The Amazon Appstore: Show Me the Money

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 [...]

The Impact Of App Discounts And The Impact Of Being A Featured App

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 [...]

BlackBerry DevCon Tickets Available to Distimo Monitor Users At 50% Discount

BlackBerry DevCon is coming to Europe on February 7-8 2012. Distimo has 50% discount tickets available for Monitor users, which will give you access to the conference, and moreover, Research In Motion will be providing a FREE BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to attendees. Message from Research In Motion below: Great, limited time offer for Distimo Monitor [...]

Distimo Featured Annual Report At Only €699

Together with our full year 2011 publication, Distimo proudly presents a more in-depth study of the past year in three Paid Featured Reports. These reports offer deep insights into all major applications stores in North America, Europe and Asia. A single report can be purchased for the entry-level price of €699,-, with combinations of reports being discounted [...]

Google Android Market Tops 400,000 Applications

Google Android Market gave itself a nice new year’s present last weekend. The total number of active applications worldwide in the Android Market reached the 400,000 milestone. Android Market has topped the 200K and 300K available apps milestones in April and August 2011 respectively. The main contributors to reach this milestone are free applications. Roughly, [...]

App Downloads More Than Tripled On Christmas Day

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 [...]

Quora Answering Series: Download Volume Needed To Hit The Top Charts

We noticed that many developers turn to Quora to validate mobile business plans, estimate market sizes or plan promotions more efficiently. At Distimo we gather a lot of data that is relevant to those developers. Therefore we decided to start tracking Quora and answer those questions for which we have data that we can share. [...]

App Store Rewind 2011, is Your App Listed?

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 [...]