Top App Store publishers earned 64 percent more than Google Play's in Q1 2022: report

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Apps from the top 100 publishers in the App Store and Google Play Store brought in a combined average of $130.4 million in the first quarter of 2019, according to a study from app analytics firm Sensor Tower.

However, Sensor Belfry notes that revenue was once again skewed heavily towards Apple'due south market place, with average gross income reaching $83.8 million on the App Store, compared to $51 one thousand thousand on Google Play.

That said, Sensor Belfry institute that compound annual growth rate in each shop was practically the aforementioned, coming in at 31.3 and 31.2 pct for the App Shop and Play Store, respectively.

Moreover, Sensor Tower reports that across both stores, the average consumer spend per top 100 publishers was up 12.1 percent around the globe from the previous quarter. Looking back farther, Sensor Tower pointed to a 285 per centum boilerplate growth in acquirement on both marketplaces in Q1 2019 since Q1 2014.

More than specifically, Sensor Tower notes that consumers spent an average of $23.three 1000000 in apps from the App Store's elevation not-gaming publishers concluding quarter, compared to $seven million on Google Play. In other words, this marks a 232 percent difference, with the top non-gaming publishers on the App Shop earning 3.3 times as much equally their Google Play counterparts on boilerplate. Across both stores, the combined tiptop 100 earning not-gaming publishers generated an average of $29 million in acquirement during Q1 2019.

In terms of game revenue, Sensor Tower says an average of $114.5 1000000 was spent betwixt the combined peak games publishers on both the App Store and Play Shop in Q1 2019. This is well-nigh four times more than the $29 1000000 boilerplate revenue of the top not-gaming publishers, demonstrating only how lucrative mobile games can be.

Specifically, Sensor Tower found that the topmost App Store games publishers by acquirement last quarter grossed an average of $lxx.three million, which is virtually 50 per centum percent more than than the $48 one thousand thousand earned on Google Play.

The total Sensor Tower study can exist found here.