Global Mobile Internet Conference Presentation Slides

Posted on by Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn

Earlier this month Distimo was at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijng, China. The topic of Richard Pidgeon’s presentation was “Measuring Success of International Apps in China; Learning From Daily Transactional App”, about international apps in the Chinese App market. Richard based his presentation on data from AppIQ.

The presentation is now available via Slideshare. If you have any questions or feedback regarding the presentation, please let us know.

 

Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn

Distimo Goes Global With 4 New Offices

Posted on by Vincent Hoogsteder

New York office

Nikole Kiralis
VP Business Development – Financial Services
nikole@distimo.com

Nikole is responsible for leading Distimo’s global business development efforts within the financial services sector. She has nearly 15 years experience working in the financial services and analytics sector, and gained the bulk of her experience at Datamonitor, Celent and Forrester Research.

San Francisco office

Leslie Moniz
Director Business Development – US West Coast
leslie@distimo.com

Leslie has a successful history of sales within the mobile sector, and oversees all West Coast U.S. sales and business development initiatives. She previously held roles as West Coast Performance Sales Manager at Jumptap and Sales Manager at InMobi, where she was responsible for building core business relationships.

London office

Richard Pidgeon
Director Business Development – EMEA
richard@distimo.com

Richard is responsible for leading business development efforts in the EMEA region. He previously spent over 15 years working in the mobile ecosystem and gained the majority of his experience at Vodafone and Nokia.

Singapore office

Nicole Leong
Business Development Partner – Asia
nicole@accelerasia.com

Nicole has 6 years experience working in the eCommerce sector both in London and New York. She started out in Barclays Capital on the graduate program where she rotated onto various parts of the bank and then moved on to TIM Group as a client account manager.

Our partner in Japan

Did you know about our partner in Japan, interarrows? We have been working with interarrows for over a year, they are our local contact in Japan for companies interested in AppIQ. Contact them for local enquiries through: takahashi@interarrows.com.

Read the full press release here.

Vincent Hoogsteder

Now Available: Top Publishers

Posted on by Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn

The Distimo Leaderboards of App Analytics and AppIQ now not only show Top Apps, but also Top Publishers. Just like the Top Apps Leaderboard, the Top Publishers are categorized by free, paid and grossing. Needless to say, the publishers of the Top 10 Apps are not necessarily ranked as the Top 10 Publishers.

AppIQ users can also see the estimated downloads and revenues per publisher. Per store publisher rankings are based on respectively number of free downloads, number of paid downloads or total revenue. Get an insight in who the real competitors are: use the Top Publishers tab in your leaderboard!

Top Apps versus Top Publishers

To see the differences, let us take a closer look at the top 10 free applications in the U.S. for April 2013 and the top 10 publishers of free applications.

TOP APPS

If you look at the top free applications in the category Top overall in the U.S. for April, you’ll find that the publishers of the top 10 applications are: Vine Labs, Inc.(1) – King.com Limited(2) – SEGA(3) – Snapchat, Inc.(4) – Warner Bros.(5) – Google, Inc.(6) – Google, Inc.(7) – Ninjafish Studios(8) – Anton Vashinsky(9) – Burbn, Inc.(10).

TOP PUBLISHERS

If you look at the top free publishers in the category Top Overall in the U.S. for April, you’ll find that the top 10 publishers are: Google, Inc.(1) – Ninjafish Studios(2) – Apple(3) – Vine Labs, Inc.(4) – King.com Limited(5) – Zynga Inc.(6) – SEGA(7) – Snapchat, Inc.(8) – Gameloft(9) – Disney(10).

Although Apple, Zynga, Gameloft and Disney are not shown in the Top 10 free Apps, they belong to the 10 most important players in the apps market. And, on the other hand, Warner Bros, Anton Vashinsky and Burbn, Inc. published the best performing free applications, but they cannot compete in the Top 10 publishers of free apps.

In April Google is a steady number one publisher, although the Google top applications Youtube and Google Maps both dropped three ranks to respectively 6 and 7. AppIQ users can also see that both applications were responsible for 1,8 million downloads, which together form half of the total downloads of the Google applications (7,2 million downloads). Google, Inc. is followed by Ninjafish Studios, who made a huge leap from rank 73 in March to rank 2 in April. Obviously the application Dentist Office (ranked 8 in Top Apps) is the main contributor to this jump. Ninjafish Studios gained a total revenue of over $ 200.000, with 4,6 million downloads. As you can see the Top Publisher leaderboards help to look at the appmarket at a higher level.

