App Annie Releases Annual Index: 2013 Retrospective

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

WHAT: App Annie Releases Annual Index: 2013 Retrospective

WHEN: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 8:00 AM EST

DETAILS: App Annie, the worldwide leader in app store analytics, app rankings, and market intelligence, today released its Annual Index detailing trends in worldwide app downloads and revenue for 2013.

The report also includes lists of the Top 10 Apps and Top 10 Games by Download, Revenue and Publishers worldwide and for the top app markets: China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, US.

Some key insights from this 2013 Retrospective report include:

• BRIC countries and 5 other regions outpaced the top 3 superpowers in download and revenue growth.
• Both iOS App Store and Google Play experienced a surge in app store game revenue, vaulting them ahead of handhelds in 2013 for the first time ever.
• Freemium as a business model continued to be massively successful for a range of app categories in 2013, with games seeing the most money.
• Messaging apps transitioned into social messaging platforms, diversifying not only their product offerings, but also their revenue streams.

WHERE: Download the full report here: http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-retrospective-2013/.  

A second Index detailing worldwide and top markets app performance for the month of December 2013 can be found here:

Games - http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-games-december-2013/

Apps - http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-apps-december-2013/.  

ABOUT APP ANNIE: App Annie is reinventing business intelligence products for the apps and digital goods economy.  App Annie data and products are the industry standard, used by over 90 percent of the Top 100 grossing iOS publishers. More than 350,000 apps rely daily on App Annie analytics to track their downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews. The company is tracking the most downloads and revenues of any app or eBook store market data company to date, at over 33 billion downloads and more than US $8 billion in app store revenues. App Annie is a privately held global company of more than 150 employees with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Moscow, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Investors include e.ventures, Greycroft, IDG Capital Partners, Infinity Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. For more information, please visit http://www.appannie.com/, check out our blog, and follow @AppAnnie on Twitter.

SOURCE App Annie

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