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Video Daily: iPhone app developer Tapulous approaching $1 million revenue per month

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 20 Dec 2009 2:43 User comments (1)

Video Daily: iPhone app developer Tapulous approaching $1 million revenue per month The tiny iPhone/iPod Touch developer Tapulous has noted that they are approaching $1 million in revenue per month, an extremely high number for the company which has 20 employees and only makes one type of game, the popular Tap Tap Revenge 3 and its variants.
Tapulous says its series of games have been installed on 20 million iPods and iPhones, and 600 million songs have been played. ComScore says the game is installed on a full 35 percent of all Apple app user's phones or devices.

Even more importantly, the company is now profitable, joining a select few of app developers such as Zynga and PlayFish to make it big and remain profitable.

"It's going to be big and all of a sudden people are going to say, 'holy cow, where did those guys come from?'" adds CEO Bart Decrem.

Tapulous, which can be compared to a Guitar Hero-esque music rhythm game, makes money by charging for special Tap Tap games (such as a Lady Gaga or Dave Mathews Band version), through ad sales, and by selling individual tracks for the game.



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