Google Play hits 8 billion new app installs per month, gets new developer features and bug bounty program

At Google’s annual Playtime developer event in Berlin and San Francisco, the company made a series of Google Play announcements. In terms of momentum, Vineet Buch, Google Play’s director of product management, shared that the number of developers making over $1 million per month on Google Play has grown by more than 30 percent since the beginning of the year. Buch also added that Google Play now sees more than 8 billion new installs per month globally (this excludes preinstalled apps). In short, Google wants developers to know the Play store is doing well and that it’s continuing to invest in the ecosystem.

Google Play has over 1 billion monthly active users, which the company argues makes it “the world’s largest app distribution platform.” Last year, Google Play users installed apps 82 billion times, so if the 8 billion monthly figure holds, the store will surpass its previous record in 2017.