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Android Passes iOS in Mobile Ad Revenues
Posted on May 18th, 2015
The mobile revenue share continues to trend toward Android. Last year, Android passed iOS in share of mobile ad impressions, or ad traffic. According to Opera Software's latest "State of Mobile Advertising"

Apple Analytics Deeper Dive
Posted on May 14th, 2015
After a week of playing around with the data presented in Apple's new Analytics module - thought it was time to take a deeper dive and share some screenshots. When you login to Apple App Analytics, you are presented with all of your apps, and their

The Mobile Majority
Posted on May 8th, 2015
In a report published April 29th from Pew Research, "State of News Media 2015", the impact of mobile was obvious in just about every media source, type and niche.

Apple Analytics Have Arrived
Posted on May 6th, 2015
Last week Apple started sending invites to beta test their Apple Analytics module they had announced all the way back at their worldwide developers conference in summer, 2014.

Apple Watch Apps
Posted on April 27th, 2015
Already sold out, the Apple Watch landed in Apple Stores today. With the new Watch comes new Apps! For now, Apple Watch apps only work as companion apps to the iPhone. Found via the Apple Watch icon on devices running the latest version of iOS, and via the App Store. While these apps can be built specifically for Watch use, they must be installed and paired with an iPhone. Currently, there are around 3,000 iPhone apps that have been built exclusively for the Apple Watch. Search on the Apple Watch version of the App Store looks alot like a the version accessed from an iPhone:

Mobile Messaging Apps
Posted on April 15th, 2015
Messenger apps are hot. Facebook recently released their messenger app as a stand-alone web app, 6 months after pulling the messenger feature of their Facebook app into a standalone mobile app. Snapchat is charging $100 CPMs. Tencent (QQMobile) is valued at over $200 billion. Get to know the top mobile messaging apps by monthly average users in our latest slide deck.
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Facebook's New Analytics for Apps
Posted on April 11th, 2015
At f8 2015 , Facebook announced new Facebook

Gearing up for the Apple Watch Launch
Posted on April 9th, 2015
How cool is the Apple Watch release? Sales are by appointment only. Here are the important dates:

Latest on Mobile Usage and Ad Spend
Posted on April 3rd, 2015
Every so often - maybe quarterly - it is good to take a step back and take in a broader perspective of the market. How are potential customers consuming information? What new tools or social networks are they using? How are organizations spending their ad budgets, what percent is mobile ad spend and what are their development budgets? Not so much a competitive analysis - but rather a review of some of the latest reports to get a pulse on "what's happening". A few reports were released in the last week that provide some new or updated insights to mobile usage and mobile ad spend.

Facebook f8 2015 Mobile Impact
Posted on April 2nd, 2015
Videos from Facebook's f8 2015 conference are up and accessible here. Wow - so much mobile-related goodness! For mobile app publishers, a few announcements could prove to be game-changers, specifically Messenger and Sharing.

6 Mobile Marketing Infographics Worth Viewing
Posted on March 27th, 2015
We love data. As an App Store Intelligence platform, we have lots

No More Reviews in Google Play App Descriptions
Posted on March 13th, 2015
Google recently updated their Google Play guidelines with one notable change:
