Hard Knock Life
What will be the impact of losing the App Store’s top grossing charts?
Another Apple shake up
Top Move?
Apple may dump App Store top grossing charts in iOS 11
Could have wide impact on industry and consumers
New Era
The App Store is getting a design overhaul
Apple wants to improve discovery of new apps and adds room for how-to guides
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: New games flood the download charts but Figdet Spinner remains top dog
Rankings from May 22nd to May 28th
The Big Bucks
Mobile developers generate over $70 billion in App Store revenues
Number of downloads increased by 70% in last 12 months
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Fidget spinner games continue to dominate with Ketchapp's latest
Rankings from May 15th to May 21st
Million Dollar Baby
66 publishers made their first $1 million in annual revenue on the US App Store in 2016
Compared to 39 on Google Play, according to Sensor Tower
Apple 180
Apple U-turns on lowering app affiliate commission rates to 2.5%
Now only IAPs will be affected
Watch This Space
How Apple’s App Store Search Ads are enabling developers to expand their discovery profitably
Gaining rank at cost
App Store Price Increase
Apple increase App Store prices in Denmark, Mexico, Taiwan and EU countries
Appears to be introducing alternate pricing tiers to affected countries
Search Ads Roll Out
App Store Search Ads roll out to the UK, Australia and New Zealand
Four territories now have access to cheap ad space
Affiliates Affected
Apple to cut commission rates for app affiliate links to 2.5%
Every other type of content remains at 7%
Bye Bye 32-bit
Apple could be ending support for 32-bit apps in iOS 11
Should make performance better on newer devices
Free No More
Apple now rejecting any app or game that references its own price on the App Store
No more releasing free versions of the same game
Back Of The Net
Eight Pixels Square tops UK and France App Store charts with Retro Soccer
Midcore studio finds success with simpler title
Indie Mavens
Will the new App Store Indies section have any real impact on indie mobile games?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Permanent Spotlight
NimbleBit, Zach Gage and Untame praise the App Store's new indie games section
“I think it has the potential to be really great,” says Gage
Indie Spotlight
Apple opens permanent App Store section for indie game developers
Shining a spotlight on indie creativity
We Heart Indies
Apple celebrates indies with launch of 12 new games on the App Store between March 9th and 20th
A new title released and featured every day, even at the weekend
Something's Bugging Me
App Store bug causes top grossing ranks to drop Candy Crush Saga for driving theory test app
Or was Apple testing a new algorithm?
On The Move
Apple to move international iTunes business from Luxembourg to Ireland
Division responsible for App Store in over 100 countries
App Store Data
Priori Data on what market trends and app store evolution means for indies
Anders Lykke breaks it down by the numbers
Thanks Brexit
UK App Store prices to jump 25% due to slumping value of the Pound
Turkey and India see price increases too
Breakout Success
Ex-Boomlagoon founder's latest indie game Breakout Ninja draws in 500,000 downloads in first week
Only took two weeks to make
Money Makers
App Store developers earned $20 billion in 2016
Apple rounds up its 2016 with some big numbers
Charitable Fiends
Apple's Games for (RED) sees millions of Best Fiends and Episode players raise money to fight AIDS
Seriously and Pocket Gems share some stats
Apple Best Of 2016
Clash Royale named best iPhone game of 2016 by Apple
Pokemon GO doesn't get a look in
App Store Metrics
App Store trends for November 2016: Average of 792 games submitted every day
We take a look at the data from our App Store Metrics
China In October
NetEase and Tencent continued to dominate the App Store in China in October
Newzoo's report breaks it down
Get Them Cheap
High quality users are cheaper to acquire on iPhone than Android
According to Verto Analytics
App Store Metrics
App Store trends for October 2016: Breaking down the number of apps and pricing points
We take a look at the data from our App Store Metrics
Get Found
How to use Apple's App Store Search Ads
Search Ads are now available, but where should you start?
Record Breaker
China’s iOS App Store revenues hit record $1.7 billion in Q3 2016 as staggering growth continues
Now the biggest marketplace for iOS apps
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile games industry pros think of App Store Search Ads?
Mobile Mavens debate the latest app discovery tool
Super Pre-registration
Super Mario Run hits 20 million pre-registrations on the App Store
Tim Cook talks Nintendo and AR
Cheap And Cheerful
App Store Search Ad campaigns have a 49.4% conversion rate with $0.40 CPA
Mobile Action breaks down the stats
Getting In Early
Zynga, MZ, and King are already blocking App Store Search Ads on their own games
Bigger brands leave space wide open
Look At Me
App Store developers can start using Search Ads on October 5th to promote their games
Appe details pricing structure and analytics package
2009-2016
Angry dev bemoans Apple's removal of iosoftware’s games "without warning"
CEO Eugene Ivanov protests innocence
Apple Cleans Up
Apple to limit app name length to 50 characters in the App Store
Deleting broken apps too
Sssmash Hit
Slither.io achieved 80 million downloads worldwide in Q2 2016
So says Sensor Tower's Q2 Data Digest
Nearly Free-to-play
Top Indian indie games selling at $0.15 apiece as part of Indian App Store's Independence Week
Four Indian Mavens featured
Too Many Apps?
App Store to have over 5 million active apps by the end of 2020
73% more than the end of 2016
Premium Or F2p?
Indian Mavens discuss Blyss and the power of an App Store feature for paid games
Is premium still too risky?
Power Of Brands
Why App Store Paid Search will reward developers with strong brand marketing
Priori Data and Pocket Whale crunch some numbers
Mobile Nation
iOS the most popular platform for UK games developers
Mobile leads the way
Banking Billions
App Store developers have earned more than $50 billion since 2008
July 2016 was a record breaking month for the marketplace
8 Years Of Pain
Tapdaq's Ted Nash on thinking outside the app stores
Ted Nash takes a look back in anger
Find Me If You Can
Lacking organic discovery, 91% of games and apps on App Store are 'zombies'
Adjust crunches some numbers
Virgin Ground
Fallout Shelter comes to Chinese App Store thanks to Shanda Games
Shanda Games take publishing role