Hi, this is A Minute of Overpass.
My name is Eric and I make apps.
Now this week I've found that Overpass Apps have had over 3 million downloads and I'm
gonna talk a little bit about how we got those downloads and where we they've come from.
I was once asked how many downloads you have today and I wasn't able to answer it specifically
and he was surprised by that but the reason was because there's so many different sources.
You got iTunes, you got Google Play, you got Amazon, you got the Samsung Store, you got
various other smaller Android markets, you got the Chinese Android markets, all these
kind of stuff.
So I don't always know on a day-to-day basis how many downloads we've done in total.
Every few months I'll go through and I'll take all the sources and I'll compile them
and put them together.
And I haven't done it in a few months.
So, I did it yesterday morning.
I was surprised to find out that we, Overpass, have exceeded 3 MILLION app downloads globally.
So, now over 3 million people have downloaded an Overpass app.
They've seen the splash screen, they've given us some of their attention for at least a
few minutes, hopefully longer.
The actual number here is three million one hundred ninety two thousand and sixty-eight
downloads so far.
So, hey I'm really really pleased about that.
When we started I wasn't sure we would get any.
I was surprised when we had the first couple hundreds.
It takes a lot of faith, it takes a lot of working towards it, a lot of people saying
"You know what you should do?
Your idea would be better if you did this or whatever" and just sticking to and staying
on the course and just keep pushing it.
So now we're getting about six or seven thousand downloads a day across all the applications
so it's really good.
So here's a breakdown by the market, just to give you an idea where everything is coming
from.
Unlike most developers, Overpass apps are more popular on Google Play than on any other
platform.
So here you can see that seventy-seven percent of all of our downloads come from Google Play.
Where most app developers will focus more on iTunes so here we only get sixteen percent
of downloads coming from iTunes.
This yellow one here is Amazon, which is a very small portion, and we've only recently
started putting things back in to Amazon because for a while it didn't seem worth the time
to actually do it.
And this green bit here is Samsung and that one has done very well but we stopped uploading
to them basically because the Samsung market is just really difficult to use.
It takes too long to upload a build and then after a while you think well it just slows
down the whole process so all the stuff on Samsung is actually pretty old.
But.
that's pretty cool.
So, three million one hundred ninety thousand and sixty eight.
Now that's more than the population of Mongolia or Armenia or Albania.
Now, to be fair, according to the World Population Clock, the global population at this moment
is over seven billion, three hundred twenty seven million, so you know, we still got a
ways to go.
So it's not so bad.
Now if you wanna see where these downloads are coming from here's my App Annie account
just for the last month.
So you can see our biggest market on a day-to-day basis across all the stores, actually this
excludes Samsung, but this is across iTunes, Google Play and Amazon, is the United States.
It's always been the top.
The US has been our biggest market.
However, our second biggest market is Brazil and then followed by Mexico and this is big
consistently.
And the reason for that is we started globalizing our apps last year when we started making
sure that when we release an app we make sure that they're localizable so we can make sure
we release in Portuguese which as you see is really important.
And Spanish which is also very important.
So yes, we're moving along there.
My message this week I suppose, if there's any, is when you release an app you have to
be a bit diligent and you have to have a lot of faith.
This didn't come overnight and for a while, I didn't think it was gonna do well at all.
So it's really happy about the three million.
It's not quite the seven billion yet but we're working on it.
And I'd like to thank the developers Sandee, and Joey, and Rizz, and Calvin, and Kim who
are on our team.
And also Minesh and his team for all the help over the past few years.
And like I said, we're releasing new apps everyday.
We released two last week and it's just gonna keep getting bigger.So, anyway, just a little
bit of humble brag there.
That's it for this week's A Minute of Overpass.
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Goodbye.