New Year's Day
Apple App Store revenue soars to new record of $386 million in one day
$1.42 billion accumulated between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
Caught Short
Apple rejects PewDiePie's latest mobile game Poopdie citing "crude imagery"
Developer Bulbware has launched an appeal to get the decision overturned
Download Drivers
Say Games, Voodoo and Good Job Games the most downloaded gamecos
Sensor Tower's Q3 2019 data
Bug Or Intentional?
Updated: 22 million App Store reviews have been mysterious deleted
AppFigures highlights something strange
Continued Protests
Apple and Google pull apps from their storefronts due to Hong Kong protests
Boss of the iPhone maker Cook says that product in question was being "used maliciously" to target police
App Store Kerfuffle
Apple accidentally pays Chinese App Store developers more than expected after bank error
Sources claim the error most likely affected indie developers; Apple to reclaim payouts
Child Friendly
Apple delays rule changes to data tracking and advertisement in children’s apps
"We aren't backing off on this important issue, but we are working to help developers get there"
Counterpoint
Counterpoint: Offerwalls still deliver enormous value in 2019
As Apple enforces bans on offerwall-based CPI and CPE campaigns, CPA campaigns are still an option for developers
Sensor Tower
India tops worldwide mobile downloads for Q2 2019 with 5.4 billion
13 per cent increase from Q1 2019
Deuces Wild
KamaGames expands portfolio with new social casino title Video Poker
“A core focus for us in 2019 was to create a diverse portfolio of standalone apps that would complement our already existing titles”
Be Connected Be Discovered
Facebook tops mobile app publishers worldwide for Q2 2019
Google dominates the App Store however
App Shutdown
Niantic is shutting down its first app Field Trip
Field Trip has already been removed from app stores
Crushes Candy Crush
Pokemon Go generates $2.65 billion in first three years
Worldwide catch ‘em all is on track to cross $3 billion in 2019
Whole Lotta Cash
Mobile game spending for the first half of 2019 reaches nearly $30 billion
20.1 billion downloads showing a 3.2 per cent increase year-on-year
Another Lawsuit
Developers sue Apple over App Store fees
“This isn’t the first time we’ve taken Apple to task over anti-competitive behaviour”
Indie Mavens
Does Apple and Google's 70/30 revenue share model work for indies?
The Indie Mavens have their say on the platform's revenue share policy
Linked Up
Steam Link finally available on the App Store
Game purchases have been taken out of the app to comply with Apple's guidelines
Apple Vs Pepper
US Supreme Court declares Apple can face monopoly lawsuits
Dispute to be settled in lower courts
Paperboy
Apple co-develops first game in over a decade with Warren Buffett’s Paper Wizard
Texas Hold ’em was the company’s previous release in 2008
Knocked Down
Devs lose out on thousands of dollars as Apple cracks down on offerwall ads
Developers on and off the record discuss impact
Grow
Global mobile gaming revenue hit $14.6 billion in Q1 2019
Gaming accounted for 76 per cent of all app revenue last quarter
Huge Growth
Global mobile user spending to reach $156 billion by 2023
Latin America and Africa were both noted as most likely to see the biggest increase in growth revenue
Show Time
It’s Show Time at Apple as it prepares to launch games subscription service
Could be announced tonight or later this year
Teen Titans Goal!
Cartoon Network launches new games app Cartoon Network Arcade
Largest library of Cartoon Network games in one place
Epic Win
Fortnite surpasses $500 million for iOS in less than a year
Game took 326 days to hit the milestone
Subscription Gaming
Report: Apple plots subscription service for games
But how will it work?
Whew
App Store users forked out $1.5 billion between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day
Customers spent $322 million on January 1st alone
Christmas Gift?
App Store users could soon gift in-app purchases
But functionality is not yet in place
Time To Recalculate
Why the 70:30 App Store revenue split is doomed
The old order is passing
Halo Effect
Why the Epic Games Store could reposition Android as the gamers’ mobile ecosystem
The power of open
Oh Dear
Apple removes strategy game from the iOS App Store for featuring the Taliban
The development director at the studio who published the game shared the news on Twitter
Legal Battle
Apple heads to Supreme Court over App Store 'monopoly'
Is Apple's dominance over its closed-off iOS ecosystem inflating prices?
Recycling Ad Dollars
How AppCoins hopes to monetise unbanked app store users via blockchain
Creating value flow
Is It Worth It?
Is it time for the App Store and Google Play to ditch the 70/30 revenue split?
The mobile mavens offer their opinions
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Hello Stars, Hello Neighbor and Plank! top flurry of new stars in download rankings
Rankings from July 23rd to 29th
Severing Links
Apple limits App Store discovery as it cuts affiliate programme and threatens future of mobile sites
Officially ends October 1st 2018
Paradise Palms
Fortnite mobile clears 100 million downloads and $160m revenue
Reached milestone
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Gardenscapes returns as a top 10 grosser
Rankings from July 16th to 22nd
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Fortnite a top grosser on iPhone and iPad
Rankings from July 9th to 15th
Mobile Mavens
What's been the impact of the App Store on the games industry and where does it go from here?
The Mobile Mavens have their say
Co-op
App Store and Google Play game revenues hit combined $26.6 billion in first half of 2018
The combined total is a 28 per cent year-on-year increase from last years $26.9 billion
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Pokemon Go and Fortnite rise to the top grossing summit as Candy Crush Saga falls
Rankings from July 2nd to 8th
Big Data Energy
The numbers behind the iOS App Store's 10-year stay
You could say it's been a bit of a success
App Store 10 Years
10 ways the App Store changed the games industry
We look at the impact of the App Store as it celebrates its 10th anniversary
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Pokemon Quest jumps into top 10 download rankings for iPhone and iPad
Rankings from June 25th to July 1st
10 Years
App Store users have spent over $4 billion on Supercell’s Clash of Clans
Supercell is just behind majority owner Tencent in terms of consumer revenue made per company
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Love Island: The Game pips Pokemon Go to be the third highest grossing game
Rankings from June 18th to 24th
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Love Island: The Game debuts at top spot in iPhone free chart and is a top grosser
Rankings from June 11th to 17th
Chart Check
Top 50 US App Store games take 76% of the revenue
Apptopia research finds iOS games peak quickly, with harsh falloff
Teen Titan
16 year-old’s South African game nabs 100k downloads in 24 hours after App of the Day promotion
Torus chosen as Game of the Day in 137 countries, downloaded 100,000 times in 24 hours