Once shunned by Western consumers, TikTok has now become an unstoppable global phenomenon. Evidenced by the very good health of the application, which dominates the download statistics.
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TikTok is a social network for sharing video clips that has quickly established itself as a leader in this space. It is available as a mobile application and you can take it anywhere.
Downloads: 2652
Release date: 04/27/2022
Author: TikTok
License: Free license
Categories: Video – Communication
Operating system: Android, online service All Internet browsers, Windows 10/11, iOS iPhone / iPad
TikTok is the world’s most downloaded application in the first three months of 2022. These figures, brought to us from the latest report by the Sensor Tower Institute, show that the Chinese application surpassed the 3.5 billion downloads mark in the first exceeded three months in quarter 2022. At the beginning of the year alone, the software was downloaded around 185 million times (27 million in Europe). These results far surpass the stats from Instagram, Facebook, or other software from the Meta company, which peaked at around 150-160 million downloads in the same quarter.
These stratospheric results are mainly due to large download volumes on Android. Users of Google’s mobile OS let the app slide to the top of the rankings with 120 million downloads, the rest is accounted for by installations on iPhone and iPad (around 70 million). The Chinese application is the only non-Meta controlled service to surpass the symbolic mark of 3.5 billion downloads. This report confirms the strong trend in favor of TikTok, which has dominated download statistics since 2018.
However, Meta and its many services are not left out. If none of the applications benefit from the same dynamism as TikTok, the American company dominates the ranking by the number of its applications in the top 20. In second, third and fourth place we find Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, all great despite the Controversy affecting WhatsApp last year surpassed 100 million downloads in the quarter. Finally, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp Business slipped to 8th and 12th place in the ranking. Overall, the meta group thus plays an important role in the market for mobile applications.
Unsurprisingly, in the rest of the ranking we find services like Twitter, Amazon or Netflix. Both the App Store and Google Play Store also saw small growth in the first quarter, with 36.9 billion app downloads, up 1.4 points from the first quarter of 2021.