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Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

World Spends $ 407 Mln on Mobile Apps on Christmas Eve


Sat 02 Jan 2021 | 11:34 AM
Ahmed Yasser

World residents spent $ 407.6 million on Christmas Day on apps purchased from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, which represents a 34.5% gain from 2019,According to the Indian site phonearena on Friday.

The Apple App Store received the largest part of the money spent on apps worldwide on Christmas Day. The Sensor Tower app shows that $ 278.6 million, or 68.4% of the total, was spent in the App Store compared to $ 129 million in revenue. Collected by Google Play Store, according to the report.

It was entertainment apps that generated the most revenue, they brought in $19.3 million on the App Store. Overall, Tencent’s Honor of Kings was the game that prompted the most users spending – $10.7 million. Away from games, it was TikTok that generated the global revenue, bringing in a total of $4.7 million globally over the Christmas period.

On other hand, the online game platform Roblox led the total game spending in the US, with the consumer spending growing 40.4 % year-over-year to $ 6.6 million this Christmas from $ 4.7 million last year. Disney + surfaced as the top non-gaming app for consumer spending in the US, with $ 2.6 million generated that shows 44.4 percent increase from $ 1.8 million in 2019.