If you are a frequent visitor, you know that this blog is our standard outlet to report lastest findings on the apps market. We try to dig into our data and extract the most relevant trends at any given time, communicated either via our monthly publications or as blog posts. Since we are a numbers [...]
The download volume of apps in the Apple App Store (United States) saw a dramatic increase this Christmas weekend. The download volume on Christmas Day increased by 230% compared to December’s daily average. On the 26th of December this was a 120% increase. These calculations are based on transactional data gathered via Distimo Monitor, which represents [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report will give an overview of the most important developments in the mobile app stores in 2011. How did the store sizes develop over the last year? Which store generates most revenue nowadays? What are the most downloaded apps of 2011? These questions will be [...]
Interview with Christopher Forsythe, CEO at The Growl Project Since the release of the Apple Mac App Store in January 2011, the store’s top charts have mainly been dominated by Apple’s own apps, such as Pages and Mac OS X Lion. This hegemony ended in October, with the introduction of Growl in the Mac Store. [...]
We noticed that many developers turn to Quora to validate mobile business plans, estimate market sizes or plan promotions more efficiently. At Distimo we gather a lot of data that is relevant to those developers. Therefore we decided to start tracking Quora and answer those questions for which we have data that we can share. [...]
Last Friday Apple released its App Store Rewind for 2011, where the most downloaded content of this year is highlighted. Next to music, movies and TV shows, Rewind 2011 covers Apple App Store for iPhone, Apple App Store for iPad and Mac App Store. Some noteworthy findings It’s interesting to see that 77 of the 100 apps in [...]
Together with our monthly publications, Distimo proudly presents each month three Paid Featured Reports. These reports offer deep insights into all major applications stores in North America, Europe and Asia. A single report can be purchased for the entry-level price of €399,-, with combinations of reports being discounted up to 20%. Each Featured Report provide [...]