Last week, Distimo told how much the application needs to earn to be top grossing US; Pinkus resigned as director of Zynga; the first smartphones on Firefox OS appeared on sale. About this and much more – in our traditional digest.
MondayLast Monday began with the fact that Distimo told how much the app should bring in a day to get into the box office top 50 on the American App Store.
Let’s just say that this amount is a couple thousand dollars more than it takes to get to the very top of the Russian App Store.
On the same day, Kabam shared the financial success of Fast & Furious 6: The Game. For a month, the guys earned almost $ 2 million on the game based on the sixth part of the popular film.
We also presented last Monday a brief synopsis of the Big Fish report, read out at the recent White Nights. The main message of the lecture: monetization should be based on emotions.
Another big news was the increase in the minimum price tag for games and applications. So far, it has not affected the entire market, but everything is ahead.
TuesdayThe central event of last Tuesday was the reshuffle at Zynga.
Mark Pincus has given up his CEO chair to Microsoft’s Don Mattrick. According to rumors, the latter’s departure from the post of “chief Xbox” was a shock for Ballmer.
Thanks to the GREE report, it also turned out that almost half of the Japanese company’s total revenue from Android devices accounts for only two devices. This indicates, if not a reduction in the fragmentation of the market as a whole, then exactly that it is now possible to do with a much smaller number of devices for testing games than at least a year ago.
We also talked to the authors of Jungle Heat, an Android clone of Clash of Clans, from Mail.ru Group, asked them about the timing of the development of this project, as well as whether they are not afraid of lawsuits from Supercell.
Yes, AppFlood analysts have found that most mobile app developers and publishers believe that advertising companies are overcharging their services.
WednesdayThe South Korean social application KakaoTalk celebrated a significant event on this day – the registration of a hundred millionth user.
And as soon as it became known, the Chinese from WeChat immediately started bustling. They rolled out a press release, according to which the number of international subscribers of their messenger reached 70 million.
Yes, the Finns from Supercell also reported that Clash of Clans, the main box office hit of this year in the US and European markets, managed to enter the top ten on the Japanese App Store. Puzzle & Dragons and the translation of the game into Japanese helped.
ThursdayOn Thursday, out of curiosity, there was only our little material about why we don’t believe in Firefox OS.
FridayLast Friday, we finally returned to reviewing the App Store game novelties.
However, they did not return very successfully, there were few interesting projects. Moreover, we, for example, played all weekend in “Golem” from Artogon, which was also released that week, but which did not get into the review of new products.
On Friday, we also reflected on high fashion and mobile app design, and found out that in South Korea, billions of dollars are earned on games.
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