Because of the coronavirus quarantine, people are paying more and more attention to games. According to Nielsen, a 45% increase in the indicator “time spent in games” was recorded in the United States. In addition, users began to spend more money on games.

About 69.2% of mobile devices in the United States run on Android OS – versus 29.6% on iOS. This is claimed by the New York advertising platform Fluent, based on its own data.

We have already written more than once that the revenue of the shareware game is provided by a small percentage of “whales”. Mobile marketing platform Swrve clarified the figures in its research. Only 0.23% of the players are responsible for 64% of the revenue.

The mobile software development company Apus Group conducted a global study of the Google Play store. There are an average of 37 apps per user, and if you live in Japan, at least 5 of them are games.

Yandex has prepared a study on the development of the Internet in the regions of Russia. The main idea is that the number of those who go online from a smartphone or tablet has grown significantly.

Almost half of users are willing to pay monthly for a subscription to their favorite app, according to a survey conducted by mobile software development company Branchfire.

The lack of great competition in the Amazon store has given major brands the opportunity to strengthen their power there. Which Disney took advantage of.

The authors of the latest research2guidance report drew attention to the potential of using cross-platform tools and provided relevant statistics, estimating the market at $2.4 billion.

Smashing Ideas, a division of Random House, has published a report according to which about half of American smartphone owners spend about 200 hours a year on mobile games.

App Annie has published ratings on downloads and publisher revenue for October of this year.

The Google Play online store has a better search algorithm than the iOS software store. However, Apple allows you to find new programs faster and works better with content management.

The US Digital Games Market Update and Rankings report for October 2013 has been published. Based on these studies, over the past month, digital sales have finally “exchanged” another billion US dollars. 

According to IDC, global shipments of tablet devices increased to 47.6 million in the third quarter of 2013. This indicates a 7% increase compared to the figures of the previous quarter and 36% compared to the figures for the same quarter last year.  And again, the bulk of deliveries are accounted for by Android tablets.

App Annie employees have published the results of the latest App Annie Market Index report for the third quarter of 2013. The document compares in detail the revenues and the number of downloaded mobile programs in various countries, stores and categories.