The coronavirus pandemic is changing our internet habits; how we work, study, digest news, and entertain ourselves. We’ve put together a quick breakdown of the biggest changes by vertical:
App store spend is up: Q1 2020 was the largest-ever quarter in terms of consumer spend on apps, according to data from App Annie. Consumers worldwide spent over $23 billion through app stores.
Social app usage is exploding: Daily downloads of Houseparty have risen 25x. The video chat app was downloaded over 650,000 times on March 25.
Collaboration apps are now household names: Worldwide daily downloads of Zoom’s mobile app have increased by 14x since February 15. Video conferencing apps saw a record 62 million downloads during a single week in March.
People are hungry for news: Web traffic to nytimes.com and washingtonpost.com has grown more than 50 percent over the last month, according to SimilarWeb.
Esports are thriving: Watch hours on Twitch have increased by 23%. Watch hours on YouTube Gaming Live increased by 10.7% and on Facebook Gaming by 3.8%. Twitch surpassed 3 billion hours watched on the platform in Q1 2020.
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