Viggle user numbers and revenue up
Social TV app Viggle saw registered user numbers increase 42% in the last three months of 2012, with another 0.24m new users in January taking its total to 1.86m. Monthly active users, meanwhile,...
View ArticleWooga revenue split 50/50 between mobile and web
Social games developer Wooga has revealed that its revenue is split 50/50 between web and mobile, just 14 months after launching its first mobile game, Diamond Dash. Wooga founder and CEO Jens Begemann...
View ArticleSocial networking apps starting to mature and bring in money, App Annie claims
Revenue growth for social networking apps has outpaced that of any other category over the last year according to App Annie’s latest Index report. The analyst said that in January 2013 the Social...
View ArticlePath makes money from 3.0, but is privacy the victim?
Social network Path launched version 3.0 of its iOS app last week but how it went depends very much on who you read and what you value: Wired slammed 3.0 as a “privacy disaster”, while TechCrunch...
View Article250m people play games on Facebook every month
Facebook revealed that more than 250m people play games on the social network every month, as it launched a Game Centre for developers. The Centre will help developers to maximise the impact of their...
View ArticleMag+ passes 1,000 apps, proclaims ‘there’s money in magazines’
Magazine-app publishing platform Mag+ claims there is still money to be made in “issue based publishing” and it has the stats to prove it. The company, which is celebrating passing the milestone of...
View ArticleIn-app purchase revenue to hit $26bn in 2017, as paid apps decline
Global revenue from in-app purchases will increase from $1.2bn at the end of 2012 to $26bn in 2017, according to Portio Research. The company adds that average in-app purchase revenue will leap from...
View ArticleMagzter signs deal with Hearst, claims 2m US users
Cloud-based magazine platform Magzter has agreed a deal with US publishing giant Hearst to carry all of its 21 magazines. PandoDaily reports that the Hearst deal follows similar agreements with...
View ArticleFoursquare pitches new data-based ad product to agencies
Foursquare is to allow advertisers to use its data when targeting ads bought through ad exchanges or networks. AdAge reports that Foursquare is currently pitching the new data-based ad product, its...
View ArticleTapjoy agrees ad deal with Kakao Games
Tapjoy has become the first US-based ad platform to partner with hugely successful Korean messaging service Kakao. The deal will permit developers on the Kakao Games platform to monetise their apps...
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