Airship has acquired app store optimization specialist Gummicube for an undisclosed sum. Combining Airship and Gummicube makes sense, says Airship CEO and President Brett Caine, because marketers want greater insight and control over the full app marketing funnel, from discovery and download through to monetizing and retaining users.
The redesigned App Store in iOS 11 creates a challenging environment for mid-tail and long-tail app developers. Apple’s primary goal with the redesign, which came along with the release of its new operating system in September, is to “make discovering apps and games easier than ever before,” the company said. The revamped App Store store […]
Although Apple’s App Store is seven years old and has a worthy competitor in Google’s Play Store, the app store search and discovery ecosystem is stagnant, say many app store optimization (ASO) platforms. “When we look at the landscape, we see it like the early days of Internet, when search and discovery were a mess,” […]
App store discovery isn’t like finding a needle in a haystack. It’s more like finding a needle in a mountain of other needles. “It’s a challenge that’s always existed in the mobile space,” said Dave Bell, founder of Gummicube, a mobile analytics company that specializes in app store optimization (ASO). “It’s frustrating for developers, obviously, […]