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Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn

Top Global Apps – April 2013

Posted on by Anne Hezemans

Based on the full month and worldwide data, you can now view the most downloaded free, paid and top grossing global apps on April 2013. Our leaderboards are a great resource for anyone interested in mobile apps globally. These leaderboards list the most popular free, paid and grossing applications daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly per country and per category for the Apple App Store for iPhone, the Apple App Store for iPad and Google Play. Combining the monthly leaderboards across all countries and enriching with Distimo AppIQ data allows us to analyze the most successful apps worldwide.

Top Free Applications

The most downloaded free application worldwide in Google Play as well as in Apple App Store was the same as last month. So Candy Crush Saga was again the most downloaded app globally in the Apple App Store, while Facebook was again the most popular application in Google Play in April 2013. The top 5 free downloaded applications for Apple App Store has three new entries: Sonic Dash (2), Injustice: Gods Among Us (4) and Dentist Office (5). Remarkably Sonic Dash was a top paid app last month and now it is a top free app, as it became a free application with in-apps in the final days of March 2013. The other two entries are newcomers, both were released in April 2013.

The top 5 free downloaded applications for Google Play showed one new name. Instagram joined the top free most downloaded global applications in Google Play in April 2013, replacing Temple Run 2 on rank 5. Google Play’s top 5 contains only communication/social networking apps and no games. On the contrary, four out of five apps in the top 5 free applications for Apple App Store were games: Candy Crush Saga (1), Sonic Dash (2) , Injustice: Gods Among Us (4) and Dentist Office (5).


Top Paid Applications

Like in March 2013 four out of five applications were games in Apple’s top 5, based on most paid downloads. Temple Run: Oz was the game that was downloaded most frequently across all countries in this store. Again, WhatsApp Messenger defeated all games and was the most downloaded paid application during April 2013. However there are also some changes as Cut the Rope: Time Travel (4) and Pou (5) are new entries in the top most downloaded paid applications. Zeptolab UK Limited has another a winner on their hands as Cut the Rope: Time Travel was just released mid April.

In Google Play there is a stable top 5, the same apps in almost the same order are listed as in March 2013. The only change is a switch between Minecraft (now 3, in March 4) and Poweramp Full Version Unlocker (now 4, in March 3). With SwiftKey Keyboard as leader, paid utility applications were more popular than games in Google Play. Only Minecraft made it as game in the top 5 in terms of paid downloads in Google Play.

 

Most Revenue Generating Applications

Supercell was still one of the most successful developers in the Apple App Store in April 2013. With only two apps in this store, Clash of Clans (1) and Hay Day (3), and both in the top global top 5, players are still enjoying Supercell’s games. Another stayer in the top is Candy Crush Saga. The two new names in the top are Injustice: Gods Among Us from Warner Bros. (4) and Modern War of Funzio, Inc. (5). The top is dominated by free apps with in-apps as all apps in this top 5 use the freemium business model.

In April 2013 you still see that the apps in the top 5 based on revenue for Google Play included mainly apps that were localized in Asia and hence generating most revenue from these countries instead of the US. There is an interesting newcomer in the top 5: LINE: Free Calls & Messages. The games that are related to Kakao have generated a lot of revenue in Korea, which resulted in two top five positions in Google Play, 윈드러너 for Kakao (Windrunner) and 다함께 차차차 for Kakao (Everybody Cha Cha Cha!), while LINE: Free Calls & Messages gained its revenue almost solely in Japan.

 

 

All data is available in Distimo AppIQ.

Anne Hezemans

Meet Distimo in US and Asia

Posted on by Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn

Distimo will be attending these conferences in the next three months. This means many opportunities to meet Distimo in US and Asia. Please let us know if you are around to schedule a personal meeting.

Attending Conferences

  • E3 – June 11 – 13, Los Angeles

@ GMIC Beijing

Distimo’s Head of UK Sales, Richard Pidgeon gives a presentation at GMIC, May 8th 2:00 pm. He will discuss the success and challenges of International Apps in China, based on Distimo AppIQ data. Please reach out to Richard to schedule a meeting with you at GMIC.

This year’s theme is Transforming Mobile Internet. The Global Mobile Internet Conference is “the premier event for mobile companies interested in expanding their network and learning market trends in Asia, the United States and markets worldwide.”

@ APPNATION New York City

Distimo’s US Director of Sales, Leslie Moniz, will be attending App Nation NYC. She will be helping the app developer community get a better understanding of what is taking place across the world by providing valuable insights into competitive data analysis. Leslie would be happy to meet with you at or around Appnation New York City.

