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 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 [...]
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 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, [...]
If you are a frequent visitor, you know that this blog is our standard outlet to report lastest findings on the apps market. We try to dig into our data and extract the most relevant trends at any given time, communicated either via our monthly publications or as blog posts. Since we are a numbers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After the introduction of the official Chinese currency, the Yuan (CNY), in the Apple App Store, the download volumes in the Apple App Store China have grown significantly. The download volume of paid applications in the Chinese top 100 has almost doubled after the 18th of November, the day Apple introduced the Yuan. The growth [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. The latest Distimo monthly report is a recap of one year Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and covers the story of an emerging application store and the behavior of developers in the store. The key findings from this report are: Paid applications in the Windows Phone [...]
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 [...]
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