Who were the secret App Store winners of 2015?
summary
Collected Apple charts via harvest Apple RSS every two hours across 119 countries, storing top 200 snapshots (~2920 snapshots/year). Focused on iPhone USA and computes a per-day score = grossing rank − download rank, summed over the year. Finds games like Brave Frontier and Hit Rich with average download rank ~1100 but grossing rank ~50, so they earn far more per install. Top 20 list is dominated by slots and Asian JRPGs, showing high retention and unusually high ARPDAU.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08App Store charts data
- 3:17Top games of 2015
- 4:21Biggest publishers
- 5:06Hidden winners defined
- 6:14High-grossing low-download games
- 7:19Hidden winners by genre
- 8:02Summary
- 8:23Q&A
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