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Adam Blacker

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Lifestyle

Shopping app sessions grow 23% YoY, setting a record for the U.S. Black Friday h...

Adam Blacker

Dec 01, 2020

We've picked out the top mobile app happenings from this Black Friday holiday weekend. We’re reviewing data in...

Social Media

Fringe news apps see big gains after election

Adam Blacker

Nov 12, 2020

In his last newsletter, Adam Blacker pointed out that news apps were the biggest winners of the 2020 election–...

Entertainment

Disney+ reaches 100M downloads and $285M IAP revenue in its first year

Adam Blacker

Nov 10, 2020

After one year of Disney+ being live on the app stores, Apptopia estimates it has been downloaded 100 million ...

Social Media

India overtakes US as Snapchat's top market for downloads

Adam Blacker

Nov 05, 2020

India has overtaken the United States to be Snapchat’s #1 market for downloads (new users). It took 15 months ...

Entertainment

The Queen's Gambit penetrates pop. culture and mobile chess games benefit

Adam Blacker

Nov 02, 2020

Since The Queen’s Gambit debuted on Netflix (10/23/20), mobile chess games appearing at the top of app store s...

Commerce

Walmart's Flipkart outperforms Amazon this Diwali shopping season in India

Adam Blacker

Oct 22, 2020

Amazon and Walmart are big rivals in the US but they are also big rivals in India where Walmart owns Flipkart ...

Commerce

Top Fast Fashion Apps Worldwide for Q3 2020 by Downloads

Adam Blacker

Oct 20, 2020

Globally, the top 10 Fast Fashion apps grew Q3 downloads 40% YoY. But what is Fast Fashion? Investopedia defin...

Games

Top Hypercasual Game Publishers Worldwide for Q3 2020 by Downloads

Adam Blacker

Oct 14, 2020

Voodoo was hypercasual games publisher with the most new installs of its games in Q3 2020, having its games do...

Games

Podcast: Keeping it casual

Adam Blacker

Oct 07, 2020

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