With 20% of its users watching on mobile devices, TV streaming service Crunchyroll sees its mobile business soar

What apps do consumers spend the most time with? The obvious choices are games, utilities and productivity tools, but according to San Francisco-based Crunchyroll, it may be time to add streaming TV to that list.

The video-on-demand service, which allows consumers to stream popular Asian TV dramas and animated shows to a variety of platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone and the Kindle Fire, is seeing its mobile usage soar. According to CEO and founder Kun Gao, while mainstream video streaming services like Hulu and Netflix report about two to three percent of their userbase streaming content to their mobile devices, Crunchyroll sees 10 times the amount of mobile usage.

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