We just gave a presentation at Appsterdam lunch lectures in Amsterdam, titled “Market Shifts In Content Distribution”. This gives an update into four major shifts we identified earlier in the current mobile content distribution landscape: Look beyond one-off fess to monetize your app App store content leaders of today are not those of tomorrow Impact of Asian [...]
Last weekend Apple announced the expansion of the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac to 33 new territories. Several new countries in Africa (Tanzania, Ghana), the Middle East (Yemen, Oman) and even Europe (Iceland, Cyprus) were added. In South America most of the new countries were added. Users in, among others, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This publication covers the Apple App Store for iPhone for May 2011. Asian countries become increasingly important in terms of number of downloads (see world map). Therefore, this month we focus on insights in market trends that are relevant for developers who want to grow their [...]
Apple announced that in the newest release of OSX, the Mac App Store will be built in. That means every new or updated Mac will have the Mac App Store, just as every iPhone and iPad has access to the Apple App Store. This will increase the reach of the Mac App Store and is likely to [...]
While analyzing last month’s results we noticed superior growth in the number of available applications in Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (US) again. In April’s Month Report we concluded that if Windows Phone 7 Marketplace could maintain the growth pace showed in the first quarter, the store would be larger than Nokia Ovi Store and BlackBerry [...]
Your application name should be unique as search engines, both in store as on the web, are an important traffic driver. Or you take the opposite approach and take advantage of popular (high traffic) keywords in the app stores. Therefore, here at Distimo, we dove into the data in order to give more insight into [...]
Each month Google discloses the version distribution to inform publishers what the utility of developing for a speicific version could be. In the past months a trend towards a general adoption of Android 2.x could be observed and as of May 2nd, the majority of the devices operate on Android 2.2. 24.5% of the devices [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This publication covers the Apple App Store for iPad, Apple App Store for iPhone, Mac App Store, BlackBerry App World, GetJar, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace in the United States. The major findings are: The Google Android [...]
It is rumored that Apple tweaked its App Store rankings algorithm to factor in more than pure download numbers. In order to see if the reported rank changes of for example Facebook and Skype indeed indicate a change in the ranking algorithm, we performed a small data driven research. When looking at the top 50 [...]
Amazon officially launched its Android App Store, we reported on earlier. At this moment the store has 4,082 applications in the catalog and is only available in the United States, among the publishers are many of the big shots like Rovio and Halfbrick. The pricing structure of the Amazon App Store for Android is particularly [...]
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