According to Pixalate's research, the app ‘Happy Colors’ in Canada generated an estimated $282K in open programmatic ad revenue on the Apple App Store; Hulu led on Apple TV with $295K in estimated open programmatic ad revenue in Canada
LONDON, May 13, 2025—Pixalate, the global market-leading ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform, today released the April 2025 North America Top Grossing Apps Reports for the United States and Canada. The reports cover mobile apps from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and CTV apps from Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Samsung Smart TV stores.
The reports highlight the estimated top-grossing apps in open programmatic advertising revenue for mobile and Connected TV (CTV). In addition to the reports for the U.S. and Canada, Pixalate has also released Top Grossing Apps Reports for the UK, France, Spain, Germany, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Mexico, and Brazil.
In April 2025, Pixalate's data science team analyzed 25 billion open programmatic impressions from 6 million mobile apps, including delisted apps sourced from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. For this research, they also examined 6,000 CTV apps and 2 billion global ad impressions across platforms such as Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Samsung Smart TV.
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Disclaimer
The content of this press release, and the Top Grossing Mobile and CTV Apps (the “Reports”), reflect Pixalate's opinions with respect to factors that Pixalate believes can be useful to the digital media industry. Pixalate's opinions are just that, opinions, which means that they are neither facts nor guarantees. Pixalate is sharing this data not to impugn the standing or reputation of any entity, person or app, but, instead, to report findings and trends pertaining to programmatic advertising activity across mobile apps in the time period studied.