{"id":17134,"date":"2020-05-29T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2573963"},"modified":"2020-05-29T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T13:25:00","slug":"hbo-max-was-downloaded-by-87k-new-users-yesterday-sensor-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/hbo-max-was-downloaded-by-87k-new-users-yesterday-sensor-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max was downloaded by 87K new users yesterday (Sensor Tower)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/unnamed.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"HBO Max\" width=\"711\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">How did&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/05\/27\/hbo-max-launches-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\">yesterday&rsquo;s launch of HBO Max<\/a>&nbsp;go? We don&rsquo;t have official numbers from WarnerMedia, but app store intelligence firm&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sensortower.com\/\">Sensor Tower<\/a>&nbsp;says HBO Max was downloaded by nearly 87,000 new users across Apple&rsquo;s App Store and Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>That number might seem pretty low compared to other streaming launches &mdash; like the 4 million first-day installs for Disney+, or even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/04\/07\/quibi-gains-300k-launch-day-downloads-hits-no-3-on-app-store\/\">the 300,000 installs for Quibi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But keep in mind that HBO Max isn&rsquo;t an entirely new service, either from a content perspective (it bundles HBO&rsquo;s library with a wide range of other TV shows and movies) or from an app perspective, since it was released as an update for the existing HBO Now streaming app.<\/p>\n<div class=\"piano-inline-promo\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Sensor Tower acknowledged that these numbers do not include people who simply updated their old HBO app, but it offered another way to look at yesterday&rsquo;s performance: Previously, HBO Now was averaging 16,000 new installs every day, so that&rsquo;s 71,000 more downloads than normal.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also worth noting that as I write this on Thursday afternoon, HBO Max is currently No. 2 among &ldquo;free&rdquo; apps in the App Store, behind Zoom but ahead of YouTube, Netflix, TikTok and Disney+.<\/p>\n<p>Sensor Tower estimated that HBO Now and Max have been downloaded by 33 million people since launching in April 2015, compared to 260 million for Netflix, 120 million for Hulu (both Netflix and Hulu were measured starting in January 2014) and 50 million for Disney+.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed breakout\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/05\/27\/hbo-max-launches-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/05\/27\/hbo-max-launches-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed breakout\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/05\/27\/hbo-max-launches-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/05\/27\/hbo-max-launches-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Anthony Ha<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Anthony Ha<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did&nbsp;yesterday&rsquo;s launch of HBO Max&nbsp;go? We don&rsquo;t have official numbers from WarnerMedia, but app store intelligence firm&nbsp;Sensor Tower&nbsp;says HBO Max was downloaded by nearly 87,000 new users across Apple&rsquo;s App Store and Google Play. That number might seem pretty low compared to other streaming launches &mdash; like the 4 million first-day installs for Disney+, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/29\/hbo-max-was-downloaded-by-87k-new-users-yesterday-sensor-tower\/\">Continue reading <span>HBO Max was downloaded by 87K new users yesterday (Sensor Tower)<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/hbo-max-was-downloaded-by-87k-new-users-yesterday-sensor-tower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HBO Max was downloaded by 87K new users yesterday (Sensor Tower) - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/hbo-max-was-downloaded-by-87k-new-users-yesterday-sensor-tower\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HBO Max was downloaded by 87K new users yesterday (Sensor Tower) - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How did&nbsp;yesterday&rsquo;s launch of HBO Max&nbsp;go? 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