FX.co ★ Top 10 most successful app companies

InterActiveCorp

InterActiveCorp, an American corporation, takes tenth place on our list of most successful app developers. Since its foundation in 1995, InterActiveCorp has expanded the scope of management to 150 brands in more than 100 countries. The company employs more than 7,000 people. InterActiveCorp’s headquarters are in New York.

InterActiveCorp has all the things needed to succeed in the mobile games and interactive applications market. The corporation is owned by Match.com, one of the largest dating websites. InterActiveCorp was involved in the creation of Tinder, a popular dating service. The company’s areas of focus also include search engines ask.com and about.com, several news websites, and Vimeo, an online video service.

Playtika

Playtika, an Israeli digital entertainment company, is the ninth most profitable app developer in the world. The company has been creating slot games for mobile platforms and social networks since 2010. The game dev company was founded by Israelis Robert Antokol and Uri Shahak.

Slotomania - the company’s debut product - has become the most popular slot game in the world. Other popular games contain Bingo Blitz, Caesars Casino, House of Fun, WSOP, etc.

Despite being a member of a consortium, Playtika maintains independence and employs about 1,500 people in Israel, the USA, Australia, Argentina, Belarus, Canada, Romania, Ukraine, and Japan. The company is based in Herzliya.

Sony

Sony is ranked eighth in the ranking. This is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo. The company was established in 1946. Sony makes home and professional electronics, game consoles, and other high-tech products.

Despite poor financial results in recent years, Sony continues to be one of the world's largest media conglomerates. In addition to game consoles, Sony develops mobile applications for the PlayStation 4.

Playrix

The Russian company Playrix is a developer of free-to-play mobile games. The company takes seventh place on the list. The founders of Playrix are brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman. They established the company back in 2004 and moved the main office to Dublin.

Today, it is one of the most successful gaming companies in the world with more than 2,000 employees and revenue of $1.7 billion. Playrix is famous for the development of games such as In the Name of the King, Township, Fishdom, Gardenscapes, Homescapes, and Wildscapes.

Netmarble

Bang Jun-hyuk, the founder of Netmarble, is often compared with Steve Jobs. Since its launch in 2000, the company has repeatedly faced challenges. However, Netmarble managed to come out of a difficult situation with credit every time.

Marvel Future Fight has been downloaded over 50 million times since its release in April 2015, while Lineage 2: Revolution, a role-playing game, became second after Pokémon Go in the history of mobile games, earning almost $175 million in the first month.

Thanks to a successful IPO at the end of April 2020, the company took sixth place among the largest manufacturers of video games. The company’s capitalization is over $12.2 billion.

Bandai Namco

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. (BNEI) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher which releases video and audio products upon intellectual property rights. Its products are manufactured worldwide through representative offices in North America, Europe, Asia (except Japan), and Oceania. The company is ranked fifth in the ranking of App Annie.

Bandai Namco was established in 2006 as a result of the merger between the video game departments of Namco and Bandai. BNEI is based in Tokyo. Around 1,000 employees work in the company.

Supercell

Supercell, a Finnish mobile game development company, is ranked fourth on the list. Supercell was founded in 2010 by Ilkka Paananen and Mikko Kodisoeya, who previously worked in the mobile gaming company Sumea. The developer’s headquarters are in Helsinki. The company employs about 320 people.

The freemium games Clash of Clans, Hay Day, and Boom Beach have proven to be incredibly popular. Launched in 2018, the well-known Brawl Stars combines the gameplay of Battle Buddies with Clash Royale Chests.

Activision Blizzard

The third in this ranking is Activision Blizzard, an American company founded in 2008 as a result of the merger between Vivendi Games and Activision.

Nowadays, it is one of the largest companies in the field of computer games and entertainment. Its health tracker apps have proven to be extremely popular products.

Activision Blizzard includes five business units. The company's main office is based in Santa Monica, California. According to the latest data, the company employs more than 9,200 people.

NetEase

NetEase, a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications, and commerce, is ranked second on the list. It was founded by the Lebunto company in 1998. Back at that time, NetEase was a key player in the development of Internet services in China. Currently, the company employs more than 18,000 people.

NetEase is developing and managing several online and mobile games, advertising services, email services, and e-commerce platforms. The search engine technology and multiplayer online games are the central, if not the main, activity areas of the company.

Tencent

Tencent, a Chinese investment holding company founded in 1998 in Shenzhen and registered in the Canary Islands, tops the list of the most successful app developers. According to the latest data, the company employs about 63,000 people.

Tencent's popular services in China include social networks and instant messengers (Qzone, Tencent QQ, WeChat), music and web portals, e-commerce tools, payment systems, mobile and online games, and cloud databases.