Social Game Developer Tops AllFacebook and AppData Charts
San Francisco – April 21, 2009 – Zynga (www.zynga.com), the world’s leading developer of fun and social games, announced today that it is now the top application developer on Facebook according to AllFacebook and AppData. Zynga is the leader with 40,335,309 monthly active users on AllFacebook and 40,009,796 monthly active users on AppData followed by RockYou with 39,714,907 users on both sites. AllFacebook’s current ranking can be viewed at http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-application-statistics/developer-leaderboard/. AppData’s current ranking can be viewed at http://www.appdata.com.
Zynga continues to extend its leadership position as the #1 Facebook app developer and the #1 social game developer across all platforms. Zynga develops social games for a variety of platforms including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Tagged and most recently the iPhone. With recent successes on the iPhone such as “Mafia Wars” and “Scramble,” Zynga is showing its ability to bring its games to new audiences.
“Our mission is to make the most fun and social games on the planet, and it’s great to see that the numbers are with us,” said Mark Pincus, CEO, Zynga. “We couldn’t be more excited about the progress that we’ve made along with Facebook and our other platform partners.”
About Zynga
Zynga is the largest social gaming company with 9.5 million daily users and 45 million monthly users. Zynga’s games are available on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, Tagged, Yahoo! and the iPhone, and include Texas Hold’Em Poker, Mafia Wars, YoVille, Vampires, Street Racing, Scramble and Word Twist. The company is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, IVP, Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, Avalon Ventures, Pilot Group, Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel. Zynga is headquartered at the Chip Factory in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.zynga.com.
Zynga Public Relations