Productivity app downloads are on the rise says Softonic
Friday, November 10, 2023 by Richard Harris
Softonic.com, the secure software distributor, recently revealed new data that suggests a surge in interest for niche productivity apps.
The data, extracted from Softonic’s own user metrics, reveals a snapshot of the most popular applications and the changes in their download numbers from January to September this year compared to the same period in ...
How Culture Can Impact App Downloads
Monday, August 3, 2015 by Richard Harris
YouAppi has released some interesting statistics from its app download data compiled from customer campaigns showing that differences in culture can indeed play a factor in app usage. YouAppi derived the stats from their proprietary algorithms which analyze the mobile content consumption, usage, and spending patterns of over 200 million app users.For example, the YouApp...
Reporting Changes to Windows Phone App Downloads and In App Products Reports
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Dev Center has announced that Windows Phone download and in-app purchase reports have been optimized to deliver information faster. The team released this change for Windows in December and is now are aligning these improvements to Windows Phone. App developers will now see transaction data no more than 2 days following the transaction itself and in man...
iPhone 6 Plus Gains in Market Share in US and China Could Boost App Downloads
Monday, January 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The iPhone 6 Plus is starting to flex its muscles and prove that bigger is better as it gains market share in the US and China.Applovin has released its latest Data Desk figures, concentrating on the impact of the iPhone 6 Plus market share in the two countries. They point out that there are a couple of interesting trends that happened: 1) iPhone sales in the December q...
New Study by MobPartner Shows App Publishers With Brand Awareness Are More Successful With Consumer App Downloads
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
A new study by mobile research firm On Device on behalf of mobile marketing company MobPartner has shown that mobile travel app users tend to resist spam and irrelevant which can cause them fail to engage with mobile travel ads.On Device spoke research 1,000 mobile users in August about how they engaged in travel research and planning, both on mobile and laptop, and wha...
As App Downloads Ramp Up for Holidays, Make Sure Your App Is Ready to Engage New Users
Monday, November 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
With the US economy steaming along, there is every reason to believe that holiday consumers are going to feel good about spending money this year on technology. The iPhone 6 may not be in abundant supply, however there will still be enough inventory available to significantly augment new iPad sales. And of course they will be accompanied by an onslaught of new Android b...
iOS 8 App Store Changes That Will Help Indie Developers
Monday, July 7, 2014 by Richard Harris
Over the past couple of years Apple inadvertently hampered the ability for Indie developers to gain exposure in the app store by changing the way users interact with the app store in general. Letting giant app publishers pay for downloads with incentives, changing the way search results appear, and the browsing experience overall has only gone to hurt, rather than...
The End of Incentivized App Downloads Will Bring New Opportunities to Indie App Developers
Thursday, July 3, 2014 by Filipa Oliveira
Apple is introducing a revamped iOS App Store with iOS 8 and with that, according to some news that has spread across the Internet, the end of incentivized app downloads, incentivized ad watching and social media sharing. In their defense, Apple has said that incentivized app downloads were driving inaccurate rankings in the App Store, because paying consumers to d...
Mag+ 5.0 Helps Content Owners Create Mobile Apps That Deeply Engage Users
Monday, February 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
Fresh user interface, new storefront, real-time communication, deeper analytics fuel successMag+ today released version 5.0 of its platform for creating mobile applications for touchscreen devices. All the robust changes in Mag+ 5.0 focus on helping clients to better engage their users, bolster conversions and increase sales. Offering a richer in-app storefront an...
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...
Twitter Cards Promises Developers More App Downloads
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by Richard Harris
Social integration should be a part of any app you develop. Sharing scores on Facebook and Twitter, along with any app related information can help drive downloads of your app, which in-turn make you more revenue.Twitter has announced a couple new additions to their Twitter cards program. One is app deep-linking. Basically this works by including some schema information...
Microsoft says app downloads and revenue is climbing
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 by Richard Harris
Yesterday Microsoft announced that app downloads and revenue all together have more than doubled since the release of Windows operating system version 8 which is mobile ready and is designed to be universal across desktops and tablet style devices.The announcement was a bit vague and we have yet to hear the chimes of any actual Windows phone developers further strengthe...
