Qimai Data has Released the 2018 Most Powerful APP List showing Chinese Developers leading in Overseas Markets

December 12 18:00 2018

On December 12, the NextWorld2018 New Force Growth Summit initiated by Qimai Data, jointly hosted by Zero2IPO Group, The Founder, Netease and ZHIQUN and co-organized by Pedaily.cn and Beluga Global, saw its grand opening in Beijing, China. Xu Huan, the co-founder & CEO of Qimai Data, delivered a great speech on site and has released Top300 on the 2018 Most Powerful APP List and Top100 on the 2018 Most Powerful Mobile Game List.

The Lists ranked the application and mobile game Apps at home and abroad in accordance with their grades of power, which were calculated on the basis of the data collected and analyzed by the institution under Qimai Data from the perspectives of App user download, income (for mobile games only), user reputation and market brand power, thus bringing forth 400 outstanding powerful Apps in the year 2018.

 

Games Achieved Outstanding Performance Overseas, Global Income Stunned the People

This year was regarded a year of the “going global” outbreak of mobile games. In November, People’s Daily Overseas published an article titled “Speed up, Domestic Games Going Global”, which commented domestic games’ achievements overseas “extraordinary” and recognized the significance of Chinese games as carriers of the export of our cultural confidence. By report, in the first half of 2018 only, mobile games independently developed by Chinese developers have created the overseas revenue of USD 4.63 billion, among which more than 200 games have reached the overseas income of USD 1 million each.

 

Among Top100 on the 2018 Most Powerful Mobile Game List grandly published by Qimai Institute, most products achieved outstanding performance in the overseas markets. Two major game makers, Tencent and Netease, successfully expanded their markets to Europe and America, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan with PUBG Mobile, Arena of Valor and other quality products. Knvies Out, a game of netease, even held the title of “the Chinese mobile game of the highest income going global” for several months.

Magnates Remained Evident Advantages, New Population Enabled Traffic Growth

Among Top300 on the 2018 Most Powerful App List, toutiao took over the top position with TikTok. Baidu, Ali and Tencent still took the leading positions. Apps represented by TikTok and pinduoduo achieved striking performance through their new population-enabling growth among young people of the new generation, users in third and fourth-tier cities and other groups.

Xu Huan, the Co-founder & CEO of Qimai Data, denoted that, aside from new population, the 2018 App List also showed the trend of “new retail’s going online”. New retail businesses represented by luckin coffee and Coffee Box also presented a strong momentum this year. With continuous efforts from traditional industries and the Internet, another phenomenal trend was generated.

Today, with heat Apps more and more difficult to be built, China’s mobile products have won popularity on markets at home and abroad with their outstanding creativity and user experience. Overviewing the 2018 most powerful Apps and mobile games indicated that, Chinese developers will continue to introduce new technologies, new forms and new scenarios to bring in new vitality and new growth to the mobile Internet industry at home and abroad!

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