1- Less than a week since its release, and Pokémon GO is reportedly bigger than Tinder in the US.
2- It’s estimated that Pokémon Go had 15 million downloads in it’s first week of release, and earns $1.6 million in daily revenue.
3- Pokémon Go was inspired by a 2014 Google April fool’s joke in which a job ad was placed for a Pokémon Master and asked players to explore a map catching Pokémon. The huge interest in the prank sparked an idea and here we are today.
4- According to SimilarWeb, an incredible 62 percent of Android users in the US alone are currently playing the game every single day.
5- Pokémon GO players on Android were playing an average of forty-three minutes and twenty-three seconds per day, which is about the average amount of time people spend on Facebook each day.
6- Outside of the US, users around the world have been trying to download Pokemon Go using an APK, bypassing the official app store. The main source, apkmirror.com, saw its traffic go from roughly 600,000 visits on 5 July to over four million visits on 6 July alone.
7- What makes Pokémon GO such an overwhelming trend? Well, keep in mind that for you to find Pokémon to collect, and gyms to battle in, you have to walk around in the real world. Your character in the game walks and turns when you walk and turn.
8- Nintendo are raking in the benefits of the app, even though Pokémon Go is of course a free download, Nintendo’s stock prices increased by 23% after the app’s launch.
8- Nintendo are raking in the benefits of the app, even though Pokémon Go is of course a free download, Nintendo’s stock prices increased by 23% after the app’s launch.
9- The app isn’t available globally yet, and just as many people are using Pokémon GO on a daily basis as Twitter. It’s truly scary to think about how much bigger it will get once it's released worldwide.
10-According to its developers, Pokémon GO is destined to help people with anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. Since it’s a game that requires people to physically get up and go outside, it encourages people with agoraphobia to leave their house, exercise, and engage with other people.