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| By Jessica Lee | 13 Comments » |
As summer advances, the application leaderboards are showing healthy signs of growth. According to AppData, the top gainers this week in the one million to 10 million monthly active users (MAU) category are a combination of gaming, quiz, music, and events-related apps that are reporting impressive numbers. Let’s take a closer look.
| Name | MAU | Gain |
Gain, % | Developer | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  |
FarmVille | 9,971,080 | +2,993,470 | +42.9 | Zynga |
| 2. |  |
Food Fling! | 2,495,178 | +1,301,267 | +109.0 | OffBeat Creations, Inc. |
| 3. |  |
Quizzer | 2,971,217 | +1,065,025 | +55.9 | idleStudios |
| 4. |  |
FARKLE | 3,519,250 | +866,144 | +32.7 | Viral, s.r.o. |
| 5. |  |
What Type Of Girl Are you? | 1,542,841 | +625,985 | +68.3 | Paige Crossman |
| 6. |  |
Hugged | 3,388,948 | +620,799 | +22.4 | Manakki |
| 7. |  |
Zoosk | 6,259,113 | +618,892 | +11.0 | Zoosk |
| 8. |  |
Restaurant City | 6,681,857 | +498,329 | +8.1 | Playfish |
| 9. |  |
YoVille | 8,673,186 | +465,236 | +5.7 | Zynga |
| 10. |  |
Music | 9,096,112 | +377,682 | +4.3 | iLike, inc |
| 11. |  |
Barn Buddy | 3,977,136 | +368,699 | +10.2 | TheBroth, Inc. |
| 12. |  |
UNO™ BETA | 2,440,721 | +276,230 | +12.8 | GameHouse |
| 13. |  |
Circle of Moms | 1,751,386 | +223,285 | +14.6 | Circle of Moms |
| 14. |  |
Waka-Waka | 3,671,502 | +219,351 | +6.4 | Metrogames |
| 15. |  |
Biotronic | 3,946,133 | +210,696 | +5.6 | Metrogames |
| 16. |  |
Facebook® for BlackBerry® smartphones | 7,164,916 | +202,850 | +2.9 | Research In Motion, Ltd. |
| 17. |  |
SocialCalendar | 1,144,021 | +159,391 | +16.2 | SocialCalendar.com |
| 18. |  |
Quiz Monster | 1,291,517 | +158,801 | +14.0 | Quiz Monster |
| 19. |  |
Tattoodle | 1,662,681 | +148,635 | +9.8 | Make The Web Better |
| 20. |  |
Hug Me | 4,218,777 | +125,078 | +3.1 | RockYou! |
The top gainer this week is FarmVille, which saw a gain in nearly three million MAU, a 43 percent increase in monthly active users.
Developed by Zynga, the app allows users to grow their own farms by planting seeds and trees, purchasing animals, buildings, and decorations, and visiting your friends’ farms. Users earn coins along the way to unlock special items (like the pumpkin seeds!) and can buy more coins via credit card, PayPal, mobile phone, etc. While Zynga is currently on the sending and receiving end of IP-related lawsuits – and FarmVille itself can’t be called an original idea – it is showing tremendous success in terms of user acquisition and growth. Launched not even a month ago, the app currently stands at almost 10 million MAU.
And sharing the Top Five spot with FarmVille are Food Fling! (a virtual food fight app), Quizzer (a quiz creator and directory), FARKLE (the addicting dice game we covered earlier), and What Type of Girl Are you? The Top Five shows us that social gaming and quiz apps are in the lead, growing anywhere from 33 to 109 percent in the past week.
The Top 20 fastest growing apps this week also include Playfish’s Restaurant City (#8), competitor to FarmVille Barn Buddy (#11), Circle of Moms (#13), SocialCalendar (#17), and RockYou!’s Hug Me (#20).
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July 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Equally impressive is that Farmville hasn’t cannabalized Farm Town as both applications have continued to grow since Farmville’s launch. Over 7.5 million users are playing the two games each day. Additionally, Farm Town appears to have reached a new daily record, hitting 4.5 million daily active users on Monday.
see chart at http://www.voncoelln.com/eric/2009/07/13/there-is-room-for-two-farm-sim-games-dominate-top-five-facebook-applications/
July 15th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
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July 15th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Initially yoville was good, later they complicated game so much that it became slow and useless. Hope that wont happen with farmville.
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July 30th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
FarmVille is a BLATANT ripoff of FarmTown, which is a much better game
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December 8th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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