The world of smartphone apps is a hard place to succeed in. Only one in six smartphone apps exceed 500 total downloads and 75 percent of apps earn the developer less than $500 per month. Because app markets are saturated, very few apps are able to accumulate many downloads.
In this infographic, take a look at five of the top grossing free apps on the Android market to see what they did that led them to major success.
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Brian Wallace is the Founder and President of NowSourcing, an industry leading content marketing agency that makes the world's ideas simple, visual, and influential. Brian has been named a Google Small Business Advisor for 2016-present, joined the SXSW Advisory Board in 2019-present and became an SMB Advisor for Lexmark in 2023. He is the Co-Founder for The Innovate Summit which successfully launched in May 2024.
