2025 State of Mobile is Live!
"Sensor Tower’s Consumer Intelligence offers a critical lever for us to make important investment decisions on behalf of our clients, and ensure we’re staying on top of key market-moving trends in mobile."
Social networks, hit games, and major media companies are all engaging deeply on mobile, but understanding the global impact of their success can be difficult. Leverage usage and engagement data, powered by Sensor Tower’s robust and insightful proprietary panel, alongside install and revenue estimates to gain an enhanced understanding of a mobile app’s performance across a quarter or year.
Segmenting audiences can be a useful way to understand engagement in context -- are apps really resonating with key demographics that position them for market dominance. Create unique cohorts based on app or category engagement, and compare major global apps’ performance within that demographic. Plus, dive deep into demographics to better understand the market of users an app is chasing.
With the world’s biggest apps already maxing out the number of potential users on mobile, a key engagement vector is an app’s “stickiness.” Break down the patterns of a major app’s most core users to understand the number of sessions and peak usage times and determine how often and how long users are actively engaging. Plus, drill down into the total time spent and map how the most engaged Daily Active Users are spending their time. With these key metrics, your team can stitch together exactly how sticky a successful app really is.
Gain clear benchmarks on the performance of mobile companies
Compare real-life usage data and contextualize engagement
Drill down into granular mobile engagement at the hourly level
Tick Tock? If the clock really does strike midnight for TikTok in the US on January 19, we expect there to be seismic shifts in consumer engagement, in-app revenue and digital advertising spend. Based on Sensor Tower data, the most likely beneficiaries will be Meta and Alphabet. Instagram and YouTube could see US ad spend share jump 3ppts and 2ppts YoY, respectively, in 4Q25, while US user hours/day could soar more than 40% and 12% YoY, respectively, in the same period.