Google is trying to cut down on annoying, unskippable ads in Android apps and overall bad behavior in the Play Store (via TechCrunch). The company announced wide-ranging policy changes on ...

Advertising in app stores is the norm, but Google is now testing surfacing apps directly in Play Store search. Update 11/14: Google tells us this is an “organic discovery feature” and apps ...

To raise awareness about what the Play Store does, Google is launching a safety-focused advertising campaign about how you should “download apps not traps.” The one below is pretty short at 36 ...

Google Play Store purged nearly half its apps in the past year to enhance the platform. Android users are unlikely to complain about the removal of low-quality apps.

Google removed over 180 fake apps from the Play Store linked to a massive ad fraud scheme, affecting users, advertisers, and developers.

Not all apps are created equal. For every incredible, must-have app on the Play Store, there are dozens of low-effort, ad-ridden, useless options as well. There's a lot you can do yourself to try ...

The Q1 2025 reports analyze the estimated market share of third-party ad software development kits (SDKs) used across apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

The Google Play Store is hoping to clear its platform of bogus apps. Google is instituting some much-needed changes to the Play store, raising the standard of what apps can live in the App Store ...

The report reveals new findings on the number of Google Play Store hosted mobile apps enabled for open programmatic advertising (i.e., apps with an app-ads.txt file) but have no detected privacy ...

The Anatsa banking trojan has sneaked into Google Play once more via an app posing as a PDF viewer that counted more than ...

TikTok remains downloadable on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, despite US laws targeting the Chinese-owned app ...