Appsterdam is a very active community of developers which was kicked off over the last months by Mike Lee. It hosts a large selection of developer events and a weekly lunch lecture. This week Gert Jan Spriensma will be joining the Wednesday Lunchtime Lectures to talk about four major market shifts and what this means [...]
Your application name should be unique as search engines, both in store as on the web, are an important traffic driver. Or you take the opposite approach and take advantage of popular (high traffic) keywords in the app stores. Therefore, here at Distimo, we dove into the data in order to give more insight into [...]
Today we are pleased to announce our partnership with international games market research firm Newzoo to provide unique monthly data on game sales and downloads across all Apple App Stores. In this partnership we will combine the demographics of worldwide gamers that Newzoo collects through its Gamers Surveys with in-depth app store data from Distimo focused [...]
On June 7 and 8, the Mobile App World conference will be held in London. This two day conference is completely focused on mobile apps for an audience of brands, app developers, app marketing specialists, device manufacturers and platform owners: The timing of Mobile App World 2011 couldn’t be more perfect. This year is going [...]
Yesterday KPN, a leading carrier in The Netherlands, published its 2010 fourth quarter results. One of the widely discussed results was a decline in SMS revenues of 10% within one year. This decrease was caused by “changing consumer behavior, where mobile apps provide a data based alternative to the regular voice and SMS services”. Apps like [...]
Last summer, we covered the Mobile Developer Economics 2010 report, which was the result of a survey executed by market strategy firm Vision Mobile. There were some interesting findings in the report, such as the conclusion that app stores have improved time to shelf and payment by 60% for mobile developers. Now Vision Mobile is doing [...]
For the upcoming Mobile World Congress, the GSMA is hosting two App Challenges for developers; the Band App Audition and Brand App Challenge. With these initiatives developers are challenged to create the best innovate apps for a selection of well-known bands and consumer brands. From the GSMA press releases: Band App Audition – develop the app [...]
This week, Huawei announced the launch of Digital Shopping Mall, which is an app store for carriers. This product enables carriers to launch an app store, without the need to develop, maintain and fill the store. The Digital Shopping Mall supports different platforms (Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian) and is said to contain 80,000 applications, selected [...]
After the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Distimo now will also be joining the Mobile Asia Congress, which is being held on November 16-18 in Hong Kong. Distimo will be speaking during the App Planet Forum on Tuesday, 16th of November 2010 at this year’s Mobile Asia Congress. Vincent Hoogsteder will give a presentation [...]
Last month the AppNation conference took place in San Francisco. AppNation debuted this year and targetted social and mobile apps across all devices and platforms including PCs, smartphones, tablets, Internet-enabled televisions, portable gamers, peripherals and a range of other current and emerging connected devices. The slides from our presentation are available below:
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