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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. A
new forecast this week expects consumer spend to grow to $270 billion by 2025.
Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.
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Coin Master recently passed $2 billion spent by players in its lifetime following a big year in 2020, according to Sensor Tower.
The tracking firm reports that Coin Master garnered over $1.2 billion in 2020, a 122.4% rise from the previous year, spurred on in part by lockdowns amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coin Master led the growth of the Casino category as a whole on mobile, which was the second-fastest growing genre for player spending in the U.S. last year according to Sensor Tower.
The casino-style game was also the no. 4 revenue-generating mobile game worldwide in 2020 across both the App Store and Google Play according to Sensor Tower s data, falling just behind PUBG Mobile, Honor of Kings, and Pokémon Go.