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STORE INTELLIGENCE · RANDY NELSON · APRIL 2016

Sensor Tower's Q1 2016 Data Digest: App Downloads Grew 8.2% Year-Over-Year

Sensor Tower's free Q1 2016 mobile app economy report contains the quarter's worldwide top apps, publishers, and categories for the App Store and Google Play.

Cover of Sensor Tower's Q1 2016 Data Digest

Gain valuable insights into the app economy on the App Store and Google Play with Sensor Tower's free quarterly Data Digest for Q1 2016, now available. Created by our data science team using our industry-leading Store Intelligence platform, this report covers Q1's macro trends for both stores along with worldwide and U.S. top apps, publishers, and categories.

Key highlights from our Q1 2016 report include:

  • 17.2 billion total app downloads on the App Store and Google Play combined.

  • 8.2 percent year-over-year growth in worldwide App Store and Google Play downloads.

  • Chinese publishers continued to grow their share of the world's top iOS apps.

  • Streaming apps decreased in number among the world's most downloaded apps compared to Q4 2015.

  • Macro store trends, top apps and publishers, global market insights, and more.

Click below to download the report in PDF format:

Download Sensor Tower's Q4 Data Digest

Our Store Intelligence platform—the same product used by leading mobile publishers to make informed decisions and drive maximum growth—powered this report’s creation.

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Randy Nelson

Written by: Randy Nelson, Head of Mobile Insights

Date: April 2016