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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Good news for developers! Today, Apple announces to support payments with the Chinese Yuan in the Apple App Store. Chinese citizens are now able to purchase applications in their own currency rather than to pay in USD. Apple’s move can be explained in two ways. First, the download volume of paid content might increase in [...]
This morning, the Korean government lifted the ban on iPhone games. For a long time, no game category existed in the Korean Apple App Store due to concerns from the country’s Game Rating Board. The Game Rating Board desired to rate every game in the Apple App Store because it raised concerns about the possible [...]
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 [...]
Last Monday, Distimo was pleased to be speaking at the first Mobile Monday Athens. At this event, we gave a presentation titled: “Analyzing the application stores – Users, apps, growth, and more.” The presentation covered four major trends in the app store eco system. Among others, a change in content leadership and the changing impact [...]
Since recently, Google added a new rich snippets feature, application reviews. Google already displays reviews for videos, events and music in its search engine. Now, users can view detailed application information in the search results as well. With this new rich snippet, users directly know that this search results contains an applications and includes an [...]
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 [...]
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