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The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in global consumer spend in 2019. Not including third-party Chinese app stores, iOS and Android users downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020. Consumer spend also hit a record $112 billion across iOS and Android alone. In 2019, people spent three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Due to COVID-19, time spent in apps jumped 25% year-over-year on Android.
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PUBG Mobile Generated The Highest Revenue in Mobile Games Globally This Year Despite a Ban In India
PUBG Mobile generated a total of $2.6 billion in revenues this year globally, a 64.3 percent spike from last year s numbers.
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PUBG Mobile was banned in India in September this year under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, stripping the game off of one of its largest markets. Despite the ban in India, PUBG Mobile raked in the highest revenue globally across the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in 2020 globally, according to a recent report from Sensor Tower. PUBG Mobile was one of the five mobile games that generated more than $1 billion (roughly Rs 7,351 crores) in revenues this year.
PUBG Mobile highest earning mobile game of 2020, says Sensor Tower
PUBG Mobile has managed to outshine all other games this year, raking in a revenue of over $2 billion this year.
Shubham Verma | December 16, 2020 | Updated 13:58 IST
Source: Reuters
It generated a revenue close to $2.6 billion worldwide.
PUBG Mobile also saw a tough time when it was banned in India.
PUBG Mobile has emerged as the highest-grossing mobile game of 2020. The smash-hit battle royale has managed to outshine all other mobile games this year despite having a quite difficult time in India, one of the top markets. This latest data comes courtesy Sensor Tower, which is a credible app analytics firm. The Tencent-owned game raked in a revenue of close to $2.6 billion from both Google Play Store and Apple s App Store. The figure represents an increase of 64 per cent from last year. At the second spot is another Tencent-owned game called Honor of Kings.
A year dominated by a global pandemic has seen five mobile games break $1 billion in revenues so far, according to Sensor Tower.
In a post on its blog, the mobile data firm said Tencent scored the two biggest hits of the year with PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings, which have brought in $2.6 billion and $2.5 billion so far this year, respectively.
(Those numbers do not include revenue from third-party Android stores in China or other regions, but the PUBG figure does include revenues from its Chinese localization Game for Peace.)
The PUBG Mobile number represents a 64.3% jump year-over-year, while Honor of Kings is up 42.8%.
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