The mobile game Tanks Blitz has shown good results in RuStore. According to a press release from the RuStore team, users of the Russian app store spent 100 million rubles in the game Lesta Games in less than three months: it was released on the site on November 16, 2023.

The RuStore team hopes to see a significant increase in the monthly active audience (MAU) of the store. She expects that by the end of 2023, RuStore will be regularly used by 25 million people.

RuStore refuses to publish only 7% of applications, the stora team claims. These are usually projects with controversial or low-quality content.

VK continues to develop the RuStore mobile marketplace. She announced that developers can now place applications adapted for Android-based Smart TV in the store.

VK has allowed foreign developers to earn money on applications published in RuStore. Monetization tools have become available to them.

VK has officially allowed self-employed developers to monetize applications in RuStore. The company talked about plans to do this two weeks ago.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin claims that the appearance of RuStore has protected mobile applications from sanctions against Russia. He shared this opinion at a meeting with the finalists of the youth entrepreneurship development program “I’m in Business”.

VK Group announced that self-employed developers will be able to earn money on applications in RuStore. This feature will appear in the near future.

VK has published a report on the most popular RuStore games among Russians. Judging by it, the most active in the country are downloading action games, puzzles and simulators.

Ilya Ulyanov, director of work with RuStore partners, in a comment to TASS reported that more than 4 thousand publishers have placed applications in the store’s catalog. There are foreign companies among them.

VK Group has revised the policy regarding the commission in RuStore. She announced that from April 1, she will reduce the commission from 15% to 0.9%-3.35%, depending on the payment method chosen by the user. The new conditions will be in effect until the end of the year.

VK Group reported for the fourth quarter and the whole of 2022. In the financial report, she, among other things, told about the indicators of playgrounds.

VK has added a new type of monetization to RuStore. Paid applications have become available in the marketplace.

The government of the Russian Federation announced that starting from 2023, the RuStore app store will be mandatory pre-installed on devices sold in Russia. It got into the list of required programs instead of the APP List.

VK has released an update for its mobile store. Now application developers for RuStore can track user payments and, if necessary, make refands.

Previously, only companies and sole proprietors could do this.

Now developers can create push notifications, use deep links, and place the “Available in RuStore” button on third-party platforms.

Developers of applications for RuStore can now monetize their projects, VK announced. The mobile store commission will be 15%.

According to the report of the Information Culture organization, 93.8% of applications with trackers use American trackers like Google AdMob. However, the trackers of Yandex, VK and other Russian companies are also popular — they are used in 58% of cases.