Video, photos, House MD, smileys, Chinese music, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
A digital photo app, DoAlbums, topped our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week.
We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew by between 100,000 and 490,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook.
Top Gainers This Week
| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain,% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 720,000 | +490,000 | + 213% | |
| 2. | 660,000 | +450,000 | + 214% | |
| 3. | 730,000 | +360,000 | + 97% | |
| 4. | 460,000 | +290,000 | + 171% | |
| 5. | 740,000 | +200,000 | + 37% | |
| 6. | 350,000 | +180,000 | + 106% | |
| 7. | 420,000 | +180,000 | + 75% | |
| 8. | 260,000 | +180,000 | + 225% | |
| 9. | 410,000 | +160,000 | + 64% | |
| 10. | 590,000 | +150,000 | + 34% | |
| 11. | 710,000 | +150,000 | + 27% | |
| 12. | 320,000 | +150,000 | + 88% | |
| 13. | 830,000 | +150,000 | + 22% | |
| 14. | 910,000 | +140,000 | + 18% | |
| 15. | 330,000 | +140,000 | + 74% | |
| 16. | 310,000 | +140,000 | + 82% | |
| 17. | 570,000 | +120,000 | + 27% | |
| 18. | 300,000 | +120,000 | + 67% | |
| 19. | 650,000 | +110,000 | + 20% | |
| 20. | 430,000 | +100,000 | + 30% |
DoAlbums helps users create photo albums on Facebook by uploading photos from their computers or Instagram accounts. Video apps were popular as well. There was Polish video site Vidd, group video chat app ooVoo and mobile video effects app GifBoom.
House M.D.: Critical Cases led the games, and quiz apps continue to be popular. Cute Smileys grew by postings a photo to the stream of a user’s name designed with smiley faces. Crush Meter tells a user which of their friends has a “crush” on them.
Finally, online community Waze – Drive Social, page app The Fan Machine and Chinese music platform KKBOX (not available in the U.S.) rounded out our list.
All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned next week for our look at the top weekly gainers by monthly active users on Monday, the top weekly gainers by daily active users on Wednesday, and the top emerging apps on Friday.
June 3rd, 2012 at 10:18 am
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