David Curry

London

Data Editor at Business of Apps

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Articles

Mapping the AI app ecosystem

2 weeks ago | businessofapps.com | David Curry

The AI app market is projected to be the fastest-growing category on both the iOS and Google Play stores over the next five years. Already, thousands of new apps launched this year feature generative AI at the core of their user experience. At the high end of the market, chatbots and media generation tools are driving significant user growth, with revenue beginning to reflect the substantial investments made in recent years.
Cutting research staff could endanger lives

3 weeks ago | thegazette.com | David Curry

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Twelve years ago, I was diagnosed with stage-four cancer. Fortunately, I received effective treatment, the cancer was eliminated, and it still is in remission. So I personally have benefited from the treatments developed by medical research.
TikTok reclaims title of most downloaded app of the year

Feb 3, 2025 | businessofapps.com | David Curry

TikTok has reclaimed its crown as the world’s most downloaded app, dethroning Instagram, which briefly stole the top spot in 2023. It was a two horse race for most of the year, with TikTok ending on 773 million downloads and Instagram on 759 million, according to data provided by Appfigures and AppMagic. Both apps had higher total downloads in 2024 than 2023. Instagram relies heavily on India for its downloads, the country was responsible for about 40 percent of total downloads in 2024.
Health & Fitness App Benchmarks (2024)

Jan 20, 2025 | businessofapps.com | David Curry

The health and fitness app industry covers three main pillars: health, fitness and wellness. All three are connected to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and apps tend to pick and choose a few things to track from each. This was one of the industries that had both positive and negative effects from the pandemic. Home workouts shot up in usage, while all gyms were closed for a time. Wellness apps also noticed an uptick in users.
Amazon Prime Music Revenue and Usage Statistics (2024)

Nov 5, 2024 | businessofapps.com | David Curry

Music streaming service Amazon Prime Music started life as Amazon MP3, an iTunes-like digital distributor of MP3 downloads. Amazon was the first digital operator to offer music without digital rights management (DRM) and watermarks, a big accomplishment at the time as many publishers were still opposed to digital in all forms. When it launched its music streaming service in the early 2010s, it offered the streaming service to Prime users at no additional cost.
First Vendors Achieve MEF SD-WAN Certification

Sep 13, 2024 | networkcomputing.com | Pascal Menezes |David Curry

The MEF SD-WAN certification is the first step in the process to SASE certification. Certification comprises three modules: SD-WAN, Security Service Edge (SSE), and Zero Trust. MEF, the industry consortium of network, cloud, and security providers, recently announced the first batch of technology providers to have reached the SD-WAN certification milestone, the first module in its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) certification program.
TikTok and Instagram Reels neck and neck in app usage

Sep 11, 2024 | businessofapps.com | David Curry

The battle for the short-form video crown is still ongoing, with TikTok, Instagram and YouTube all battling for eyeballs. According to research published in our Video Streaming App Report, TikTok and Instagram Reels are neck and neck in terms of app users. Both platforms handle about 1.5 billion active users a month. TikTok was the original short-form video app, ballooning in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic.
Video Streaming App Report 2024

Sep 4, 2024 | businessofapps.com | David Curry |Felipe del Sol |Robert Emerson |Platon Levitski

This 100+ page report delivers an holistic overview of the video streaming app market, featuring detailed charts on industry trends, financial performance, market share, engagement and benchmarking statistics. It provides valuable insights into the rapid expansion and shifting dynamics of video streaming platforms. The video streaming industry generated $199 billion in 2023, an increase of 14.3% on the previous year.
AI App Report 2024

Jul 2, 2024 | businessofapps.com | David Curry |Felipe del Sol |Robert Emerson |Platon Levitski

Our AI App Report is the most comprehensive piece of research on the AI app market, with detailed forecasts on the generative AI market. We also cover AI app usage, downloads by app, demographics and benchmarking data. AI apps generated $1.8 billion in 2023, with image generators and editors responsible for $1.2 billion of that revenue. In terms of chatbots, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is far ahead of competitors. It also has a lead on others in terms of image generation, through DALL-E on ChatGPT.
What is an AI Factory?

Jun 25, 2024 | networkcomputing.com | David Curry

For the last few years, there has been industry talk of a concept called the AI factory. The overall idea behind an AI factory is to have an AI-optimized architecture and perhaps managed service to run AI workloads and accelerate any work that makes use of AI. To that end, an AI factory (as the term factory implies) operationalizes the use of AI.