| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.01.2010 | iPhone App Piracy Reaches $450 Million? Doubtful | According to an independent analysis performed by investment-watching blog 24/7 Wall St., Apple’s iTunes App Store has lost $450 million due to iPhone app piracy since it opened for business back in July of 2008. Although that number sounds... |
| 04.01.2010 | Weeks after Marrying Pinch Media, Flurry Gets in Bed with comScore and Starts Revenue Machine | Flurry Analytics has been real busy this holiday season. They recently merged with Pinch Media to create the biggest (in terms of user base) mobile analytics platform on the market. Today, Flurry is announcing a partnership with comScore, I... |
| 22.12.2009 | Flurry and Pinch Media to create mobile analytics powerhouse | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Two analytics startups, Flurry and Pinch Media, are announcing a merger today as they try to create a mobile data analytics leader. Whi... |
| 22.12.2009 | Flurry and Pinch Media to create mobile analytics powerhouse | Two analytics startups, Flurry and Pinch Media, are announcing a merger today as they try to create a mobile data analytics leader. While Flurry has been focused on e-commerce, Pinch Media was focused on ad optimization. Together the compan... |
| 16.10.2009 | iPhone app piracy numbers show low conversion rate | reader comments 58 with 48 posters participating
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Pinch Media added code to its Pinch Analytic API last June that allowed for the detection of jailbroken devices as well as ... |
| 29.08.2009 | Rising to the Top: 5 ways indie developers succeed on the App Store | It’s no secret: there’s some Benjamins to be made on the App Store. In fact, the App Store is now a $2.4 billion dollar per year business, according to AdMob’s monthly mobile metrics report. Here’s another fun fact you probably already know... |
| 16.08.2009 | Dear iPhone Users: Your Apps are Spying on You | Recently, Palm came under fire when programmer Joey Hess discovered the Pre’s smartphone OS was sending users’ GPS locations back to Palm on a daily basis. Although this information was disclosed in the company’s privacy policy, the majorit... |
| 08.07.2009 | Next-gen iPod touch already showing up in usage logs | reader comments 6 with 6 posters participating
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Apple is likely to release a new iPod touch model this September that incorporates hardware improvements introduced with the ... |
| 06.05.2009 | Just How Much Money Can Free iPhone Apps Make? Quite A Bit | Earlier this year Pinch Media released a report on the state of the App Store, describing some of the trends it had seen as developers tried to monetize their apps. The verdict: advertising on free applications simply can’t match the payoff... |
| 01.04.2009 | The Android Market is a churn machine | MocoNews yesterday got some critical information from T-Mobile USA about Google's Android Market, the most interesting of which is the average G1 user's voracious consumption of Apps.
According to the report, 40 million apps have been downl... |
| 19.03.2009 | Kontagent brings analytics to Facebook Connect for the iPhone | Another piece of the Facebook developer ecosystem has arrived on the iPhone: Advanced analytics software made by Kontagent. Facebook developers moving to the iPhone, as well as existing iPhone developers, can now get the benefit of the comp... |
| 25.02.2009 | iPhone App Store Secrets | Our portfolio company Pinch Media posted this presentation they made at the New York iPhone Developers Meetup. There’s some great data in here and every iPhone app developer should take a second and go through the deck. The data on free vs ... |
| 25.02.2009 | Pinch Media’s iPhone App Store Secrets | There is a great post up on the Pinch Media blog that links to a presentation they did for an IPhone user’s group here in New York.