Appnation returns to New York City on May 21-22 for their 3rd annual Cross-Platform Summit “to explore the burgeoning world of apps across all connected devices.”

Demo

We love to give a real-time demo of AppIQ and our free analytics tool. AppIQ enables you to track daily estimated downloads and revenues for any app in the market. View competing downloads and revenues alongside your own data. Our free analytics tool allows you to analyze the performance of your apps across all major app stores and ad networks. Besides above demo we are also curious to hear your needs and discuss opportunities together!

Please reach out to our Sales team and we will be happy to schedule a meeting on any of the above conferences.

Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn

Webinar Video – App Downloads: Amazon Appstore versus Google Play

Posted on by Anne Hezemans

On Thursday May 2nd, we hosted our Monthly Publication Webinar. The topic of this webinar was ‘App Downloads: Amazon Appstore versus Google Play’, which followed the major findings in the Monthly Publication of April. Because of the launch of AppIQ for the Amazon Appstore, this webinar focuses on daily estimated downloads and one-off revenues for individual apps in Amazon Appstore versus Google Play. We illustrated how you can make these type of analyses yourself using Distimo AppIQ. AppIQ enables you to track estimated downloads and revenues for any application globally, straight from our web interface.

This webinar is available on YouTube and on Slideshare. If you have any questions or feedback regarding the webinar, please let us know.

 

Anne Hezemans

Distimo Instant: Retrieving Your Data Fast

Posted on by Tijmen Ruizendaal

Our flagship products Distimo App Analytics and Distimo AppIQ have become fast, amazingly fast. The new swiftness even surprised our developers themselves. However, App Analytics is actually doing the same stuff, more rapidly!

Distimo Instant

Distimo App Analytics

Distimo App Analytics allows developers to track their daily download and revenue figures from all app stores in one convenient place. View application rankings in all countries, and benchmark your applications versus your competition. Sign up is easy and free, and there’s no code-insert required.

Use our app analytics to analyze the performance of your apps across all major app stores and ad networks. Track downloads, revenues, rankings, reviews, ratings, and keep an eye on the competition. Get a quick birds-eye view on a daily basis using the fully customizable dashboard, or slice-and-dice the data to detailed levels and compare performance across apps, stores or countries.

So if you are viewing download figures of your own apps, rankings of your competitors or revenue estimations of any app in the market, changing your filter selection will immediately update your charts, maps, funnels and tables in the blink of an eye.

Windows Phone 8 Daily Ranks

Distimo AppIQ

Distimo AppIQ: track daily downloads and revenues of any app.

Download estimates are available for any app, enabling you to analyze your market share and compare your downloads to your competitors’ in one chart. Events such as price changes, featured listings and updates are also included, allowing you to analyze the influence of each event on downloads.

Aside from downloads, revenue estimations are also available, enabling you to analyze revenues for any competitor by country. Track where your competitors’ revenue comes from every day – by country, product and business model.

The Leaderboard allows you to individually analyze the top apps in every category, country and store aggregated by day, month, week or quarter. Daily download and revenue estimates are included for every app, allowing you to analyze the market you are competing in, and plan your marketing campaigns more efficiently.

 

Weekly Leaderboards

Example of Leaderboard

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Tijmen Ruizendaal

Publication: App Downloads Amazon Appstore versus Google Play

Posted on by Anne Hezemans

Amazon recently announced that it intends to expand the Amazon Appstore to almost 200 countries in the near future. In the meanwhile Distimo plans to add AppIQ support for the Amazon Appstore in terms of daily estimated downloads and one-off revenues. These two events were the reasons for Distimo to focus on the Amazon Appstore and its download volumes. This publication includes the estimated download volumes and revenues for the top apps and top publishers in this store. Moreover, this publication studies the differences and similarities between the Amazon Appstore and Google Play.

Top Applications in Amazon Appstore

With AppIQ, we estimate the number of daily free and paid downloads for the Amazon Appstore. Based on these daily estimates the top 200 free applications had  in March 2013 sixteen million downloads.

The top 10 free applications in the Amazon Appstore in the U.S. are shown below for March 2013. The most downloaded free application was Temple Run 2 by Imangi Studios, LLC, followed by Word4Pics: 4 Pics 1 Word by BrainVM Games and Subway Surfers (Kindle Tablet Edition) by Kiloo.

