The global success that is Angry Birds enjoyed a blockbuster Christmas.
Rovio’s game was downloaded an eye-watering 30m times between December 22nd and December 29th.
On Christmas Day alone the game as purchased 8m times. With Flurry data suggesting that 17.4m new Android and iOS devices – that means there was one Angry Birds download for every other iOS or Android game activated. Impressive.
And here’s all that in an infograph:
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