XD Network, the parent company of mobile game community TapTap, has released its financial results for 2021. TapTap saw its monthly active users (MAU) for the domestic version increase by 22.8% year-on-year to 31.57 million.
Besides the MAU, the game downloads on the domestic version of TapTap were 579.4 million times, up 42.1% year on year. The corresponding data for the international performance was 12.24 million for MAUs, marking an increase of 154.3%.
TapTap’s information service revenue, which refers to the advertisement business, reached 692 million CNY (~108.88 million USD), marking an increase of 34.3% year-over-year. This growth was because TapTap upgraded its products and technologies and improved the efficiency of game distribution and advertising systems, according to XD Network’s financial report.
However, XD Network’s overall revenue for the full year of 2021 decreased by 5.1% year-on-year to 2.703 billion CNY.