Social Gaming Network PapayaMobile Hits 25M Users

Today, PapayaMobile, the social gaming network for Android, is announcing a new milestone: it has topped 25 million users, which represents over 940% growth since the beginning of last year. The company attributes the increase to both the growing demand for mobile social games as well as the rapidly expanding Android install base worldwide.

Papaya also released several other network statistics along with the user milestone figure, including the following:

• More than 11 million paid transactions have occurred using Papaya’s virtual currency.
• ARPPU (average revenue per paying user) on the Papaya network is $22.60/month.
• ARPPU across all Papaya Game Engine games is more than $10.00 per month.
• On average, 1 in 5 users purchase Papaya’s virtual currency in social games that use Papaya’s Game Engine.
• Popular titles earn on average over $20,000/month.
• The most spent by a single user on the Papaya network is $4,440. <– Who is this crazy person?!
• 93 million pMails have been sent to users across the Papaya network.
• Users have engaged in over 874 million game sessions.
• Regionally, the fastest growing market for Papaya is China which has experienced over 500% growth since January 2011. Europe is close behind at 224% and then the United States at 222%.

The company showcased a few of its top-performing applications on the network, too, like Treasure Fever which sees a monthly ARPPU of $10.33, and X-City, whose ARPPU is $9.17.

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