US Consumers to Generate Nearly 60% of Global Sports and Energy Drinks Revenue in 2022
Energy and sports drinks are set to become a $166bn worth industry in 2022, with revenues growing by a CAGR of 4.5% year-over-year. Although the two drinks are bought by…
Brazil and Germany Have the Highest Number of Goals Scored at FIFA World Cups, 231 and 230 so Far
The FIFA World Cup 2022 Golden Boot race is on, with some of the world’s best goal-scorers taking their talents to the biggest stage. While France’s Kylian Mbappe leads the…
Streaming Viewership Falls for Five Quarters in a Row with 7.27B Hours Watched in Q3, an 11% Drop YOY
After a record-breaking 2020 and 2021, live streaming viewership continued falling for the fifth quarter in a row. According to data presented by Sports Lens, gamers and eSports fans spent…
World’s Top 10 Most Valuable Football Clubs Grossed $6.5B in 2022, 300M more than Last Year
After a challenging last season, most of the world’s top-grossing football clubs have seen their revenue grow in 2022. Most of the increase came in matchday and broadcasting revenues, with…
Samsung Galaxy Top Android Phone Globally with a 7.4% Market Share in November
Last year, more than one billion Android smartphones were shipped across the globe. Today, the world’s most popular mobile operating system has over 2.8 billion active users, and most prefer…
Dallas Cowboys the Most Followed NFL Team with 12.5M Fans on Facebook and Twitter
Playing the world’s top-grossing sport brings millions of fans, besides the field watching live games, and on social media as well. Clubs from the National Football League count their social…
Mobile Games to Lose 80 million Players in 2022
The gaming industry has faced a variety of headwinds and challenges in 2022, which caused a first-ever user drop. Regulatory issues in China, inflation, and the end of Covid-19 lockdowns…
App Store Grossed $65B in Nine Months of 2022, more than twice as Google Play
After years of impressive growth, the global app market started slowing down in 2022, both in revenue and downloads. However, people still spend billions of dollars on mobile apps each…
Romelu Lukaku Tops List of Biggest Market Value Losers in 2022
Plenty of football stars saw their market value plummet last season, whether because of the transfer flop, someone who struggled for form or an aging player. However, some names stand…
Global App Market to Hit $490B in Revenue and 262 billion Downloads in 2023
With roughly 6.6 billion mobile phone users worldwide, or 82% of the world’s population, the mobile app industry continues surging with no signs of stopping any time soon. In 2022,…
Manchester City Becomes the Second Largest Brand in Football World, Ahead of Barcelona FC
In top-tier football leagues, players’ market values are measured in hundreds of millions of euros, while clubs often come with a one billion euros price tag. Although Spanish clubs have…
World’s Five Most Valuable Football Players Worth more than AC Milan, Aston Villa or Juventus
Big spending in the 2022 summer transfers window showed that football is recovering financially after Covid-19, with some of the world’s best players witnessing their market values surge after signing…
More than 1.1M Apps Removed from Google Play Store in the First Half of 2022
As one of the two largest distribution channels for mobile apps, Google Play has significantly cut down the number of available apps since the beginning of the year. According to…
