App downloads on GetJar, the world’s second largest mobile app store, are running at the rate of 3m per day, the company has revealed. GetJar offers mobile apps for all platforms, including Android, Blackberry, Java, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile.
GetJar has also conducted a review of more than 70,000 apps within its store to identify user interests and trends among its users. As of July 2010, YouTube, Facebook and Yahoo! Mobile remained among the most popular apps, with games Warships Sea on Fire and Racing Mania topping the games category. Other leading categories include Lifestyle, Entertainment, Music, Maps, Search, Financial, Sports and Productivity.
“We’re thrilled to have reached 3m downloads per day, which allows us to tap into consumers’ perceptions and attitudes, and what is trending across the US and the rest of the world,” says GetJar CEO and founder, llja Laurs. “We’ve seen our daily downloads grow more than 300 per cent year-on-year, with significant growth coming from N. America, Western Europe, Asia and S. Africa. As consumers move from browsing and searching to downloading and tapping, we are seeing that apps are becoming a mainstream way for people to consume content, not only in the developed markets on smartphones but all over the world on all different types of handsets.”
With downloads coming from more than 200 countries and 2000 different handsets, GetJar says it is also uniquely placed to see shifts in demographic trends in consumption by region, platform and handset and content type.
“Clear patterns are starting to emerge” says GetJar CMO Patrick Mork. “We see Indian consumers downloading more productivity applications that enhance the usage of their phone compared to Americans for example, and English consumers downloading more entertainment apps than Indians. Religious apps are popular in the Middle East. Downloads by platform are also shifting quickly. Android wasn’t even a part of our business last year. Today, it’s the second most popular platform developers are submitting on when uploading content to GetJar, and we have at least three devices in our top 20 list of devices in the US that are Android powered.”
Top 10 apps overall by downloads:
- Facebook Mobile
- eBuddy Messenger
- Nimbuzz
- Migg33
- Opera Mini browser
- Yahoo! Mobile
- Yahoo! Mail
- Bitstream Bolt Browser
- YouTube
Top 10 social & messaging downloads:
- Facebook Mobile
- eBuddy Messenger
- Nimbuzz
- Mig33
- Yahoo! Mail
- shut down mobile by sms
- Snaptu
- qeep
- RockeTalk
- eBuddy Lite Messenger
Top 10 handsets by visits (US):
- Sanyo Incognito
- Apple iPhone
- Samsung Seek
- LG Rumor Touch
- Samsung Impression
- Sanyo 2700
- Samsung Instinct
- Samsung Solstice
- LG Rumor II
- HTC Evo