App Discovery Nightmare And How Reliance Games Is Tackling It
As app discovery of games becomes an ever more insurmountable challenge, vendors take a new look at partnering and licensing. India's Reliance Games is one surprising example of how to play the game with a new angle. Over the last couple of weeks, there have been several days when only one [...]
The Oddest App Revenue Success Story of 2014?
Quick - which of these apps do you think is the biggest grosser in the US iPad app market today: "Minecraft", "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" or "Wall Street Journal"? As a matte of fact, it's the one with in-depth coverage of bond market fluctuations. Over the past year, several grey old [...]
BlackBerry Gets Surprisingly Hot Early Sales With BBM Stickers
Just two days after BBM Stickers launch, BBM has rocketed up the iPhone sales charts in key Asian and African markets. Could BBM be turning into a real revenue generator? BlackBerry unveiled paid stickers for BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) tailored for Apple's iPhones and Google's Android smartphones two days ago. Premium sticker [...]
Paid App Market Is Shrinking With Stunning Speed
Tired and disgusted with free apps that try to hawk in-game purchases and ads to you at every turn? There is no escape; the entire app market is going freemium. The reason for the rapid transition is spelled out by App Annie's new survey. It claims that revenue from paid [...]
Three Secrets Of The Only 5 Year Old iPhone Hit App
In March 2009, an iPhone app called "Doodle Jump" debuted and entered rapidly the Top 20 paid download chart. Apple's iPhone app platform was still in its infancy and nobody realized just how huge the content empire would be. One early app hit held on for half a decade of [...]