Friday, April 26

“Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm” ,  Big 4’s App Performance in 2015 by Deepak Abbot

Following up on my last year’s post on Mobile Commerce, I decided to focus only on Big 4 this time primarily due to lack of time. Here is what I published in Dec 2014:

Mobile Commerce Growth in 2014 – It’s An App World
Let’s take a visual look at how some of the top mobile commerce Apps of India grew in the year 2014, which also points…growthbug.com

The numbers shown below are based on my formula based on publicly available data. Plus I have used all the free sources of data (non-paid) available from popular App store analytics platforms. The charts below are only for Android, which IMO would be 85% of all App traffic.
Flipkart maintained its leadership in 2015:

Flipkart grew 2x:

Returning users:

Month 2 retention seems to be the biggest concern for all:

Number of days a user stays before attriting:

Amazon has the lowest DAU of all (in millions):

Net Install Base as of today (Total minus uninstalls):

Snapdeal scores the lowest in MAU (in millions):

Clearly Paytm leads the pack as it included recharge orders as well:

Big Billion Day saw Flipkart becoming the no.1 overall App in India beating Whatsapp/Facebook:

Snapdeal also gained during the October sale:

Amazon went aggressive with mobile campaign around May resulting in no.1 position overall:

Paytm seems to be focusing less on vanity metric like App Rank: