After the app economy slowed for the first time ever in 2022, things picked up pace again over the past year. According to app intelligence provider data.ai’s annual “State of Mobile” report, out today, consumer spending on apps saw a modest 3% increase year-over-year in 2023 to reach $171 billion across the App Store, Google … Read more
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Apologies for sounding like a broken record, but the numbers are down again. This time by a lot, although that is not unusual for the end of the year. Podtrac reports that, among the top 20 publishers, downloads fell 19 percent month over month and down 24 percent year over year. The report states that … Read more
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Today, we’ve got a joint issue looking at why Apple’s latest iOS update could cause download numbers to go down and featuring a talk about brand safety with Spotify’s director of global advertising platform integrity. Apple tweaked automatic podcast downloads in … Read more
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has include a whole lot of modifications, however his rebranding of the platform to “X” often is the ultimate nail within the coffin of the once-beloved tech titan. Although Musk introduced that Twitter could be renamed “X” on Jul. 23, it wasn’t till Jul. 31 that the change to “X” went … Read more