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Apps with highest install rates (CPI) revealed in latest report

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 by Richard Harris

SplitMetrics, an app growth solutions company, has released its latest report, ASO Benchmarks & Mobile Trends Report 2024, offering a comprehensive analysis of App Store Optimization (ASO) benchmarks and mobile trends for 2024. The report delves into three key app categories: finance, shopping, and utilities. Apps with highest install rates (CPI) revealed from S...

SKAdNetwork and Private Relay quasi-VPN

Thursday, June 30, 2022 by Nathan Darst

During Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2020 and 2021, Apple came out with major updates to privacy that impacted mobile marketers for years to come in the iOS space. It’s no surprise everyone was waiting with bated breath to see where Apple would take us with WWDC 2022 announcements around iOS 16. While there were certainly going to be some...

Mobile market 2021 highlights

Thursday, February 3, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

At the end of the year everyone was talking about the future and making predictions, but what about the highlights of 2021? Last year was rich in sensations, new names appeared on the market, and many industry giants cooperated to enhance their power or work on large-scale joint projects. Apptica compiled a selection of the most significant events, cases, and changes th...

App price and tax changes from Apple

Thursday, January 20, 2022 by Richard Harris

Apple has announced new price and tax changes for purchases and apps. According to Apple, "When taxes or foreign exchange rates change, we sometimes need to update prices on the App Store in certain regions and/or adjust your proceeds." In-App Purchase and App price and tax and changes "In the next few days, prices of apps and in-app purchases (e...

Apple gaming studio predictions for 2022

Monday, December 20, 2021 by Justin Welter

If Apple were a person, it would seem they are (still) living on top of the world. Still flush with cash, flexing those privacy muscles with the final rollout of iOS 14.5 and then benching more with iOS 15, and up 29% year over year. But like a senior year quarterback with three championships already to their name, expectations are high and when they’re not m...

iOS 15 benchmark updates from AppsFlyer

Monday, November 1, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

AppsFlyer is back with an updated data set for iOS14+ Benchmarks. iOS 15 adoption hits 30% after 5 weeks since the release The share of users who have upgraded their operating systems to version 15 has only reached 30% as Apple has yet to push this update among its users. Adoption is slower than usual, iOS 14 reached 40% in the same time frame. iOS Shopping app...

How to get app reviews the right way

Monday, August 23, 2021 by Justin Welter

You’re playing a game on your phone and just finished a tough level. Or maybe you’re not into mobile games, but you are repeatedly swiping left if you know what I mean. Then a pop-up appears. “Like using our App? Rate us!” It stops your experience in its track to wait for a decision. What is driving these rating prompts, and why? As Apple has ...

The impact of iOS14 on digital advertising

Tuesday, July 6, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

The new way to look at ATT opt-in rates reveals 42% of consumer interactions with prompt allow ‘tracking’ (and 48% average per app). We can all but ensure users saw a prompt by isolating those whose ATT status was initially listed as ‘Not Determined’ and then later their status changed to either ‘Authorized’ or ‘Denied’...

2 pillars of privacy: the app developers guide

Thursday, July 1, 2021 by Alex Ritchie

Now that iOS 14.5 has finally made its grand appearance (and shortly thereafter, 14.5.1… then 14.6), everyone seems to be taking stock of its long-awaited and predicted impact on the mobile advertising industry. How has iOS 14.5 affected your company? Developers are taking stock and trying to figure out how the change will ultimately affect their bott...

GameBake launched for developers to reach new markets around the globe

Thursday, May 6, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

GameBake is thrilled to announce it has launched its distribution service for mobile games developers and publishers that wish to reach new markets across the globe. GameBake provides the infrastructure and knowledge needed for developers and publishers to publish their games on a variety of high-quality platforms beyond Google Play and the Apple App Store. Accessibl...

Apple developer guidelines for iOS 14.5 just got real

Monday, April 26, 2021 by Liz Waldeck-Pinckert

The day the mobile app industry has been waiting for has finally arrived. Apple begins enforcing its new privacy features this week with the release of iOS 14.5 – seven full months after the company first announced the changes. Starting this week, consent is mandatory for any and all user tracking. We’ve gone back and forth on what opt-in rates migh...

