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Quibi app installations top 300,000 on launch day

SAN FRANCISCO — Launched yesterday, Quibi’s mobile-only video streaming service saw more than 300,000 mobile users in Canada and the United States install the Quibi app on the service’s first day of operation, according to San Francisco-based mobile app analytics company Sensor Tower. The preliminary estimates came from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform. According to Sensor Tower, Quibi’s debut places the service at 7.5% of the approximately 4 million installs seen by Disney+ in the U.S. and Canada when it launched on November 12, 2019. In comparison, HBO Now (not available in Canada), was installed approximately 45,000 times at its...