The best Thanksgiving 2018 game that makes you look busy
Thursday, November 22, 2018 by Austin Harris
Want some Thanksgiving fun this year? The Turkey plucker game seems like a completely useless game where you pluck the feathers from a turkey as fast as you can, and you keep plucking until your fingers bleed - or you simply give up! But under the hood is an addictive and unique gameplay style, that keeps you hooked - plucking turkey for hours it seems.
The turke...
Holiday marketing strategies 2018 from Helpshift
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
New proprietary internal data has been released from Helpshift, the company whose AI-powered customer service platform enables consumer brands to message back and forth with their customers to get their questions answered efficiently.
Helpshift’s inaugural Holiday Performance Index includes data from the company’s retail and e-commerce customers for...
App developers find Holiday campaigns challenging
Thursday, October 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
YouAppi has announced the results of a comprehensive survey that evaluated U.S. consumers on their personal holiday shopping habits and preferred mobile holiday experience. The survey also questioned global digital marketers, advertisers and app developers on their 2017 mobile holiday preparation and campaign plans. While 95 percent of businesses see the holiday season ...
How Fanatics gets ready for March Madness
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
When a team makes the playoffs, signs a player, or wins it all, Fanatics, a sports apparel company, wants to be first with the gear fans want. In order to maintain speed in the cutthroat world of e-commerce, the tools that Fanatics needs to use must be just as fast, reliable, and flexible as the current market trends. That's why Fanatics chose CircleCI Enterprise as the...
Help for app marketers during the coming holiday rush in the app store
Friday, October 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
AppsFlyer has released their study, App Marketing Best Practices for the 2016 Holiday Season, to guide app marketers' strategies to win the holiday rush. The study focuses on two key app categories: shopping and gaming, and highlights the differences in behaviors between iOS and Android users. The data to inform the study was pulled from 50 million app installs in the U...
10 App Favorites for a Sane Thanksgiving
Monday, November 24, 2014 by Dale Carr
With Thanksgiving around the corner, we naturally got to thinking about spending time with friends and family this season. Rather than a bucolic postcard scene of gathered loved ones telling stories by the fireplace, our staff imagined a more modern and realistic version which includes quite a few of us checking our devices and enjoying some quality time with our ...
Interview With The Creator of Naughty or Nice Scanner app
Saturday, November 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Okay I'm a little bias because I actually wrote this app, but the Naughty or Nice Scan app for 2014 is so much fun! The first version of the app was published in 2011 and was met with tremendous success but it's now grown into the #1 scanner app in the app store. Over the years there have been numerous copycat apps come along (some better than others), but not...
Will iBeacons Break Out This Holiday Retail Season
Monday, November 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Black Friday or Cyber Monday – which is bigger? Actually, that question may be a moot point, as many retail pundits think that Thanksgiving day in the US may quickly overtake those two days as more retail stores open their doors in advance of Black Friday. What better way to work off the drowsiness from the effect of the Tryptophan in your turkey than by getting out and...
Turkey Plucker Thanksgiving Holiday App
Sunday, November 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Have some hilarious fun plucking the turkey or cutting it up with Turkey Plucker by Moonbeam Development! This Thanksgiving holiday themed game is all about seeing how fast you can pluck the feathers from a turkey to get em' ready for Thanksgiving dinner! Use your fingers to pull them feathers off as fast as you can, and challenge others by sharing your h...
No Tricks Here, Halloween Apps to Take Off This Holiday Season
Monday, October 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SOASTA has released the results of its Halloween Retail Readiness Index which was conducted online in the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of SOASTA from October 9-13, 2014 among 2,026 adults, ages 18 and older. The study provides a lesson that is valuable across all app genres. Your app or mobile website better work or it will be abandoned forever - now that’s a scary tho...
App Developers Winners in Mobile Holiday Shopping Movement
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 by Richard Harris
App developers have a lot to smile about this holiday shopping season, according to analysis of data by mobile analytics provider Mobidia.
In yet another report on the power of this holiday season’s mobile shopping activity, Mobidia’s analysis of data gathered over the biggest buying day of the year, Black Friday, clearly demonstrates a growing reliance on and usa...
LeadBolt Sees Large Increase in Mobile Downloads Over Black Friday
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Mobile users increased their app discovery efforts by almost 50% on the LeadBolt network over the three-day period beginning the day before Thanksgiving through Black Friday when compared to similar non holiday periods. Other findings seen by the company during the time period include: 31% increase in mobile app usage (determined by impression lift), compared to no...
The November Issue of App Developer Magazine Is Here!
Friday, November 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
The November Issue of ADM is here and available on our website and in mobile newsstands now! There is a wealth of information in this issue for any app developer (big or small) to take advantage of during the Fall and Winter seasons. It contains 12 featured articles in all, plus our regular monthly news sections, industry spotlight, app showcase, and a hi...
Chartboost releases their 2012 Holiday Wrap up
Thursday, January 17, 2013 by Richard Harris
Chartboost has released their analytics as recorded over this last holiday season. No big shockers here, but still interesting to see trends.Overall it look like advertisers were paying an average of 8% more to gain users during Halloween and Thanksgiving had 17% more games advertised than on Halloween. What's interesting to note is traffic seemed to increase quite...
Android more trouble than it's worth
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
Google is still the champ in the smartphone world. A recent report by Gartner shows Android market share at over 72%. But what good does it do to put your product into a market like that if you can't monetize it right?Users don't buy on Android as muchFirst of all, a little bit of data: until the end of 2011, 200m Android handsets had been activated. By June of this yea...
Constant Contact promotion
Friday, November 23, 2012 by Richard Harris
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Constant Contact has just provided small business owners one more reason to say Thanks.On Monday only, people signing up for any constant contact tool will get 40% off the next 3 months! This is a great opportunity to spread the word to your customers and prospects about constant contact and your integration,while gaining reve...
The long lines to get an app approved by Apple
Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Richard Harris
Complaints are coming from some developers that Apple’s App Store approval process has slowed recently, with wait times running up to three weeks.
The drawn-out process is particularly troubling for some that are hoping to launch games or other applications in time for the holidays to take advantage of higher-than-usual phone and tablet sales. “It’s been ...
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