Weekly Reports Recap: June 28 - July 2
Three top reports from Sensor Tower, App Annie & Newzoo.
This week we have found only 3 reports worth mentioning, but they’re worth it. Today:
Sensor Tower: Users mobile spendings reached $64.9 billion in H1 2021
App Annie: Gaming apps were earning $1.7 billion per week on average in Q2 2021
Newzoo: 3 Billion gamers will be on the planet by the end of 2021
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Sensor Tower: Users mobile spendings reached $64.9 billion in H1 2021
It’s 24.8% higher than in H1 2020.
Apple’s revenue reached $41.5 billion (+22.1% YoY). Google Play had $23.4 billion (+30% YoY).
The mobile gaming market in H1 2021 received $44.7 billion (+17.9% YoY). It’s 68.8% of overall mobile market revenue.
Users has spent $26 billion (+13.5% YoY) in App Store and $18.7 billion (+24.7% YoY) in Google Play.
The gaming market growth slowed a little bit compared to H1 2020.
The Honor of Kings was the top game by revenue in H1 2021. Developers earned more than $1.5 billion.
PUBG Mobile was the second successful product by revenue with similar revenue of about $1.5 billion.
The number of downloads in H1 2021 decreased compared to H1 2020 by 1.4%. It’s 28.1 billion downloads.
App Store downloads fell down by 22.8% YoY - to 4.4 billion. On contrary, Google Play showed 3.9% growth to 23.7 billion.
Not counting Garena Free Fire, the most downloaded App Store & Google Play games were casual or hypercasual titles.
App Annie: Gaming apps were earning $1.7 billion per week on average in Q2 2021
Overall mobile market revenue in Q2 2021 was $34 billion - across all categories. It’s 25% higher than a year before.
Games revenue increased by 35% compared to Q2 2019. Developers have been earning about $1.7 billion every week in Q2 2021.
A number of downloads exceeded 1 billion per quarter 5th quarter straight. Growth to 2019 - by 15%.
ROBLOX was the top game in Q2 2021 by consumer spend; Bridge Race had the most downloads. The most spectacular new game is Uma Musume Pretty Derby. Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds showing great results too.
Newzoo: 3 Billion gamers will be on the planet by the end of 2021
The gaming market will decrease by 1.1% compared to 2020 - to $175.88 billion. The highest down rate will show North American region with 7.2%.
The Mobile Gaming market in 2021 will reach $90.6 billion (+4.7% YoY). The Console market will be $49.2 billion (-8.9% YoY), while the PC Market evaluated at $35.9 billion (-1.7% YoY).
The number of gamers in 2021 will reach 3 billion users - it’s 5.3% more than in 2021. The majority is from the Asian-Pacific region - 1.615 billion.
Newzoo points, that the Gaming Market will be $218.7 billion in evaluation by the end of 2024 with a CAGR of +8.7%.
In 2021 2.8 billion out of 3 billion gamers will play on mobile devices. As for the PC, there will be 1.4 billion such users and 0.9 billion will play on consoles.
By the end of 2024, the number of gamers will reach 3.32 billion, showing a CAGR of 5.6%.