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 [...]
We have just come back from the Verizon Developer Community Conference in Las Vegas. At the conference we gave a presentation titled: “Pricing for success: app industry trends and best practices.” The presentation covered the latest trends in application pricing and monetization and how developers can best respond to these trends. The three main topics [...]
Distimo Monitor, our free app store analytics tool for app developers, now has some very cool new features aimed at helping developers to monetize and broaden their geographic reach: Press Release This new Monitor release is featured in our official press release and press kit. The press kit also contains the infographic above. Supported Stores Currently, Distimo Monitor supports the [...]
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 [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This publication covers the Apple App Store for iPad, Apple App Store for iPhone, Apple 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 in June 2011. The major findings [...]
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, [...]
We just gave a presentation at Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona, titled “Market Shifts In Content Distribution”. This goes into four major shifts we identify in the current mobile content distribution landscape: Traditional business models are no longer in the lead App store content leaders of today are not those of tomorrow Impact of Asian countries on the [...]
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