The Ville, SimCity Social, Washington Post, YouTube, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
Zynga’s The Ville gained the most daily active users this week on our list of top growing Facebook apps by DAU. The developer’s Bubble Safari, Zynga Slingo and Ruby Blast also made appearances.
The titles below grew between 400,000 and 14.9 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook.
Top Gainers This Week
|
Name |
MAU |
Gain |
Gain % |
| 1. |
 The Ville |
38,400,000 |
+14,900,000 |
+ 63% |
| 2. |
 SimCity Social |
12,200,000 |
+4,000,000 |
+ 49% |
| 3. |
 SongPop |
12,100,000 |
+1,400,000 |
+ 13% |
| 4. |
 Dragon City |
8,100,000 |
+1,400,000 |
+ 25% |
| 5. |
 Instagram |
25,200,000 |
+900,000 |
+ 4% |
| 6. |
 Bubble Safari |
28,800,000 |
+800,000 |
+ 3% |
| 7. |
 Zynga Slingo |
13,200,000 |
+700,000 |
+ 6% |
| 8. |
 Zoosk |
12,700,000 |
+700,000 |
+ 6% |
| 9. |
 Washington Post Social Reader |
3,300,000 |
+600,000 |
+ 22% |
| 10. |
 Diamond Dash |
18,300,000 |
+600,000 |
+ 4% |
| 11. |
 YouTube |
2,300,000 |
+600,000 |
+ 35% |
| 12. |
 Ruby Blast |
1,900,000 |
+500,000 |
+ 46% |
| 13. |
 CSR Racing |
2,200,000 |
+500,000 |
+ 29% |
| 14. |
 8 Ball Pool |
4,200,000 |
+500,000 |
+ 14% |
| 15. |
 Spotify |
26,000,000 |
+500,000 |
+ 2% |
| 16. |
 Keek |
650,000 |
+410,000 |
+ 171% |
| 17. |
 HTML Page Tab #8 |
3,200,000 |
+400,000 |
+ 19% |
| 18. |
 HTML Page Tab #6 |
2,900,000 |
+400,000 |
+ 16% |
| 19. |
 Static HTML Iframe Tab |
3,700,000 |
+400,000 |
+ 12% |
| 20. |
 The Sims Social |
16,400,000 |
+400,000 |
+ 3% |
|
EA’s SimCity Social came in at No. 2 and The Sims Social closes our list at No. 20.
No. 9 Washington Post Social Reader is back on the rise after a period of decline when Facebook changed how news reader stories appear in News Feed.
YouTube‘s Facebook integration was No. 11 with a 35 percent increase in DAU likely related Olympic viewing. YouTube is powering livestreaming, replays and highlights for NBC. Many other outlets are updating their YouTube channels with coverage of the games.
All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.
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