Top Grossing Photo & Video Apps Worldwide for January 2020

The top grossing Photo & Video category app worldwide for January 2020 was YouTube with $65.5 million in user spending, which represented 85 percent growth from January 2019. YouTube’s top countries for user spending were the United States with 58 percent of all revenue earned, followed by 8 percent from Japan and 4 percent from Great Britain. The full ranking of the top grossing Photo & Video category apps for January 2020 is above. App revenue estimates are from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform.

TikTok was the second highest earning Photo & Video category app worldwide for January 2020 with $28.6 million in gross revenue, more than 4x what it earned in January 2019. TikTok’s top two countries for user spending were China with an 85 percent share of the revenue, followed by 10 percent from the U.S. The next top grossing app in the category was Twitch, followed by Kuaishou and PicsArt.

Want to see how these rankings compared to the previous month? Check out the Top Grossing Photo & Video Apps Worldwide for December 2019.

Store Intelligence users can see app revenue and app download estimates for the above apps in addition to historical performance metrics on the Sensor Tower platform. Our revenue estimates are from the App Store and Google Play worldwide between January 1, 2019 and January 31, 2020 and represent gross user spending. These rankings do not include app revenue from third-party Android stores.