Andrei Zubov

Call of Duty Mobile Hits $3B in User Spending 🔥 Activision Publishing’s top-grossing and most-downloaded mobile game has reached a major milestone, now accounting for 97% of the publisher’s total mobile revenue 💰Moreover, if we factor in the user spending from CoD Mobile Garena—a Southeast Asian version of the game—total user spending increases by an additional $340M!The game has also maintained a stable monthly download rate, consistently ranging between 3M and 4M over the past two years 💪A well-deserved applause for the studio’s ability to sustain both engagement and revenue for such an extended period! 👏

Scopely GOes and MONOPOLIZES One Genre After Another 🥇 Adding another GO to its portfolio could make Scopely the dominant force across THREE genres! And that’s not even counting the genres where the company already has a solid presence, like 4X with Star Trek Fleet Command and Team Battlers with MARVEL Strike Force. 🚀If the $3.5B deal goes through, Scopely will control 76% of the Location-Based Market, the vast majority coming from Pokémon GO. Here are a few key insights on the location-based market from AppMagic's latest post: https://lnkd.in/gaEPUwug 🔷 Niantic owns 4 out of the top 10 location-based games. This is one of the most monopolized segments in gaming, with incredibly high entry barriers.🔷 Having a major IP is almost essential in this market, yet even that doesn’t guarantee success. 🔷 Niantic has seen multiple failures with titles based […]

Color Block Jam: The New Leader of Block Puzzle Games 👑 New releases continue to flood the Top Trending chart, and this time, we’re focusing on №4—Color Block Jam by Rollic ⭐️Since Nov 2024, the game has been steadily increasing its revenue, securing its position as a genre leader by Jan 2025 🥇To put it into numbers, Color Block Jam’s revenue in Jan 2025 reached $2.39M and is nearly 4x higher than its closest competitor—and it’s still climbing! 🔥In just a few months, it also claimed the №5 spot among Rollic’s top-grossing games 🚀Will Color Block Jam maintain its dominance? We’re watching closely 👀Have closer look at the game using its AppMagic public page

Sort Puzzle: The Hottest Genre Of 2024 🔥 The genre saw explosive 460% YoY revenue growth in 2024! Already popular in Tier-1 West, it made a breakthrough by finding the right monetization strategies 💪🤩 6 out of the top 10 grossing games are 2024 newcomers.👑 Newcomer Hexa Sort by Lion Studios replaced Block Jam 3D after its 15-month reign.🍦Water Sort Puzzles are fading from the rankings, while a new theme of household goods sorting is gaining momentum.

Solitaire Grand Harvest: Leading The Solitaire Tripeaks Pack with $1B Revenue ⭐️ Solitaire Grand Harvest continues to dominate the Solitaire TriPeaks market, holding 67% of total revenue in 2024💰 After surpassing Tiki Solitaire TriPeaks in 2019, it now leads by 75% in 2024 revenue 🚀 Supertreat, the studio behind Solitaire Grand Harvest, was acquired by Playtika in 2019 💼Once again, they’ve proven their skill in scaling acquisitions, with Solitaire Grand Harvest’s annual revenue going up from $22M in 2018 to $213M in 2024 🧐👉 Explore the genre leader

Top 10 Tripeaks Solitaire Games: Can King’s New Release Ace the Market?♣️ Candy Crush Solitaire is going global today! But is the market welcoming? Let’s find out! 👀💸 Just 2 games dominated over 80% of the market revenue in 2024, while the majority of top 10 faced a revenue decline in 2024 compared to 2023. 👑 Solitaire Grand Harvest dominates with $213M revenue in 2024, leading its closest rival by over 70%.😮‍💨 Meanwhile, 7 out of the top 10 didn’t even hit $10M per year.While the two leaders have been controlling the market for a long time, Monopoly GO! showed us that big shifts can happen fast, right? 🚀

Top 10 Gaming Publishers by Worldwide IAP Revenue in 2024  💫 The much-anticipated top is finally here, led by Tencent with $6.3B in revenue for 2024, driven by Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile, and the release of Dungeons & Dragons 🔥Scopely climbed from 6th to 2nd place, reaching $2B in revenue, thanks to the outstanding success of Monopoly Go! 💥Supercell and Century Games are the two newcomers to the top, driven by the phenomenal growth of Brawl Stars and the great success of the innovative 4X strategy Whiteout Survival, respectively 💣

Homa Reaches 2B Cumulative Downloads! 💥 This incredible milestone reinforces Homa’s position as one of the top 10 hypercasual publishers. 🏅Timeless hits like Sky Roller, Merge Master and Attack Hole continue to lead the way, contributing 21% of total downloads for the lifetime 🏆But it’s not just about the classics—Homa is pushing forward with fresh titles as well! 🎮Two of our favorites, Agent Hunt and Frontline Heroes, show how the publisher can blend hypercasual mechanics with a more realistic art style 🎨While we’re celebrating this download milestone, Homa is also achieving strong revenue growth by embracing the hybrid casual trend and placing greater emphasis on IAPs 📈

Zynga Reaches 2B Installs and Is Soon to hit $8B in IAP Revenue 🎊 Believe it or not, these numbers don’t even include Rollic or Peak Games' metrics! 🤯Zynga’s flagships like CSR 2, Zynga Poker, and Merge Dragons show just how timeless great mobile games can be ⏰The top 10 games contribute 44% of total installs, emphasizing the diversity of Zynga’s portfolio 💫