The games market is a busy one. A couple of days ago, we talked about the most grossing games in May 2020 across iOS and Android. Today we will talk about the top mobile publishers for the same month based on SensorTower’s report. This report covers every publisher on mobile including mobile games publishers. For May 2020, Google got the highest rank on App Store and Google Play with about 379.8 million installs. This is a 2x year-over-year rise from the same time last year. All of the data is from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform.
Voodoo was the top mobile games publisher for May 2020
Facebook and Bytedance follow Google in overall downloads charts. Afterward, most of the list is from mobile game publishers. Voodoo, the team behind hit titles like Helix Jump and Crowd City comes at number four. ASMR Slicing and Dentist Bling publisher Crazy Labs closes the top five. Other mobile games publisher in the overall downloads list are Tencent, Outfit7, and Playrix, which passed 1 billion downloads milestone lately. On the App Store downloads list, the Chinese giant Tencent was the second highest ranking mobile publisher for the previous month.
That’s all for the top mobile games publishers. Tencent led the top mobile game by worldwide revenue for the May 2020 list with PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings. Furthermore, Roblox, Mixi’s Monster Strike, and Moon Active’s Coin Master close the most grossing mobile games list for May 2020.
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Lately, we talked about the impact of COVID-19 on hyper casual games. In a brief way, the ongoing pandemic contributed to the success of the “tap and play” genre. We also talked about the impact of COVID-19 on the Chinese mobile games market. You can read all of our coverage about the mobile games industry by clicking here.