Pixalate’s May 2025 Top Grossing Mobile and CTV Apps in North America: ‘PocketFM’ Ranked No. 1 on Google Play Store in Canada; ‘Hulu’ No. 1 Across Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, & Apple TV in the US

According to Pixalate's research, the app ‘Happy Color’ in Canada generated an estimated $295K in open programmatic ad revenue on the Apple App Store; Hulu led on Apple TV with $106K in estimated open programmatic ad revenue in Canada

London, June 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pixalate, the leading global platform for ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics, today released the May 2025 North America Top Grossing Apps Reports for the United States and Canada. The reports cover mobile apps from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as Connected TV (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 CTV apps. In addition to the reports for the United States (U.S.) and Canada, Pixalate has released Top Grossing Mobile & CTV Apps reports for Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), Spain, France, Germany, Israel, Ukraine, and the Netherlands.

Top Grossing Mobile and CTV Apps in May 2025 - North America

U.S:

• ‘Mobile: Weather - The Weather Channel’ led ($5M estimated open programmatic ad revenue) on the Apple App Store, and ‘PocketFM’ ($7M estimated open programmatic ad revenue) is No. 1 on the Google Play Store
• CTV: Hulu led on all four CTV platforms: ‘Roku’ ($82M estimated open programmatic ad revenue), Apple TV ($29M), ‘Amazon Fire TV’ ($39M estimated open programmatic revenue), and ‘Samsung Smart TV’ ($21M estimated open programmatic ad revenue)
  

Canada

• Mobile: ‘Happy Color by Numbers Game’ ($295K estimated open programmatic ad revenue) led on the Apple App Store, and ‘PocketFM’ was No. 1 on the Google Play Store ($99K)
• CTV: 'NOMADlife.tv' was No. 1 on Roku ($100K) in estimated open programmatic revenue, ‘Hulu’ led on Apple TV ($106K), ‘Bloomberg’ was No. 1 on Amazon Fire TV ($84K), and ‘Samsung TV PLUS’ led on Samsung Smart TV ($19K)

In May 2025, Pixalate's data science team analyzed over 27 billion global open programmatic impressions from over 6 million Apple App Store and Google Play Store apps. For this research, Pixalate also examined over 6,000 CTV apps and 2 billion global ad impressions across various platforms, including Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Samsung Smart TV.

Download the Global Top Grossing Mobile & CTV Apps Reports:

Mobile

• U.S.
• Canada
• Mexico
• Brazil
• China
• Japan
• Singapore
• India
• Australia
• United Kingdom
• Spain
• France
• Germany
• Israel
• Ukraine
• Netherlands

CTV

• United States
• Canada
• Mexico
  
  

About Pixalate

Pixalate is a global platform specializing in privacy compliance, ad fraud prevention, and digital ad supply chain data intelligence. Founded in 2012, Pixalate is trusted by regulators, data researchers, advertisers, publishers, ad tech platforms, and financial analysts across the Connected TV (CTV), mobile app, and website ecosystems. Pixalate is accredited by the MRC for the detection and filtration of Sophisticated Invalid Traffic (SIVT). pixalate.com

Disclaimer

The content of this press release, and the May 2025 North America Top Grossing Mobile Apps Reports (the “Reports”), reflect Pixalate's opinions with respect to factors that Pixalate believes can be useful to the digital media industry. Any data shared is grounded in Pixalate’s proprietary technology and analytics, which Pixalate is continuously evaluating and updating. Any references to outside sources should not be construed as endorsements. 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.

Nina Talcott
ntalcott@pixalate.com

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