Appscend / Mobile, Media and Real-time Insights

How updating your app can actually kill it

Appscend Team

Why do developers update apps? Let’s take a look at the most common reasons publishers update an app as they’re trying to build an engaging one. Adding or removing features Adding or removing [...]

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Workplace Apps to Help Your Employees Succeed

Appscend Team

Editor’s Note: This is a Guest Post courtesy of SocialMonsters.org Gone are the days when your work documents lived on your office computer, preventing you from doing significant amounts of work while out of the office. Today’s workplaces often adopt a culture that encourages being connected around the clock. The [...]

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Developers taking second screen gaming to new directions

Appscend Team

Let’s say welcome to this first generation of mobile-connected games. It seems that players are ready to incorporate their smartphone or tablet into the gaming experience. Among the most discussed industry trends at this summer E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles was the increasing focus towards second screen gaming [...]

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Mobile app opportunities in China better than the US market?

Appscend Team

According to Flurry Analytics, China became this year the country with the largest installed base of connected devices. There are 261,333,271 active smartphones and tablets in China – almost 25% of the entire worldwide mobile devices. Yes, China is the world’s biggest smart device market. China – world largest base of [...]

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How companion apps become TV’s best friend

Appscend Team

Let’s start with the facts. Most of our media time today is spent in front of a screen. Actually, we spend more and more of our media time in front of not just one, but multiple screens. It is what it is. The majority of tablet and smartphones owners use second [...]

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Explosive growth in app usage

Appscend Team

The use of mobile devices and apps is growing at a tempestuous pace. Smartphones play progressively important roles in people’s lives as mobile apps are used more than ever for entertainment, socializing, shopping and payment purposes. It’s a new change to our lifestyle, apps becoming each year more and more [...]

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Develop TV second screen apps and reap rewards

Appscend Team

Today there’s no surprise that the majority of media consumers are splitting their attention between TV and their smartphones and tablets, broadcasters seizing the opportunity to make apps integral to the TV experience. Viewer behavior has changed greatly these past years, shifting from passivity in front of the TV set to [...]

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Do people actually like gamified apps?

Appscend Team

It’s a crowded app world out there. Anything you can imagine, chances are there’s an app for it. In such a competitive mobile app industry, how do you develop a product that stands out? How do you keep users coming back? There could be many answers to that question, but one [...]

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Want to make money out of apps? Give them away for free

Appscend Team

The number of apps released for free, supported by an alternative monetization strategy is growing. Freemium __is here to stay. This business model has proven profitable. Why? People don’t like to pay for apps Mobile users spend more on upgrading freemium apps than on apps they can’t get for free. Listen smarter. The [...]

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Want to engage your mobile audience? Here’s what you need

Adrian Tudor

A couple of weeks ago I’ve talked about how to get your readers in love with your publishing app. The core idea was simple. Create an emotional stake for your mobile users, make the app as simple and fast to use as possible and give your readers and mobile users the possibility [...]

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