 

When comparing the number of device installs/downloads of the Amazon Appstore with Google Play, the number of downloads for free applications in Google Play is much higher than in the Amazon Appstore. Roughly speaking Google Play is more than ten times bigger than the Amazon Appstore.
The number of downloads of some applications vary heavily among the two appstores. To illustrate, here are three examples: Fruit Ninja Free by Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd was downloaded 9.1 times less in Amazon Appstore than in Google Play. Jetpack Joyride by Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd is performing relatively well in the Amazon Appstore as it was downloaded just 3.8 times less than in Google Play. The third example Jewels Stars of iTreeGamer though was downloaded 8.4 times more in Google Play than in the Amazon Appstore.

Paid Applications in Amazon Appstore

The number of paid device downloads in Google Play is overall two times the number of paid downloads in the Amazon Appstore. Despite this gap, some applications had higher paid download volumes in Amazon Appstore compared to Google Play, for example Monkey Preschool Lunchbox by THUP Games. This application was downloaded 5.7k times in the Amazon Appstore and 5.0k times in Google Play.

Top Publishers in Amazon Appstore

The publication also looks into the top publishers. These types of leaderboards are now also available on AppIQ for Google Play and the Apple App Store. Per store publisher rankings are based on respectively number of free downloads, number of paid downloads or total revenue.

The table below contains the top publishers based on downloads of free applications in the Amazon Appstore. Rovio Entertainment Ltd. was the top publisher in the Amazon Appstore in March 2013. Its most popular application in March was The Croods, which is also ranked among the top 10 free apps. The top three publishers have not changed in the last month. New entries in the Top 10 are TabTale LTD, Electronic Arts, Inc. and BrainVM Games.

Download the full Publication

In the publication you will find much more detailed information about the Amazon Appstore and its downloads and one-fee revenues. Please download the full publication here.
The press kit including all image files is also available.

 


Anne Hezemans

Newzoo and Distimo Extend Partnership

Posted on by Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn

Games market research firm Newzoo and Distimo announced the extension and expansion of their partnership.  Newzoo will publish new rankings featuring the top 20 best performing countries in terms of mobile game revenues. The monthly rankings will cover iPhone, iPad and PlayStore stores. The Mobile Games Data Report is a new joint publication combining overall games market trends, consumer insights and app store data.

iOS and PlayStore Country Rankings for March 2013

The top countries per store confirm the global reach of both iOS and Google Play games across smartphones and tablets. This is illustrated by a mix of Western and Asian countries within the top 20 as well as the remarkable performance of certain growth markets such as Russia, Brazil and Thailand.

Several key take-aways based on the March rankings are:

  • Korea tops the charts for PlayStore, ahead of Japan. US is still number one for iOS.
  • Russia spent almost 20% more on iPad games than Germany and ranks #6 in the world.
  • China has surpassed UK in iOS spending based on the revenues of the top 200 grossing games.
  • Australia ranks relatively high in all stores ranging from position 4 to 6.

In 35 of the top performing 44 countries, a SuperCell game takes the number one position. Candy Crush Saga tops the charts in 10 out of the top 20 countries when it comes to Google PlayStore revenues. Puzzle & Dragons tops all of the Japanese charts. The Mobile Games Data Report features the top 5 games in the US and key EU countries and their monthly revenues and download estimates.

Third year of Newzoo – Distimo partnership

Distimo and Newzoo started servicing clients with a combination of app analytics and broader market data in 2010. Large game companies make use of a combination of a combined AppIQ and Newzoo Data Explorer subscription. To meet the needs of small to medium sized developers, Distimo and Newzoo now offer more free rankings and the Mobile Games Data Report, priced at $990 or €749.

Vincent Hoogsteder, CEO at Distimo comments on the partnership: “Newzoo has been working with us and our data for two years now and knows this inside-out. We believe the strength of this partnership is combining Newzoo’s expertise in the global games market with our data to put our store data into a broader perspective for leading game companies that use our AppIQ data.”

Peter Warman, CEO at Newzoo, adds: “Distimo’s unique tech and methodology provides us and our clients with the most accurate and complete data on app stores available. The new AppIQ dashboard now also makes it the most actionable app data on the planet, where others still rely on huge Excel files with no trending insights. Mixing this data with our own research across all business models, screens and continents is where we see the biggest value added. ”

Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn

App Promo Starts Annual App Developers Survey

Posted on by Tiuri van Agten

App strategy and marketing firm App Promo has launched their second Annual App Developers Survey. Last year, App Promo found that nearly 60% of app developers were not generating enough revenue to break even with development of their apps. This year App Promo wants to see how developers promote and monetize their apps.

If you are a developer and interested to have your say, start the survey here. Complete this Developer Survey and Win $1,500 in App Store Marketing Services. The results will be available in the week of May 21 as a free downloadable report.

Tiuri van Agten