It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report gives an overview of the effects when an application is featured in the Apple App Store for iPhone, Apple App Store for iPad and Google Android Market. Moreover, this report shows the effects that occur when applications are put on sale. We conclude with [...]
The GSMA today announced nominees for the 17th annual Global Mobile Awards. The winners will be presented on Tuesday, 28th February at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. In total, 158 nominees have been shortlisted for this year’s Global Mobile Awards; the full list of nominees and awards categories can be found here. Market data for the [...]
The age rating systems are a major issue in some countries for applications stores. No global or united age rating system is established yet among the major application stores, despite attempts by the CTIA Wireless. Therefore, we wondered whether similar apps have different age ratings across the two largest application stores: Apple App Store for [...]
Distimo Monitor‘s latest release further increases insight in the performance of your mobile ads by using the same fully customizable interactive charts that you’ve used to monitor the performance of your apps. Use the Smart Filters to get granular information on performance per ad, ad network and country over a given timespan. Get insight in [...]
Yesterday I noticed something strange in my own behavior to get an app on the desktop. I wanted to download a video app for the Mac, went into Google, searched, and downloaded one. After firing up the app, I started to wonder what comparable stuff would be in the Mac App Store. Then it occurred to me that I [...]
BlackBerry DevCon is coming to Europe on February 7-8 2012. Distimo has 50% discount tickets available for Monitor users, which will give you access to the conference, and moreover, Research In Motion will be providing a FREE BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to attendees. Message from Research In Motion below: Great, limited time offer for Distimo Monitor [...]
Together with our full year 2011 publication, Distimo proudly presents a more in-depth study of the past year in 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 €699,-, with combinations of reports being discounted [...]
Google Android Market gave itself a nice new year’s present last weekend. The total number of active applications worldwide in the Android Market reached the 400,000 milestone. Android Market has topped the 200K and 300K available apps milestones in April and August 2011 respectively. The main contributors to reach this milestone are free applications. Roughly, [...]