Over Christmas holiday, Apptopia says HBO Max had ~554K app signups; Sensor Tower says Disney+ had ~2.3M global app installations, up 28% from prior weekend

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg :

SimilarWeb and Apptopia: amid quarantines, Americans increasingly use online platforms on computers, not smartphones; Nextdoor.com traffic is up 73% from Jan.

Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, with movie theaters closed and no restaurants to dine in, Americans have been spending more of their lives online.

Apptopia and Braze study: with 59M global installs, Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ in Q1, but more time was spent on YouTube Kids

Netflix may still dominate global streaming, but Disney+ has made a huge splash in the United States, where it launched in November.

Apptopia data suggests only 825 iOS apps, ~30% of which are games, have integrated Apple's ARKit framework since September launch, most within first two months

Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :

Apptopia data shows Apple's “App of the Day” App Store section, introduced in iOS 11, has boosted downloads by 1,747% on average and 792% for games

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