App tracking transparency and your API calls

Thursday, March 18, 2021 by Richard Harris

Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature is billed as a win for consumer data rights, with Apple vying for leadership as a global defender of privacy. But regardless of whether it’s good for you or not, the move has the potential to seriously disrupt apps and APIs that depend on the Identifier for Advertisers or IDFA. What’s more, even if an app d...

OTT media opportunities to grow in 2021

Thursday, January 7, 2021 by Richard Harris

2020 as the “great acceleration” towards an app-focused world The pandemic has really highlighted the utility that apps offer both brands and consumers — not to mention the many governments who have built COVID-tracing apps — in 2020. This has led to a ‘great acceleration’ toward a more app-focused world. In 2021, it&rsq...

UX predictions for 2021 from CleverTap

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

Mobile app end-users are dealing with competing messages all day long. In 2021, smart mobile developers will hyper-focus on improving the end-user engagement experience by way of timely, relevant, and attention-grabbing recommendations. To pull this off, they will prioritize building these data-driven functionalities into the backend of their apps so UX never falls to t...

Mobile ads are about to get annoying says Brainium Studios

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

The new year will usher in a new definition of “mobile” in mobile gaming apps. Currently, mobile gaming apps have been synonymous with gaming on our phones. But, with the non-stop innovation in IoT and the looming promises of 5G, the “mobile” in mobile gaming is about to refer to everything from refrigerators to mirrors to spaceships. Wherev...

Mobile app growth and revenue to remain strong in 2021

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 by Richard Harris

Making predictions for mobile advertising in 2021 is challenging, given how much the industry has changed in 2020 and the uncertainty ahead. Lockdowns and social distancing in 2020 accelerated the rise of digital, allowing many mobile apps to increase downloads and revenue. Even if the COVID-19 crisis comes to an end in 2021, mobile app growth and rev...

GameRefinery makes its iOS download and revenue data available free

Thursday, December 24, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

The data elves at mobile game insight and analytics specialist GameRefinery are bringing some much-needed Christmas cheer to all mobile game developers by making its download and revenue data for 100k iOS games available for free. Following its acquisition of market insight provider Reflection in early 2020, GameRefinery has been gradually integrating the data into its ...

iOS 14 IDFA opt in updates

Tuesday, November 24, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Forced to rethink the advertising model of today, developers will need to be educate consumers about privacy to incentivize their users to opt-in. Consumers could expect to see an uptick in apps requiring a fee to download or an ongoing subscription fee. Marketers who want to continue to offer Apple users personalized mobile advertising should start to bulk up their fir...

App Store Optimization for 2021

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 by Dave Bell

So much has changed in 2020, from the way we work to new advancements in mobile technology. App Store Optimization (ASO) has also changed, as the app ecosystem grows and developers continue to compete for downloads. As we’re more than halfway through 2020, it’s important to look to the future and see how ASO will continue to change heading into 2021. New ...

WWDC announcements will change the Apple ecosystem for developers

Monday, July 13, 2020 by Angela Yu

While WWDC is always a lively time for updates for developers, there’s rarely much to be excited about. This year, that changed. Showcasing bold moves to create a unified experience across devices, Apple focused on removing some of the biggest hurdles around app consumption and pain points around functionality and performance. The biggest show of this unifie...

A Mobile Game Developer Provides a Rare Inside the Numbers Look Into A Successful Mobile Game

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson

I can’t imagine a more competitive industry than the mobile games industry. The potential rewards are huge and real chance of very expensive failure is ever present. You can use one of the popular app store data companies to find out where a company ranks, and maybe have an idea of what that success means, but rarely do you get insider info like ustwo studio has release...

Opera Reports Android Edges Out iOS for Mobile Phone App Ad Impressions

Thursday, January 23, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson

Opera Mediaworks has a issued its fourth quarter report on mobile advertising showing that the year as a whole saw a significant increase in the mobile ad market. On its platform alone, Opera Mediaworks has seen a significant increase in global ad traffic year over year reaching over 425 million consumers, while serving over 60 billion impressions a month.Dri...