Russian Playrix earned more from mobile in 2016 than Netflix

The analytical company App Annie presented the annual chart of the highest-grossing companies publishing mobile apps on Google Play and the App Store. For the first time since 2014, a Russian publisher, Playrix, appeared in it.

Domestic companies have not been included in the App Annie chart since 2014, when Russian Social Quantum took 48th place in the rating.

The author of Township and Gardenscapes took the 32nd position in the ranking, ahead of the American media corporation Netflix (35th place) and the largest Chinese search engine Baidu (37th place).

The top 52 was headed by the main provider of the PRC, Tencent, which in a year broke into the leaders from the 6th line and displaced the Finnish Supercell to the second place, and the Chinese developer NetEase closed the top three, rising there from the 9th position.

2/3 of the rating was made up of companies from the USA and Japan — 16 representatives each, 11 more mobile publishers gave China, the remaining part is represented by Australia, Finland, Sweden, Russia and France.

“Revenue ratings are based on revenue from paid downloads and in-app purchases in the iOS App Store and Google Play. They do not include revenue from in—app advertising and subscriptions distributed not through app stores,” the App Annie website says.

Source: App Annie