Apple Music Ranks Among Top 15 Smartphone Apps in First Month New Service is Introduced*
RESTON, VA, September 3, 2015 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a global leader in digital media analytics, today released data from Comscore MobiLens® and Mobile Metrix®, reporting key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry for July 2015. Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 44.2 percent OEM market share, while Google Android led as the #1 smartphone platform with 51.4 percent platform market share. Facebook ranked as the top individual smartphone app.
Smartphone OEM Market Share191.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (77.1 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in July. Apple ranked as the top OEM with 44.2 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers (up 1.1 percentage points from April). Samsung ranked second with 27.3 percent market share, followed by LG with 8.7 percent (up 0.3 percentage points), Motorola with 4.9 percent and HTC with 3.5 percent.
Top Smartphone OEMs3 Month Avg. Ending Jul. 2015 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Apr. 2015Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Age 13+Source: Comscore MobiLens
Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
Apr-15
Jul-15
Point Change
Total Smartphone Subscribers
100.0%
N/A
Apple
43.1%
44.2%
1.1
Samsung
28.6%
27.3%
-1.3
LG
8.4%
8.7%
0.3
Motorola
4.9%
0.0
HTC
3.7%
3.5%
-0.2
Smartphone Platform Market ShareAndroid ranked as the top smartphone platform in July with 51.4 percent market share, followed by Apple with 44.2 percent (up 1.1 percentage points from April), Microsoft with 2.9 percent, BlackBerry with 1.3 percent and Symbian with 0.1 percent.
Top Smartphone Platforms3 Month Avg. Ending Jul. 2015 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Apr. 2015Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Age 13+Source: Comscore MobiLens
Android
52.2%
51.4%
-0.8
Microsoft
3.0%
2.9%
-0.1
BlackBerry
1.5%
1.3%
Symbian
0.1%
Top Smartphone AppsFacebook ranked as the top smartphone app, reaching 73.3 percent of the app audience, followed by Facebook Messenger (59.5 percent), YouTube (59.3 percent) and Google Search (52 percent).
Top 15 Smartphone AppsJuly 2015Total U.S. Smartphone Mobile Media Users, Age 18+ (iOS and Android Platforms)Source: Comscore Mobile Metrix
Top 15 Apps
% Reach
1
Facebook
73.3%
2
Facebook Messenger
59.5%
3
YouTube
59.3%
4
Google Search
52.0%
5
Google Play
51.8%
6
Google Maps
50.6%
7
Pandora Radio
43.9%
8
Gmail
43.4%
9
Instagram
38.7%
10
Yahoo Stocks
31.1%
11
Apple Maps
28.2%
12
Amazon Mobile
26.1%
13
Twitter
25.7%
14
Apple Music*
24.1%
15
Snapchat
21.9%
*Clarification: “Apple Music,” as it appears in Comscore’s July reporting, is the same measured entity as the previously named “iTunes Radio/iCloud” that has been reported in past months’ mobile rankings. This entity, now under the new name, is referring to Apple’s native music app, which captures all music activity within that app, including listening via the streaming service, radio service and users’ personally downloaded music libraries. (Sept. 4)
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