iOS 12 notifications did not change user behavior report says
Monday, March 25, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Urban Airship, a digital engagement platform, looked at the iOS 12 notification (push alerts) adoption rates in the first six months of its availability and came across some interesting findings. You might remember that a key pillar of the iOS 12 update was the introduction of quiet notifications and group notifications - well, it didn't matter says their findings.
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Testing your app for the holidays
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 by Eran Kinsbruner
It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year and retailers of all sizes have already been busy preparing - and in some cases bracing - for the upcoming surge in traffic that is expected to hit their websites and mobile shopping apps this holiday season. Salesforce is predicting that mobile devices will drive 68 percent of all holiday shopping traffic this year,...
Four privacy questions every developer needs to answer
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 by Morgan Reed
Over the past twelve months, the internet-connected doll My Friend Cayla went from one of the hottest toys of the holiday season to an internationally-classified "espionage device." The doll was the subject of an FBI warning, banned from sale or ownership in Germany, and eventually dropped from every major retailer in the United States. Despite the nearly universally hi...
Insights on push alert frequency to improve new app user retention
Monday, March 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
Mobile growth company Urban Airship detailed industry findings from its mobile app retention study, spanning new users’ first 90-days of app usage within retail, media, sports & recreation and utility/productivity. By analyzing the frequency of messaging users received and their corresponding retention rates, Urban Airship provides a deeper understanding that dispel...
From installs to value: three trends in the age of app marketing
Thursday, October 20, 2016 by Brendon Kraham
Mobile apps are ubiquitous. We live in a world where there are over four million apps to choose from and where attention spans are shorter than ever before. As a result, it is becoming increasingly more important for marketers to understand the critical moments of engagement that are happening in the palms of users’ hands.Over the past decade, app developers banked on t...
Apple Pay Is So Much More Than Just a Payment Mechanism
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 by Gillian Hughes
Apple Pay was announced in the US in late 2014 and launched with quite a bit of fanfare in the UK in July 2015. Today, most of the big UK banks have committed to support Apple Pay, although not all were part of the scheme when it first launched. For those who don’t know, Apple Pay is a mobile payment system and digital wallet service designed to change the way cons...
How to Make Your App Ready for the Holidays
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 by Lynn Wang
It’s almost November. Now is the time to start prepping your app for the burst of new users downloading new apps for shopping, revisiting the existing retail apps on their phones, and/or just downloading a bunch of apps for the first time because they just got their brand new smartphones.Now is the time to make sure your user experiences are optimized. Here are 4 ways t...
Conduit Mobile Rebrands App Generating Platform as Como
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Conduit Mobile is rebranding its mobile app generation platform to the new name Como, which offers a non coding environment to create apps for all major mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, and HTML5).Along with a new name, logo, website, blog, etc, the company is also introducing the Como Console, an all-in-one platform for creating, editing,...
Aspiring App Developers Get Real World Training at Mobile Makers Academy
Monday, December 16, 2013 by Ron Beaman
Headquartered in Chicago, USA, the Mobile Makers Academy attracts individuals who are interested in careers as mobile developers. The full-time, eight-week iOS bootcamp simulates a real work environment with independent and team-based hands on coding as opposed to a traditional learning environment that emphasizes lectures.
The academy provides small class s...
Australian Startup BlackGears to Provide Branded Merchandise for In App Monetization
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 by Ron Beaman
While it might makes sense for the largest app publishers to add branded merchandise to their monetization arsenal, most other non-retail app publishers are reluctant to take on the responsibility of selling and distributing actual physical consumer goods.
Startup BlackGears is betting that app publisher's reluctance will change with the company's new...
iOS Passbook where are you now
Friday, December 21, 2012 by Richard Harris
Passbook was a new feature released in iOS 6 that allowed users to keep important items such tickets, boarding passes, coupons and so forth in a digital type wallet. Developers were a bit confused at first as to how to implement the Passbook system into their apps, but it's starting to sink in that the solution could be the next big thing in retail app de...