Our Paid Featured Annual 2011 reports offer deep insights into all major applications stores in North America, Europe and Asia. The reports will allow you to:
• Analyze growth of the application store ecosystem during 2011, in terms of application availability as well as download/revenue volume.
• Identify the most successful regional applications and their publishers in each store individually.
• Analyze the growth of in-app purchase revenues in each region individually.
Covered in this report
We currently offer three paid featured annual reports for 2011:
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 January and November 2011 in separate, allowing you to analyze changes during this period. All top application data is aggregated over the entire January – November 2011 timeframe.
The PDF presentations include six 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 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.
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.
