Do you want your app to be included in the top ten free on the American App Store? You will need 54 thousand downloads daily to get into it, according to App Annie.
According to data published last night by App Annie specialists, it takes 13 thousand daily downloads to enter the top 100 free iPhone apps, and 54 thousand downloads to get into the top ten.
These figures are quite comparable with the data that Distimo presented a little earlier. Recall, according to her information, in order to get into the American top 25 in May of this year, more than 38 thousand downloads were needed daily.
Yes, last December Distimo reported on the need to overcome the threshold of 80 thousand downloads to get into the top ten. This figure is significantly more than the current 54 thousand. But here’s what you need to remember, then a solid part of these downloads were provided by bot farms, which Apple began to fight only this spring.
The fight against them is possible and has led to the fact that the current number of downloads is approximately at the same level as it was last year. And, of course, it is less than the peak figures of December 2011, when users and bots downloaded 200 top iPhone applications 6.04 million times a day.
Anyway, it is clear that thanks to the release of the iPhone 5 and the imminent appearance of the iPad mini on the market, by the end of this year, the number of downloads in general, as well as the number of downloads required to get into the free top, will grow significantly.