AI Insights · Timothy · March 2022
Top 5 News and Magazines Apps on Android in South America - Q1 2022
An overview of the performance of the top 5 News and Magazines apps on Android in South America during Q1 2022, including downloads, active users, and revenue trends.
In the first quarter of 2022, the top 5 News and Magazines apps on the Android platform in South America demonstrated varied performance trends in terms of downloads and active users. Here’s a closer look at each app's performance based on Sensor Tower data.
NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts saw a notable fluctuation in weekly downloads, starting strong with approximately 216K downloads in late December and peaking at 275K in mid-January. However, its downloads gradually declined to around 55K by early March. The app maintained a relatively stable user base, starting at 1.74M active users and ending the quarter with 1.69M.
Opera News: breaking & local experienced significant growth in both downloads and active users. Weekly downloads surged from around 1.5K in late December to a high of 240K in late February. Active users followed a similar upward trend, starting at 16K and reaching over 666K by the end of February, before stabilizing around 600K towards the end of March.
G1 Portal de Notícias da Globo showed consistent performance with a noticeable spike in downloads in early February, reaching 101K. The weekly active users increased from 705K at the beginning of the quarter to a peak of 950K in late February, before slightly declining to 781K by the end of March.
NewsBreak Lite observed a steady decline in downloads over the quarter, starting at 66K in late December and dropping to approximately 18K by the end of March. Active users mirrored this trend, decreasing from around 98K to 65K throughout the quarter.
Breaking News: Local & Alerts faced a downward trend in downloads, starting at 109K in late December and dropping to a low of 17K in mid-March before slightly rebounding to 32K by the end of the month. Active users initially decreased from 746K to 422K but saw a recovery to 496K by the end of March.
These trends highlight the dynamic nature of user engagement and app performance in the News and Magazines category. For more detailed insights and data, visit Sensor Tower.
