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App Annie: Game and app downloads grow 10% in 2018 to 113 billion

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Mobile data and analytics firm App Annie said that global app and game downloads, as well as consumer spending in those apps, reached new heights in 2018.

Based on preliminary data through December 15, App Annie predicted that global downloads across iOS and Google Play will surpass 113 billion downloads in 2018, up 10 percent from 2017.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.