How much does CTV News make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, CTV News earns approximately $5.0K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.

Is CTV News profitable?

With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $5.0K, CTV News looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does CTV News have?

Estimated audience: ~1.8M lifetime downloads, ~95K monthly active users, and ~42K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.

What apps are like CTV News?

Browse the full News & Magazines category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.

What is CTV News built with?

Our heuristic places CTV News on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.

Is CTV News still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would CTV News sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $75K – $100K). Calculated as 17× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.

When was CTV News last updated?

CTV News last shipped a new version on 2026-06-03 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

CTV News is published by Bell Media Inc. on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.

What is CTV News's BU Score?

CTV News has a BU Score of 68/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

CTV News: Canada, Local, World

Quality Score

Solid

CTV News: Canada, Local, World

Name: CTV News: Canada, Local, World — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: CTV News: Canada, Local, World revenue, CTV News: Canada, Local, World app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, News & Magazines revenue, Android app revenue

by Bell Media Inc.

High confidence

4.1 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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CTV News: Canada, Local, World is an Android app from Bell Media Inc. in the News & Magazines category, currently rated 4.1★ across 21,742 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a News & Magazines app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$5.0K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$5.2K – $10.8K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$6.4K – $19.2K

per month

MID tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

5 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.1

Reviews

21,742 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.0K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$170K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $130K – $230K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~2.8y at current MRR

Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.

Where the money goes

🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship)	+$28K
📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K	+$22K
⚙ News & Magazines complexity ×1.20	+$10K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$33K
⚙ 12.8y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$76K

Total estimate $170K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$75K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75K – $100K · 17× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.4× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.

How the multiple was built

📺 Ad-supported base	15× MRR
📅 12.8y proven track record	+20%
🏷 News & Magazines category multiple	-5%

Final multiple 17× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

1.8M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

95K

Daily active

42K

Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.

How we sized it

📲 News & Magazines engagement	~120 installs / rating
📅 12.8y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 News & Magazines D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.45

DAU / MAU 45% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🤖

Native Android (Kotlin)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Flutter

Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.

Signals we read

🏷 Category context	News & Magazines
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Slowing

30%

Last shipped 2026-06-03 · 116 days ago

0 · Active 50 · At risk 100 · Abandoned

Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.

Risk signals

📅 3 months since last update

Slowing cadence

Verdict Slowing

🔬

How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$4.7K – $7.9K

12 months

$5.2K – $10.8K

24 months

$6.4K – $19.2K

Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.5

Product Quality

8.2

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.12★ across 21,742 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.

🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.

Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.

Range:

💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL

Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.

🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 6 of 6 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Mid install base (21,742 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
securityREVIEW		+$1,800
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
Good rating (4.1★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: CTV News: Canada, Local, World
Developer: Bell Media Inc.
Bundle ID: ca.bellmedia.ctvnews
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: News & Magazines
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: ctvnews.ca
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $5.0K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Founder data not yet collected for this app.

Funding

Funding data not yet collected for this app.

Press & Links

Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.

Contacts & Socials

Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.

🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked

Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.

📝 About this app

Discover the new and improved CTV News app!

Whether you're interested in local Canadian news, national stories, or global updates, find it all in one app. Our team of journalists across Canada and around the world bring you the latest and most reliable news.

Why Choose CTV News?

Access for FREE:

1.  Personalized Canadian & World News – Whether it’s local news from cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, or Ottawa, or global updates on politics, business, health, and more, follow the stories you care about.

2.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v11.1.0🔄 updated 3mo ago📂 News & Magazines💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2013 (12y old)

📅

What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

3 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →

2026-07

📸

Replaced 1 store screenshot

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v11.0.1 → v11.1.0

→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence

2026-05

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence

📸

Store Page History

1 SCREENSHOT CHANGE

Every time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.

iPhone screenshots

Slot 6
2 ver.

2026-05-10

Now

2026-07-13

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Tech & Domain Intel — ctvnews.ca

Tech stack: Google Workspace

Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for CTV News: Canada, Local, World: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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