Welltodo Today: Fitness Apps Boom, Another Big Plant-Based Shift, Ergatta Is Generating Huge Sales

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

71,000 new health and fitness apps launched in 2020, estimates App Annie report

Mobile data and analytics provider App Annie has released its State Of Mobile 2021 report, in which the company estimates that more than 71,000 new health and fitness apps were launched in 2020. App Annie reports that this figure was up 13 per cent on 2019, comprising 24,000 apps on iOS and 47,000 on Google Play.

McDonald’s X Beyond Meat Partnership Dubbed ‘Clearest Sign Yet’ That ‘Future Of Meat Is Plant-Based’

Beyond Meat’s global partnership with McDonald’s and Yum! Brands has been dubbed the ‘clearest sign yet that the future of meat will be plant-based’. Food industry expert Bruce Friedrich made the comment in a statement sent to Plant Based News. Friedrich is also the executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI).

Ergatta’s CEO reveals how the connected-fitness startup generated $2.5 million in monthly revenues within a year of launching

Ergatta found a gap in the market by targeting fitness-minded people who don’t like exercise classes. It conducted months of research before launching the product, and raised $5 million in funding. Sales have boomed during the pandemic, but its CEO says the at-home fitness trend is here to stay.

Conspirituality Is On The Rise In The UK’s Yoga Community

When Stewart Robertson, a 58-year-old statistician from Milton Keynes, received a Facebook message from his female yoga teacher* linking to an anti-vaxx propaganda video, he was shocked but perhaps not totally surprised. About 18 months before, she’d sent him a Facebook message containing 5G conspiracy theories.

Hungryroot Hopes To Change the Way We Grocery Shop-For Good

Awareness of our health and well-being kicked into overdrive last year and shows no sign of slowing. In 2021, these wellness innovators will change the way we all (not just a select few) eat, move, think, and care for ourselves and each other. Learn their names… you’ll be hearing much more from them.

The Way We Worked Out

As we listlessly hoist our home dumbbells, let’s take a deep breath and reflect on a lost epicenter of New York City fitness culture. One of The Vertical Club’s aerobics teachers leads a coed class in 1984. Credit… Marilynn K.