We have already heard this morning the main findings of App Annie’s retrospective look back of 2014. For those that missed our earlier report, fifa coins the overall findings suggest sub-industries such as the ‘sharing economy’, messaging and ‘super casual games’ saw the biggest growth in 2014 and are likely to continue in 2015. Those were the overall main headlines, but to look in to what actually did well, individually, we have to delve into the rankings. These rankings consist of overall scores across both the android (Google Play) and iOS (Apple).

In terms of worldwide ranks, we see some a lot of familiar faces making the top 10’s in 2014. In terms of games, the number one downloaded game was Candy Crush Saga. This was followed by Subway Surfaces, My Talking Tom, Farm Heroes Saga (same makers as Candy Crush) and one of the new entries, Clash Of Clans. You will notice a lot of these titles revolve around the same type of game content, clearly indicating the popularity of these sorts of games, over the last twelve months. Likewise, the top non-game Apps of 2014, followed a similar homogenous pattern.

In at number one was Facebook Messenger. Probably not surprising this made the number one spot in terms of downloads, as this was only released in 2014 and instantly had Facebook’s entire userbase to hit the download button. Following on from Facebook Messenger though, was actually Facebook. This was then further followed on by WhatsApp Messenger (starting to notice a trend?). http://www.utfifas.co/ Coming in fourth and fifth place was Instagram and Skype respectively. So there can be no doubt that in the non-game sphere, social media apps were the biggest apps by download.