Tik Tok is the most popular in the world

$135 billion in app sales through online stores in 2021

App downloads increased 10 billion times last year compared to 2020. Archive

A recent report by the “App Any” company, which specializes in monitoring the application market, showed that the number of downloads of applications through electronic stores reached a new record level, during the past year, with the arrival of the total amount that users paid for downloading applications, whether through the “App Store” or Google Play, to $135 billion.

The report pointed out that this number is expected to increase when the final data for 2021 is released, by adding app sales to other stores in China.

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The TechCrunch website, which specializes in technology issues, quoted the report as saying that the number of downloads of applications in the world increased by 10 billion times, during the past year, compared to 2020, bringing the total to 140 billion times.

TechCrunch indicated that the smart mobile application industry has become a huge industry, as the total market value of companies that develop applications targeting mobile devices first in 2019 reached more than 544 billion dollars, 6.5 times more than the market value of software companies that do not Develops applications for mobile devices.

Meanwhile, over the past year, investors poured $73 billion into mobile app companies, up 27% year-on-year.

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In addition, Sensor Tower, a company specialized in monitoring the application market, expected that the number of application companies that achieved annual profits of one million dollars for the first time, during the current year, will be about double the number of similar companies that achieved the first million dollars in net profits in 2016. .

The company explained that the number of companies that achieved the first million dollars in profits during the current year reached 900,000 companies, compared to 475,000 companies in 2016.

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On the other hand, a new report by Aptopia, which specializes in monitoring the application market as well, showed that the Chinese social networking application “Tik Tok” was the most popular application in the world during 2021.

The report stated that “Tik Tok” ranked first in the list of applications most downloaded on users’ devices during the past year, explaining that “Aptopia” is working to collect and analyze user activity data on electronic application stores, to find out the fastest growing areas and applications that achieve the largest number of times. download.

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By analyzing the data of the “App Store” and “Google Play” stores, the company identified the most popular applications in the United States and the world, where the “Tik Tok” application, owned by the Chinese “ByteDance” company, came in first place, both at the level of the United States. , or globally.

According to Aptopia’s global list, the “Tik Tok” application ranked first, with 656 million downloads during the past year, while the “Instagram” application came in second place with 545 million downloads, then “Facebook” 416 million times. While WhatsApp came third with 395 million downloads, and finally Snapchat with 327 million downloads.

At the level of the United States only, the "Tik Tok" application also came in first place, and it was downloaded 94 million times, followed by "Instagram" 64 million times.

"Tik Tok" domain

Information security company Cloudflare reported, in a report published last week, that the "Tik Tok" domain name had become the most popular in the world by late last year, moving the "Google.com" domain name off the top.

And the domain name "Google.com" ended the year before last, as the most popular in the world, while the domain name "Tik Tok.com" was in seventh place, but things changed during the past year, as the domain name "Tik Tok.com" jumped com” to the first place, and moved the name “Google.com” to the second place.

The website "Cnet.com", which specializes in technology issues, stated that the increase in the popularity of the "Tik Tok" application for social networking, during the "Corona" pandemic, contributed to the great leap achieved by the "Tik Tok.com" domain name, noting that the number of users of the "Tik Tok" domain has increased. Tik Tok reached 1 billion monthly active users last September.

• The number of companies that achieved the first million dollars in profits, during 2021, reached 900,000 companies.

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