Amazon recently announced that it intends to expand the Amazon Appstore to almost 200 countries in the near future. In the meanwhile Distimo plans to add AppIQ support for the Amazon Appstore in terms of daily estimated downloads and one-off revenues. These two events were the reasons for Distimo to focus on the Amazon Appstore [...]
On Wednesday April 3rd, we hosted our Monthly Publication Webinar. The topic of this webinar was ‘How The Most Successful Apps Monetize Their User Base’, which followed the major findings in the Monthly Publication of March. The webinar includes findings about the revenue per downloaded app and buisiness models. We illustrated how you can make these [...]
This month’s report examines and analyzes the business models and revenues per download in the Apple App Store for the period from January 2012 through March 20, 2013, and looks at the development of the revenue generated by in-app purchases over time, along with the differences in monetization. It also analyzes the average revenue per [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report will give an overview of the most important developments in the Apple App Store and Google Play in 2012. How did the stores develop over the last year? Which store generates most revenue nowadays? What are the most downloaded apps and what are the [...]
Windows 8 was released for general availability to the public about a month ago. With the launch of Windows 8, the Windows Store now enables customers to easily download and update software on the system. We believe the Windows Store will become an important channel in digital software distribution, which is why we already support this app store. [...]
This month’s Distimo publication focuses on the 2012 best global brands. We have cited the Interbrand 2012 Best Global Brands report as the source for the top global brands for the purpose of this report. The Interbrand 2012 report lists the top 100 most valuable brands worldwide. We will look at how the apps of the [...]
The app ecosystem is one of the first truly global markets as all major app stores operate in the majority of the countries. Despite the global characteristics of the app ecosystem, content in each store largely differs from country to country. The focus on localization explains these differences. Apps could be localized with local promotional [...]
The introduction of smartphones transformed the mobile phone from a calling (and texting) device to a device that can do basically everything. One of the most important things, however, remains the social aspect of the phone. Calling is not always the primary task of the phone anymore but in general, social activities are still at the core of [...]
The iPhone was released more than five years ago without the ability to install apps on the phone, and the Apple App Store subsequently launched on July 10, 2008 – one year later. Only 500 applications were available for download at launch, but the number of applications quickly grew as people saw that third-party apps [...]
Exactly one year ago we wrote a publication about the rise of the application market in a number of East Asian countries. Over the course of the past year the application market in those same East Asian countries continued to grow at a high pace, while at the same time other markets also started to [...]