Monument Valley Team Reveals The Cost And Reward Of Making A Hit iOS Game Games and the formula that leads to their success can be a bit of a mystery, perhaps more so on mobile. One of 2014’s big hits, both in terms of critical and audience success, was Monument Valley by ustwogames. The isometric 3D puzzler was breathtaking in terms of its visual design and had nice mechanics, and it managed to earn nearly $6 million in revenue from over 2.4 million individual app sales. But the cost of development might surprise you, as well as the completion rate for the game’s relatively short story among paying players. Monument Valley counted 2,440,076 official sales, which includes iOS, Google Play, Amazon Paid and Amazon Free (via featuring) app installs. iOS drove the brunt of the official DLs (the Android launch also resulted in a piracy rate of around 95 percent, ustwo revealed previously), while Amazon’s free release drove about 4 times as many downloads as did its paid sales.
L'exploration de données Twitter 12 min read J'ai présenté dans mon article précédent les résultats de l'analyse du mot croisillon #TelAvivSurSeine, l'évènement au centre d'une polémique qui n'aurait jamais dû sortir des réseaux sociaux ni des cercles militants. Ces résultats sont le fruit d'une analyse rationnelle et distanciée des tweets associés à ce hashtag, analyse à la portée d'un informaticien suffisamment à l'aise sous UNIX et familier du langage de programmation Python. Je présenterai dans cet article les outils et techniques m'ayant permis d'effectuer cette analyse. visualiser l'évolution du nombre de tweets et retweets par heureidentifier les comptes les plus retweetés ou mentionnésidentifier les comptes ayant le plus tweeté ou retweetécomptabiliser les hashtags les plus utilisésidentifier les photos les plus diffuséesvisualiser le réseau social constitué des 15 comptes ayant le plus (re)tweeté et des 15 comptes les plus retweetés : Collecte des données Vous devez évidemment disposer d'un compte Twitter. Outils
The problem with App Store distribution in 3 charts Last week, Comscore released its US Mobile App Report, a comprehensive analysis of app usage in the United States. At a general level, the report highlights the continued shift in consumer digital media engagement from the desktop and mobile web to mobile apps and paints a relatively optimistic picture of the mobile ecosystem: Continued growth in mobile engagement, from 47% of total digital media time in March 2013 to 60% in June 2014;Relatively high median income levels for mobile device owners: $85k for iOS and $61k for Android, compared to a $51k median household income overall in the US and $55k for viewers of 'America's Funniest Home Videos';A healthy balance of age groups, especially on iPhone, where no single group represents more than 23% of the total ownership base or less than 16%. But one subtextual theme present throughout the report casts a bleak pall over the prospect of app store distribution becoming less concentrated in the hands of the largest developers. 1. 2. 3.
Pulsar: Social Media Monitoring | Social CRM | Enterprise Collaboration Mobile App Developers are Suffering — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking Mobile App Developers are Suffering “It’s just too saturated. The barriers to adoption and therefore monetization are too high. Said my friend as he described why his company stopped building native apps. My mind then wandered through this ‘saturation’ concept. Why is it that the mobile app medium has become saturated with apps while the mobile web is still capable of absorbing more websites? How Bad is the Mobile App Ecosystem? At Branch, we’ve created the deep linking standard for app developers that helps companies drive growth and re-engagement to their business. I took a look at the breakdown of relative traffic (measured in relative total rankings) to the top 1000 non-games in the iOS App Store and the results are frightening. As you can see, as you approach even the 10th most popular app (Skype), it’s a small fraction of the traffic seen by the top app (Facebook). Now, take a step back. This would indicate that the App Store became saturated back in 2008 when we hit 1000 apps.
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