Weekends effect on app publication

[octaval]

I submitted an updated for an app that was published in the store for the first time two months ago. It was the fifth update to this app, and this time it was approved and ready for sale on a saturday (around 00:15 CET). This had a dramatic effect on sales (+1650%), an effect that I didn't see in previous updates that where not published in a weekend.

Does anyone else have noticed a similar effect?

[merlin]

Since recently app updates cause your app to be published in "new releases". Hence the sales bump.

If you made updates a couple of weeks ago, they didn't give you any additional exposure, therefore didn't directly help sales.

On a side note - publishing your app or updates during weekends is generally a good idea. Much more people browsing store, much fewer people publishing apps.