App Annie reports that business apps topped 62 million downloads across iOS & Google Play during the week of March 14-21, 2020 worldwide — its biggest week ever.
This was up 45% from the week prior — the highest growth among any category across the app stores combined that week — & up 90% from the weekly average of business app downloads in 2019. Record-levels of consumers demand work connectivity & accessibility from their mobile as the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies in Europe & the US.
ZOOM Cloud Meetings topped downloads charts globally throughout February & March, & downloads continue to see elevated downloads through the US, UK & Europe, said the report. During the week of March 15-21, ZOOM Cloud Meetings was downloaded 14x more than the weekly average during Q4 2019 in the US, 20x more in the UK, 22x more in France, 17x more in Germany, 27x more in Spain & 55x more in Italy.
During the same time frame, Hangouts Meet saw particularly strong growth in downloads in the UK, US, Spain & Italy at 24x, 30x, 64x & 140x the average weekly downloads in Q4 2019, respectively. Microsoft Teams also saw notable growth in Spain, France & Italy at 15x, 16x and 30x the weekly level of downloads seen on average in Q4 2019.
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