New progressive web app framework introduced by Marfeel
Thursday, January 18, 2018 by Austin Harris
Marfeel has announced the launch of its Marfeel PWA technology, which enables publishers to benefit fully from the next big thing in the mobile ecosystem. As an early adopter of progressive web app technology, Marfeel offers such forward-looking capabilities as 0.7-second page loads for first meaningful paint, push notifications, offline access to content, and striking ...
Big Nerd Ranch doubled their profits last year
Thursday, February 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
According the App Annie Forecast Report, the global mobile app store downloads will reach 288.4 billion in 2020, up from 149.3 billion in 2016. That's almost double the amount of downloads in just 4 years! Information like this makes wanna-be mobile developers jump out of their seats to ask one question, "How can I do THAT?"Although some do go on to do the traditional c...
ASO and Fear of the Unknown
Thursday, April 7, 2016 by David Lovell
App stores are densely saturated and constantly growing. With over 1,000 new apps added every day to Apple’s App Store alone, getting their apps discovered is a leading issue faced by mobile app developers today. One of the most important methods of maximizing marketing efforts for an app is App Store Optimization (ASO). ASO is the process of optimizing an app's pl...
Latest Issue of App Developer Magazine Highlights the Expanding Application Economy
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The latest issue of App Developer Magazine is now available offering top insight, expert commentary and the latest news about the application economy.The November 2015 issue offers contributions from a number of people that are leading the companies that are creating the products and services that are the underpinning of the app economy. These feature articles are wide ...
Not Getting App Store Downloads Here's Why
Saturday, October 31, 2015 by Sean Killian
As the development of your mobile app progresses, you should start considering all the elements of your app marketing plan. The first place to start is your app store optimization (ASO) plan for the App Store. Why? Research shows that 60-70% of AppStore downloads come directly from search and discovery within the App Store. I will focus on Apple products here, but ...
New Q1 2014 App Market Report Shows Google Play Revenue Climbs in US and China Leads iOS Growth
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
A new report from App Annie is showing that the worldwide app market continues to grow as Google Play revenue climbs in the United States, and China leads iOS growth. The analysis comes from the App Annie Market Index, a barometer of the macro trends that are emerging in the app ecosystem across stores, countries and categories. The analysis of the global...
Report: Freemium and In App Advertising See Massive Revenue Gains
Thursday, April 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
Lets face it, at the end of the day, anyone who creates a mobile app is doing so to generate revenue (most of the time). The largest enterprises all the way to small indie developers don’t spend all the time, energy and cost to develop an app just for grins and giggles, revenue is always the bottom line.From an app monetization and marketing standpoint, mobile still rep...
Amazon App Developers Say the New Developer Select Program Works
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon launched their ADS program a few months ago to try and help developers get noticed in their app store. The results are on and the latest stats from Amazon’s Appstore Developer Select program shows it's helped increase app discovery across the board, leading to more downloads and higher conversion rates since its launch last year for many app developers.Spec...
Asia Mobile News : New Report Says Asia Is The Leading App Market In The World
Thursday, January 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
In a new report from Distimo concerning app store downloads and revenue generated, Asia is claiming the #1 spot taking in a whopping 41% of the total revenue generated globally! The Asian app store market is a train that cannot be stopped and this month's report takes a deep dive into the trends happening in Asia and the countries in it - including China, Hong...
App Developers Conference Survey Finds Piracy and Discoverability are Big Problems
Monday, September 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
Piracy and discoverability are the top issues facing app developers today, according to new research conducted by the organizers of the inaugural App Developers Conference (ADC). In order to paint a picture of the app development landscape as it stands right before ADC, more than 250 app creators were surveyed on topics ranging from targeted platforms and app stores to...
App Annie Reports Google Play Exceeds iOS App Store in App Downloads by 10 percent in Q2 2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
App Annie has released its 2nd quarter mobile platform analysis and reports that Google Play has exceeded the iOS App Store downloads by 10%. While iOS is behind Android in downloads, still generates 2.3 times the revenue.
For iOS, the top countries by number of downloads were: (1) - United States; (2) China; (3) Japan; (4) United Kingdom; and (5) Russia, with the US a...
Apple Developer payouts hit $8 billion
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 by Richard Harris
Last January Apple reported developer payouts were at $7 billion dollars, but while at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference this week, Tim Cook announced payouts have hit $8 billion. That is $1 billion to developers in a years time, wow!So what is happening that Apple's payout to developers has increased so much? One obvious thing is the increase in the ...
Apple App Store Stats for 2012
Monday, January 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
The latest statistics are out from Apple in regards to their App Store downloads and interactivity. The report says there have been over 40 billion app downloads since the App Store's inception, and 20 billion of those downloads were in 2012 alone!This certainly testifies to the fact that the mobile economy is still growing by astronomical numbers, and that 2012 was a g...
