December 2024 Top Grossing Mobile and CTV Apps in the U.S. and Canada: ‘Pandora’ Ranks No. 1 on Google Play Store ($6M) in the U.S.; ‘Hulu’ Ranks No. 1 With $148M Across Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TV, & Apple TV

According to Pixalate's research, the app ‘SoundCloud’ in Canada generated a combined estimated $899k in open programmatic ad revenue on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store; ‘Fubo: Watch Live TV & Sports’ led on Apple TV with an estimated $76k in estimated open programmatic revenue

/EIN News/ -- London, Jan. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pixalate, the global market-leading ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform, today released the December North America 2024 Top Grossing Apps Reports for the United States and Canada. The reports cover mobile apps from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and CTV apps from Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Samsung Smart TV stores.

The reports highlight the estimated top-grossing apps in open programmatic advertising revenue for mobile and Connected TV (CTV). In addition to the reports for the U.S. and Canada, Pixalate has also released Top Grossing Apps Reports for the UK, France, Spain, Germany, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Mexico, and Brazil.

Top Grossing Mobile and CTV Apps in December 2024 - North America

U.S:

• Mobile: Vita Mahjong led ($3M estimated open programmatic ad revenue) in the Apple App Store, and Pandora ($6M estimated open programmatic ad revenue) is no. 1 in the Google Play Store
• CTV: Hulu leads on all four CTV platforms: Roku ($80M estimated open programmatic ad revenue), Apple TV ($22M estimated open programmatic ad revenue), Amazon Fire TV ($20M estimated open programmatic revenue), and Samsung Smart TV ($26M estimated open programmatic ad revenue)
  

Canada

• Mobile: SoundCloud ($311k estimated open programmatic ad revenue) leads in the Apple App Store and is no. 1 in the Google Play Store ($588K estimated open programmatic ad revenue)
• CTV: Kidoodle.TV®- Safe Streaming™ is no. 1 on Roku ($127k estimated open programmatic revenue, Fubo: Watch Live TV & Sports leads on Apple TV ($76k estimated open programmatic revenue), Pluto TV - It’s Free TV is no. 1 on Amazon Fire TV ($61k estimated open programmatic revenue), and Cheddar leads on Samsung Smart TV with an estimated $55k in open programmatic revenue

For these reports, in December 2024, Pixalate's data science team analyzed 33 billion open programmatic impressions across 6 million mobile apps (including delisted apps) from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. They also examined 6,000 CTV apps and 3 billion global ad impressions to compile this research.

Download the Global Top Grossing Mobile & CTV Apps:

Mobile

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• France
• Spain
• Germany
• China
• Japan
• Singapore
• India
• Mexico
• Brazil

CTV

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• Mexico

About Pixalate

Pixalate is a global platform specializing in privacy compliance, ad fraud prevention, and digital ad supply chain data intelligence. Founded in 2012, Pixalate is trusted by regulators, data researchers, advertisers, publishers, ad tech platforms, and financial analysts across the Connected TV (CTV), mobile app, and website ecosystems. Pixalate is accredited by the MRC for the detection and filtration of Sophisticated Invalid Traffic (SIVT). pixalate.com

Disclaimer

The content of this press release, and the Top Grossing Mobile Apps (the “Reports”), reflect Pixalate's opinions with respect to factors that Pixalate believes can be useful to the digital media industry. Pixalate's opinions are just that, opinions, which means that they are neither facts nor guarantees. Pixalate is sharing this data not to impugn the standing or reputation of any entity, person or app, but, instead, to report findings and trends pertaining to programmatic advertising activity across mobile apps in the time period studied.

Nina Talcott
                    ntalcott@pixalate.com