Alexa Skills in 2018

Still a remarkable number created, but still not enough in quality or being able to integrate them for increased intelligence.  Now a number now being classified as games, additional stats below. Monitization goals and results still unclear after that was enabled.

The number of Alexa skills in the U.S. more than doubled in 2018
Sarah Perez@sarahintampa  in TechCrunch

Amazon  Alexa had a good year as a developer platform – at least in terms of the number of voice apps being built for Alexa, if not yet the monetization of those apps. According to new data published today by Voicebot, the number of Amazon Alexa skills in the U.S. more than doubled over 2018, while the number of skills grew by 233 percent and 152 percent in Alexa’s two other top markets, the U.K. and Germany, respectively.

Amazon began the year with 25,784 Alexa skills in the U.S., which grew to 56,750 skills by the end of 2018, said Voicebot. That represents 120 percent growth, which is down from the 266 percent growth seen the year prior – but still shows continued developer interest in the Alexa platform.

At this rate of growth, that means developers were publishing an average of around 85 skills per day in 2018. ... "