In its latest report, Distimo is looking at the cross app store publishing, showing that most successful apps are available on multiple platforms and app stores. Here are the highlights:
- The average daily download volume among the top 100 most popular free applications in the United States is 4 million, while the average daily volumes in the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad are 82% and 20% respectively of Google Play. The app volumes in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and Amazon Appstore are fairly small compared to the other stores, and they are just 2% and 10%, respectively, of the volume of Google Play.
- The way download volume is distributed differs largely per app store: in most categories the free volume is higher in Google Play, while in others, the Apple App Store for iPhone wins, including among the largest categories like Games.
- The revenue among the top 200 highest grossing applications in the United States is distributed completely differently: the Apple App Store for iPhone is the largest with a daily turnover among the top 200 highest grossing applications of $1.9 million, followed by the Apple App Store for iPad (64%) and Google Play (29%).
- The total number of applications across the six major app stores is 1.3 million. There are 980K applications however, when looking at unique applications only. This means that every application is published 1.3 times on average across the different app stores. When looking at the top 300 applications, this cross-store ratio is much higher. For example, 89% of the top 300 free and top 300 paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad are also available in the Apple App Store for iPhone.
- The top 10 most successful cross-store publishers in April 2012 are Rovio Mobile Ltd., OMGPOP, Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft Corporation, Apple, ZeptoLab UK Limited, Disney and Adobe Systems Incorporated.
And you can get Distimo’s full report from here.