App Annie: in the third quarter, Russia spent $244 million on mobile games

• In the third quarter of 2020, Russians spent a total of $348 million in mobile. Most of it ($244 million) came from games;in total, Russian users began spending 25% more in mobile apps and games than in the same period last year;
• in total, in the third quarter, users from Russia spent 7 billion hours in applications (an increase of 30% in annual terms);
• the number of downloads in the Russian App Store and Google Play increased by 10%.
• In total, users made 1.4 billion downloads in the third quarter;in the top of the most downloaded games in Russia were Cube Surfer, My Talking Tom Friends, Tie Dye, Brawl Stars and Brain Wash.
• At the same time, users spent the most money in Brawl Stars, Hero Wars, Grandscapes, Empires & Puzzles and PUBG Mobile;as for applications, for the first time in Russia, the Likee video creation and editing program got into the top (it took third place).
• TikTok remains the leader in downloads, and Telegram takes the second place;at the same time, users spend the most in VKontakte, BOOM and ivi.ru .
• If we talk about the situation in the world, in the third quarter there were absolutely 25 billion new downloads on Google Play and 9 billion on the App Store.

During this period, iOS users spent a total of $18 billion on games and apps. The same amount was generated by the owners of Android devices.

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