In the year 2021, the digital content platform Google Play generated gross revenues of approximately 48 billion U.S. dollars through mobile apps. This is a global consumer spending increase of about 23 percent, compared to the previous year. With gross revenue reaching over 85.1 billion U.S. dollars, Apple’s App Store remained in the lead.
Leading apps on Google Play Store
Some of the leading Google apps that can be found on the Play Store included Google Play Games and YouTube Music, however, with over 20 million downloads worldwide, Google Meet took the top spot in 2020. The most popular kind of app on the platform was by far the gaming app: in the first quarter of 2020 alone, gaming apps accounted for approximately 10 billion downloads. Tool and entertainment applications ranked second and third in terms of download count, respectively.
Leading mobile gaming apps
Having generated over 100 million U.S. dollars in revenue worldwide, Coin Master was the leading mobile gaming app on the Google Play Store. Other successful and familiar gaming apps that could be found on many smartphones around the world included Pokémon GO, Candy Crush Saga, and PUBG MOBILE – NEW ERA.
Worldwide gross app revenue of Google Play from 2016 to 2021
(in billion U.S. dollars)
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Sensor Tower. (December 7, 2021). Worldwide gross app revenue of Google Play from 2016 to 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/444476/google-play-annual-revenue/
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Sensor Tower. (2021). Worldwide gross app revenue of Google Play from 2016 to 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/444476/google-play-annual-revenue/
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