A Look Back at 2014 year

There were many highs and lows, innovations and new achievements almost in every sphere of our lives, and now it is the time to look back summarize  the trends that brought us the 2014 Year. The growth of device sales in 2014 caused the increase in mobile content consumption. The number of apps in the Google Play Store grew by more than 50% last year, distributing apps from 388 000 different developers and outpacing Apple’s App Store for the first time with a difference about 17 %, according to  Analytics company App Annie. “What’s interesting is that although Apple continues to grow strongly, it’s really Google Play that’s growing,” the company wrote.

But even through the fact that the number of Android-based apps increased a lot, iOS developers still made 60% more money. The top five fastest growing categories of iOS apps in 2014, according to appFigure’s reports,  were Business, Food & Drink, Lifestyle, Social Networking and Catalogs. On Google Play, the top categories were Games, Photography, Music, Business and Entertainment.

Gaming industry statistics for 2014 gave us interesting insights to gamer habits and demographics around the globe. 2014 saw a record $24 billion in game-company exits, and now the game industry  is becoming a serious competitor to the entire tv/film industry. Playing games is becoming more and more popular like television viewing.

For example, The Candy Crush Soda  Match 3 game was breakthrough of the Year and had reached 24 million active users playing every month just 1.5 month since it launched on Facebook. Or another example of the Monument Valley mobile game , that made  $ 5.8 million revenue and had a fantastic return on investment!

Games are becoming more and more popular on mobile devices and this sector is showing strong double-digit growth. Almost each of the hundreds of millions smartphone holder is a gamer now.  According to Digi-Capital’s global games revenue forecast the game industry will beat more than $100 billion revenue by 2017, and as we can see from the chart the biggest revenue will bring the mobile sector.

Mobile gaming era has come. ”Life is more fun if you play games”. Roald Dahl