Zoom Hit 94 Million App Store Downloads in Q2: Report
Jul. 20, 2020Popular video conferencing platformZoomhas reportedlybroken App Store’s record in terms of app downloads. According to analytics firmSensor Tower,Zoom gained almost 94 million downloadsthis past quarter.
On the Android side of things, TikTok still has an edge despite a relative decline in overall downloads. As per the firm’s estimates, Zoom’s Google Play installs increased by more than 200 percent quarter-over-quarter. TikTok, on the other hand, witnessed a 9.5 percent decline from its high in Q1.
The top five apps in terms of downloads on the App Store were Zoom, TikTok,YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. On Google Play, the apps that managed to top the charts are TikTok, Zoom, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Aarogya Setu.
The overall worldwide app downloads hit an all-time high of 37.8 billion in the quarter. Notably, this is a 31.7 percent year-over-year growth. Downloads from the App Store increased 22.6 percent to hit 9.1 billion, whereas Google Play downloads gained 34.9 percent to reach 28.7 billion downloads.
It goes without saying that the rise in Zoom’s popularity is mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic. Apart from Zoom, the firm says that downloads for Business, Education, and Health & Fitness apps have doubled in the first few weeks since the pandemic.
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