Alibaba Invests $120 Million into Kabam and More of the Latest News

What has been happening in the last two weeks in mobile? Once again, we're bringing you the latest in mobile news, both from AppLift and the global mobile industry.

App Store Stats Bonanza

We all love stats. And, at AppLift, working within and for the mobile industry, we love App Store stats. In a recent blog post, PocketGamer looked at the distribution

The Asian Beat #3: 5 Best Practices for Cracking the Japanese Mobile Games Market

On paper at least, Japan looks as though it should be the world’s most lucrative mobile games market. A Distimo report called Asia: The Leading App Market in the

Mobile Industry Exposed: Newzoo

In a bid to shed some light onto the world of mobile, games and advertising, over the coming weeks (once a fortnight) we are putting the spotlight on key

Google will Begin Labeling Free-to-Play Games Paid and More of the Latest News

It's here again: the AppLift newsreel, summarizing the last two weeks in AppLift and mobile games industry news. This time we have five highlights in the form of a

The Global Mobile Games Landscape Reloaded (infographic)

In October 2013 we published our first Global Mobile Games Landscape infographic, sharing data on the state of the mobile industry from global game market research company Newzoo. Now,

Mobile Predicted to Grow by 83 Percent This Year and Other Mobile News of the Fortnight

Once again, it’s time for the latest mobile news, including this week's exciting announcement from AppLift and a video of our CRO Jean-Philippe being interviewed by PocketGamer at PG

AppLift Invests 7-Digit Funding In PubNative, The First API-Based Publisher Platform For Native Advertising

Yesterday PubNative, the first API-based publisher platform 100% focused on native ads, announced that it had raised a 7-digit seed-funding figure from AppLift. We would like to take this

The Asian Beat #2: 5 Winning Moves for Mobile Games Advertisers in South Korea

Welcome to our second episode in our Asian Beat series!South Korea is a mammoth opportunity for mobile game publishers. As we mentioned in the first episode of Asian Beat, South

App Retention Rates Have Risen 13 Percent Since 2011 and Other Mobile News of the Fortnight

It's that time again. Here's our fortnightly update of news of, and insights into, all things mobile. As well as the latest Apple and Android news, we've packed into

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Ad-Based Mobile Monetization

A few weeks ago we published a handy cheat sheet which featured the most important metrics to monitor for mobile game publishers in the fields of user acquisition, retention,

Apple Begins Rejecting Apps with Incentivized Actions and Other Mobile News of the Fortnight

What’s been going on in mobile the last two weeks? The short answer: a lot. Once again though, the slightly longer and more useful answer can be found below,

Apple and WWDC14: A New Era of Analytics and Attribution

A couple of days ago, in our summary of the WWDC14 keynote presentation, we wrongfully stated that we would have liked to see Apple announce more transparency and more

The Asian Beat: The South Korean Mobile Games Market, One of the Most Active In the World

Welcome to our first episode of our Asian Beat series!In this first issue we investigate the current state of the South Korean mobile games market. In particular, we look

iOS 8 for Mobile Marketers: What We Liked, and What We Would Have Liked to See

Yesterday, Apple held the keynote presentation of its annual WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) in San Francisco. The company announced a myriad of new products and features, including iOS 8,

The App Store Offers Promo Codes For IAP and Other Mobile News of the Fortnight

The links are back! From now on we will select the main stories, facts, figures and charts of the two weeks that were.Welcome to Mobile News of the Fortnight!

App Annie Acquires Distimo

Big news! Today app store analytics company App Annie announced that it had acquired its competitor Distimo in the wake of an additional founding round of $17 million, bringing

The links you shouldn’t miss will be back…and better!

Today we won't publish the "5 links you shouldn't miss" as we have done over the past months.However sad the news, there is one good reason for it: we