Daily bread 04/19/2017

• Top Mobile Games of Q1 2017: Revenue Grew 53% YoY as Asian Titles Expanded Their Dominance

  • Mobile games continued to be the dominant category in the worldwide app ecosystem in terms of monetization, accounting for close to 80 percent of the gross revenue generated by Apple’s App Store in Q1, and more than 91 percent through Google Play.
  • mobile games revenue generated on the App Store grew 35 percent
  • Google Play games revenue grew approximately 83 percent
  • Subway Surfers topped the overall downloads chart
  • Tencent’s King of Glory became the world’s most downloaded mobile game on the App Store
  • revenue side, Monster Strike retained its first place position across the overall
  • runner-up on the overall revenue chart was Type-Moon’s Fate/Grand Order, another popular mobile game hailing from Japan
  • Fate/Grand Order increased its position last quarter, securing second place on Google Play and a spot in the top five on the App Store.
  • Tencent’s King of Glory (shown below), became a revenue contender

• Facebook owns four out of the five most downloaded apps worldwide

  • four out of the five spots for the most downloaded apps across the globe during the last quarter.
  • WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Snapchat
  • video and audio streaming apps dominated the revenue charts.
  • Netflix became the highest grossing app for the first quarter of 2017

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