{"id":104742,"date":"2019-11-26T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354817"},"modified":"2019-11-26T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:22:00","slug":"analyst-roblox-revenue-on-mobile-alone-surpasses-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/analyst-roblox-revenue-on-mobile-alone-surpasses-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst: Roblox revenue on mobile alone surpasses $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estimates from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sensortower.com\/blog\/roblox-one-billion-revenue\">market analyst firm Sensor Tower<\/a> say <em>Roblox Mobile<\/em>, the iOS and Android version of the online game platform, has surpassed $1 billion lifetime gross revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Sensor Tower\u2019s estimates have <em>Roblox Mobile<\/em> at 290 million downloads across both the App Store and Google Play, with 67 percent of that estimated $1 billion revenue coming from players in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the bulk of spending, around 76 percent, comes from players on Apple platforms, though Android devices make up 75 percent of total downloads.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile versions of <em>Roblox<\/em> have been around for quite some time already&#8211;the iOS version launched back in 2012 and Android back in 2014\u2014but overall, <em>Roblox<\/em> as a whole has seen an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/337847\/Roblox_boasts_over_1_billion_hours_of_engagement_per_month.php\">uptick in engagement<\/a> during the last several years by the studio&#8217;s&nbsp;own count.&nbsp;Recent Roblox Corporation-released figures as well place the DIY game platform\u2019s monthly active users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/348047\/Roblox_has_surpassed_100_million_monthly_active_users.php\">over 100 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimates from the market analyst firm Sensor Tower say Roblox Mobile, the iOS and Android version of the online game platform, has surpassed $1 billion lifetime gross revenue. Sensor Tower\u2019s estimates have Roblox Mobile at 290 million downloads across both the App Store and Google Play, with 67 percent of that estimated $1 billion revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}