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 [...]
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 [...]
A few days ago a report was released noting that free applications account for over 89% of all downloads in the various app stores. At Distimo we frequently give our take on similar numbers and although 89% seems a very high figure we are having doubts that it might be even higher. So let’s have [...]
Today we announced the global launch of Distimo AppLink, a new, easy-to-use, cross-platform app distribution service that provides developers with a one-stop shop for detailed insight into their app distribution analytics and their app sales funnel. Developers who use Distimo AppLink can create and communicate one single short URL for apps that are available on [...]
Last Friday, Distimo was pleased to be speaking at the Festival Of Games in Utrecht. At this event, we gave a presentation titled: “The Appstore Opportunity” . The presentation was aimed at Games developers and covers trends in monetization, changing impact of countries and stores. Moreover, more information about the top rankings is given and finally [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report offers an extensive analysis about two important stores for the Android platform: the Google Android Market and the Amazon Appstore. This report dives into the number of apps and the growth in available applications in the store. We also analyze differences in pricing and [...]
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 [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report focuses on brands (as defined by the Interbrand 2011 Best Global Brands report) and how they perceive the fragmented app store space. The major findings from this report are: Brands have realized that publishing applications in the various app stores offers a viable channel to [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This month’s publication focuses on the global differences in mobile app stores including content localization (local apps that are only published in one country) and differentiated user preferences around the world. In this publication, the importance of localized content will be analyzed across the major mobile [...]
Last week, free application store GetJar announced to introduce a “Gold” service for Google Android devices. This new service enables consumers to download premium applications such as Age of Zombies, Tuneln Radio Pro, Solo and Splashtop Remote Desktop for free. Consumers can choose from 50 free top applications at launch of GetJar’s Gold edition. Moreover, [...]