I have a finance app on the store (Budgets & Bill Tracking), and I have been tracking downloads, position and ranking since 2009. I also developed an app for the world cup which reached position number 2 and based on this I decided to start tracking each category. Here are my findings. If you have more info or need to correct this please go ahead. Thanks
Paid US
Category | Position | Downloads
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Finance 1-5 200+
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Sport 1-5 300+
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Entertainment 20 750+
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Reference 1-5 500+
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Music 1-6 600+
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Education 1 700+
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Utility 25 700+
Free US
Finance 15-20 1500+
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Music 70 500+
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PS. I only listed us, because currently there are about 25 millions iphones in the us, and the other 25 are distributed around the rest of the world. Also major competitors such as UK and AU did not push this numbers as much as the US.
My understanding is that it is tied directly to downloading data. I have seen that as my app gets more or less downloads, I go up or down in the rankings. However it's not just about you, of course, if other people go down then you will go up.
I've reached #3 paid sports with 250 d/l. I'm currently in top 5 sports with ~200 d/l.
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Originally Posted by Theappguys
I have a finance app on the store (Budgets & Bill Tracking), and I have been tracking downloads, position and ranking since 2009. I also developed an app for the world cup which reached position number 2 and based on this I decided to start tracking each category. Here are my findings. If you have more info or need to correct this please go ahead. Thanks
Paid US
Category | Position | Downloads
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Finance 1-5 200+
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Sport 1-5 300+
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Entertainment 20 750+
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Reference 1-5 500+
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Music 1-6 600+
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Education 1 700+
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Utility 25 700+
Free US
Finance 15-20 1500+
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Music 70 500+
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PS. I only listed us, because currently there are about 25 millions iphones in the us, and the other 25 are distributed around the rest of the world. Also major competitors such as UK and AU did not push this numbers as much as the US.
Ranking is not as simple as your one day sales. Its a four day average, with the current day the most heavily weighed, and the three days before progressively less weighed.
Finance...................15-20......................1500+
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Music........................70................... .......500+
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Games (Overall)..........150.......................6,000 +
PS. doesnt the downloads for kids games seems a little low?
Actually you have the games too high (500). 500 gets you into the top 200 overall (according to mightybao). It only takes ~200 to get into top 200 games
I know games are more popular than utilities. and from a source they told me that iin order for you to be in the utilites you need like 800 a day.
that could be true, since sports and finances are not as popular and since i was in sports at number 2, i was getting 384 downloads daily.
finance i was getting like 150 at number 6
I do agree this varies by maybe 10-20 numbers but other than that i think we are ok. please copy and paste the table and make your changes as needed.
thanks everyone for your data. really appreciate it.
Anyone has data on entertainment, utilities, and business, im very interested on those since i am launching an app in those categories soon. Business apps are very expensive specially the ones on top.
Last edited by Theappguys; 09-01-2010 at 11:17 AM.
It's nice that everyone is sharing this info.
I got 617 ranking in games in US store with average 54 downloads.
By the way, you should be aware that these figures are seasonal. Summer sales will be a lot less than for Christmas.
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