Our Paid Featured reports offer deep insights into all major applications stores in North America, Europe and Asia. Please note that the next Featured Report will cover April 2012; the March report will not become available. Our previous Featured Reports are still available for purchase.
In addition to the the major trends in the app stores, each report covers an extra topic:
• The annual 2011 report covers all major trends, in growth and in pricing among others, in the app stores covering the period January 2011 – November 2011.
• The December 2011 report allows you to analyze the impact of being featured on download volumes in the Apple App Store for iPhone and the Apple App Store for iPad.
• The January 2012 report covers in depth insights into the Download Volumes generated in the Amazon Appstore since launch.
• Our February 2012 report for North America offers understanding into the average number of downloads per application for a large selection of categories in the Apple App Store for iPad in the United States.
Paid Featured February 2012 Reports
Our Paid Featured February 2012 reports will allow you to:
• Analyze the download volume generated in the Amazon Appstore (North America only), Apple App Store and the Apple Mac App Store and the revenue generated in the Apple App Store and Google Play.
• Gain insight into the average number of downloads per application for a large selection of categories in the Apple App Store for iPad in the United States.
• Identify the most successful regional applications and their publishers in each store individually.
• Analyze the share of revenue generated by apps with in-app purchases in each region individually.
Please note that aside from the February 2012 Featured Reports, our Annual 2011 Featured Reports are also still available for purchase.
Covered in this report
We currently offer three paid featured reports for February 2012:
Please note that numbers for BlackBerry App World are based on global data.
Report Delivery
Each individual paid featured report consists of a presentation in PDF format and an Excel file containing all data. The Excel files contain data for February 2012.
The PDF presentations include four slides that contain in-depth analyses of the data provided. Additionally, the ten most popular free and paid applications are provided for each application store, laid out over two slides for each individual store.
The Excel reports provide a significant dataset that can be used for further analysis, including the increase in download volumes resulting from being featured, information on the 300 most popular free and 300 most popular paid applications, and pricing levels for every category and store. Finally, the Excel reports provide data on the download volumes and business models used by the top grossing applications in the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Methodology
Distimo tracks both publicly as well as transactional data for supported application stores and countries. Data tracked includes, but is not limited to: application and publisher names, application prices, popularity and grossing ranks, releases, updates and ratings.
Besides tracking publicly available data, Distimo uses transactional data in an aggregated manner, collected from a wide variety of publishers using Distimo Monitor. Using sophisticated and proprietary algorithms, Distimo extracts valuable information from this data that is used by worldwide leading handset manufacturers, operators and developers to make well-informed decisions regarding mobile content and strategy.
