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Appers and downers - November 2013

The apps that leaped thousands of positions to reach the top 3 % of the global rankings (and slid down) are out!

Appers and downers - October 2013

We ran another review of the apps that soared or crashed in the App Store - here are the numbers for October.

Appers and downers - September 2013

Here is a close look at the apps that made the largest jumps to make it to the top ranks or fall between the cracks in the ecosystem last month.

Christian’s Top 5 Tips For Apps

The adeven team comes from an app development background and focus’s its strategy around providing the best business intelligence platform for app developers. Here are co-founder Christian’s top 5 tips to ensure your app flies at launch.

Footy Fever

Last night our tech guys were busy at work, fuelled by club-mate, when suddenly data spiked and something was goin’ on.

The apps we can’t live without

Technology makes life easier. Now, there are apps that wake us up, apps that help us stay fit and apps that help us catch the train on time.

Up in the clouds over app reviews

While some people are excited about cloud computing, we’re excited about word clouds, so excited, that in fact we have just launched cloud words for each sentiment analysis.

Will there be less romance this year on Valentine’s Day?

Either the best Valentine’s apps already exist or developers are turning to traditional roses to say ‘I Love You’ for Valentine’s Day as this year brings around half of last year’s new Valentine’s app into the App Store.

adeven gets to the heart of 24 million AppStore reviews

Just launched, apptrace’s sentiment analysis reveals which apps in the App Store are the most liked, the most addictive and which ones are the biggest crashers.

Appers and downers - a peek into the app ecosystem

Shooting up to the stars or drowning in the depths of the ocean? Powered by adeven’s apptrace, a free online tool that gives insights into AppStore analytics, this month’s appers and downers show the fastest moving apps in the global app ecosystem.

iOS 6 Appstore Ranking: The Smoke, The Fire and the Truth

With the launch of iOS 6, the AppStore was subject to some significant changes. Some apps suddenly lost their standing while other apps sat comfortably in the top ranks.

It comes as no surprise then that the rumours that Apple had changed its ranking algorithm were circulating faster than you can say ‘nanosecond’.

Inside “Zombie Land”

We recently launched our product apptrace, your one-stop-shop for mobile app tracking, with its release we discovered a significant amount of apps that go unnoticed, we called these “app zombies.”

The subject brought up a lot attention and questions on how we got to this number and why we are making this assumption. With that in mind, we would like to provide you some insight into our methodology and reasoning on the app zombie discovery and the iOS ecosystem.