Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to promote its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has had 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B
Microsoft Corp., eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America … X: @wallstengine , @rustybrick , and @zephyr_z9 X: @wallstengine : Mic...
Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against rival AI assistants; Sensor Tower says Copilot's mobile app has 79M downloads, far below ChatGPT's 900M+
Tyson Jominy routinely summons Microsoft Corp.'s AI assistant by tapping the Copilot key on his computer. Not because he means to.
Sensor Tower: Naval Ravikant and Brian Norgard's invitation-only audio social network app Airchat has been downloaded 30K+ times since relaunching five days ago
Released quietly late last week, Airchat didn't stay under wraps long, thanks in large part to founder Naval Ravikant's influence. …
Shuffles, Pinterest's invite-only collage-making iOS app launched in late July 2022, is going viral on TikTok; Sensor Tower estimates the app has ~338K installs
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Shuffles, Pinterest's invite-only collage-making iOS app that launched in late July, is going viral on TikTok; Sensor Tower estimates the app has ~338K installs
Collage-style video “mood boards” are going viral on TikTok — and so is the app making them possible.
BeReal, the social photo sharing app launched in early 2020 in France, is the No. 1 free app in Apple's US App Store; Sensor Tower: BeReal has 20M+ installs
and inadvertently created one of the most viral memes of the year. Sometimes the most effective marketing is unplanned.
Sensor Tower: Quibi had more than 300,000 downloads on its launch day; heavily promoted in Apple's App Store, it reached #3 but just #29 on Google Play
Quibi, the oddly-named mobile streaming service founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, was downloaded over 300,000 times on launch day …
Sensor Tower: Byte, a short-form video app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, had ~1.3M downloads during its first week, with 70% of installs happening in the US
New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine's successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues.
Instagram removes the IGTV button from its home page; Sensor Tower: IGTV's standalone app was downloaded 1.1M times in the US since its launch in June 2018
TikTok saw 80X more installs — At most, 7 million of Instagram's 1 billion-plus users have downloaded its standalone IGTV app in the 18 months since launch.
Sensor Tower says Harry Potter: Wizards Unite made ~$1.1M in its first weekend and is set for $10M+ in its first month vs. Pokemon Go's $206M in its first month
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is no Pokémon Go-sized smash hit Danny Zepeda / iMore : Harry Potter: Wizards Unite blasts off with $1.1 million opening weekend Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Pok...