Every year in the weeks leading up to Christmas developers and publishers make plans to make the most out of the Christmas opportunity. Last year, we reported that downloads tripled on Christmas Day compared to the December 2011 average. A lot of iPhones and iPads were also sold as Christmas presents for 2012 and all [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report will give an overview of the most important developments in the Apple App Store and Google Play in 2012. How did the stores develop over the last year? Which store generates most revenue nowadays? What are the most downloaded apps and what are the [...]
A month ago we made some big improvements to our AppLink conversion tracking, which provides a great way to analyze user’s conversion rates from app discovery to install, from which channels they are coming and what devices they use. In this post we’ll delve into the various concepts and tools available to you through Distimo [...]
A month ago we introduced you to our App Leaderboards, supporting ten stores and enabling you to view the daily top 400 highest ranked apps, broken down by store, country, category and rank type. Some stores have different ranks per device, including Windows Phone Store. Therefore two devices have been added to these leaderboards; Windows [...]
On Monday December 3rd, we hosted our Monthly Publication Webinar. The topic of this webinar was ‘Discover The Windows Store’, which follows the major findings in the Monthly Publication of November. Besides the findings of the Month Report, we demonstrated the daily insight you can get by using our App Analytics. This webinar is available [...]
The potential acquisition of WhatsApp Messenger by Facebook is all over the news right now. At our lunch break we discussed which one of the two messenger apps is more popular; Facebook Messenger or Whatsapp Messenger. We covered the potential threats for Facebook (with among others WhatsApp Messenger) already in our monthly publication of August 2012. However, we [...]