Pinch Media provides analytics for several hundred applications in the iPhone app store. Between them, thos... |
| 19.02.2009 | Pinch Media Data Shows The Average Shelf Life Of An iPhone App Is Less Than 30 Days | There may be more than 20,000 iPhone apps out there that have been downloaded more than 500 million times, but what is the average shelf life of each app? Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media, offers some stats based on the 30 million+ download... |
| 30.01.2009 | Friday Apple Links: Keyboard Pretension Edition | reader comments 9 with 9 posters participating, including story author
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If you haven't gotten your Apple fix yet for the end of January, take a look at some of these morsels... |
| 29.01.2009 | Greystripe Hits 140 Million Mobile "AdverGame" Downloads | Mobile game ad network Greystripe has hit 140 million ad-supported game downloads thanks to iPhone users. In the fourth quarter of 2008 alone, it supported 30 million downloads. All of these ad-supported and Greystripe says that over 50 per... |
| 16.12.2008 | Omniture Brings Real-Time Analytics To iPhone Applications | Omniture is extending its SiteCatalyst measurement tool to native iPhone applications, enabling developers and marketers to gain insight on how users are interacting with their iPhone apps, based on real-time information. This should allow ... |
| 09.10.2008 | Capital Efficiency Finds Its Moment | My partner Albert calculated early last year that it takes about 1/10th the hardware, software, bandwidth, storage, and other expenses to build a web service compared to what it took in the 99/2000 time period. That was just as services lik... |
| 23.09.2008 | Building For Android and iPhone? New Analytics Tool From Medialets Lets You Track Apps On Both | From Medialets, the company that was first to launch with an ad platform that was like “doubeclick for iPhone apps,” has just announced a new version of their analytics tool for mobile apps. Previously available only to iPhone developers, t... |
| 19.09.2008 | Seedcamp, ’08: In a pack of copycats, two start-ups shine | Updated
Seedcamp is a European tech event that picks 20 promising European companies then gives a handful of winners £50,000 euro and three months in London to get their products ready for the next round. Last year, the judges chose five co... |
| 16.09.2008 | TC50 Startup Mobclix Now Offers Stats On Every iPhone App | Want to drill down to see how different iPhone apps are doing? You can click around iTunes and collect your own data, or you can visit the Application Ranking section of Mobclix and see the breakdown of iPhone apps in each category. Paid ap... |
| 20.08.2008 | The human piece of the venture equation | Founding teams are young and inexperienced, mostly by design
We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by t... |
| 19.08.2008 | The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation | We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 ... |
| 15.08.2008 | Daily usage headed down as Apps Store grows | iPhone boredom or expected trend? Less than one in five downloaded apps may be used daily
No doubt people are downloading more apps than ever from the iPhone store.
But as the number of downloads soars past 60 million, the percentage of tho... |
| 14.08.2008 | GotApps Brings Alerts To Apple's App Store | One of the biggest problems with Apple’s still-fledgling App Store is that there’s no efficient way to sift through new applications. While users can view a list of the most recently uploaded apps, the list can be overwhelming and unorganiz... |
| 11.08.2008 | Here comes the App Store ecosystem | Apple's coat tails in mobile software will be worth riding, giving iPhone platform an early boost
Who said Steve Jobs didn't learn a few things from Bill Gates?
Gates' company grew after he turned PC makers into his allies by convincing the... |
| 09.08.2008 | Are You In College In NYC And Thinking About Working At A Startup? | Greg Yardley, founder/CEO of our portfolio company Pinch Media tells the following story about graduating from college and facing the career question:
When I finished school, I had a MA in Russian history and absolutely no idea what to do w... |
| 28.07.2008 | PinchMedia and JumpTap partner up for iPhone apps ad network | A newly formed partnership between iPhone analytics firm Pinch Media and mobile search and ad company JumpTap may connect brand-name advertisers with iPhone application users.
The partnership, announced at MobileBeat, could be a formidable ... |
| 18.07.2008 | These 10 companies will demo on MobileBeat stage | After some tough decision-making, we’ve settled on the ten companies to present to the full audience on stage at MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24.
They’ve beat out far more than a hundred companies after several rounds of selection. They a... |
| 15.07.2008 | Free Apps No Longer Dominating iPhone App Store. | When the iPhone App Store launched last Friday along with the new 3G iPhone, free apps made up 24 percent of the 552 apps available. In other words, the most popular price point was free. The rest of the apps ranged in price from 99 cents t... |
| 11.07.2008 | The iPhone app ecosystem | What we can learn from the Facebook app ecosystem
I've been thinking about this question for the past six months as we have been eagerly awaiting the launch of the iPhone app store and with it, the iPhone app ecosystem. IPhone apps have bee... |
| 11.07.2008 | What can we learn about the iPhone app ecosystem from the Facebook app ecosystem? | I’ve been thinking about this question for the past six months as we have been eagerly awaiting the launch of the iPhone app store and with it, the iPhone app ecosystem.
iPhone apps have been out there since the emergence of jailbreak but i... |
| 10.07.2008 | Apple’s App Store Launches | As the hype around the iPhone 3G launch tomorrow is kicking into high gear, Apple has released a new version of iTunes, which includes the long-awaited App Store. According to Pinch Media, there are currently 552 applications available in t... |
| 10.07.2008 | iPhone App Store Has Launched (Updated) | Update: The iPhone 2.0 software is now available.
Update 2: Top apps by number of downloads is here.
Apple’s iPhone App Store is now live, several hours ahead of its rumored 9 am PST launch. To access it, download iTunes 7.7 here. Once iTun... |
| 01.07.2008 | AppLoop Tracks iPhone Users, Advertises Accordingly | With the launch of the new competitively priced 3G iPhone just around the corner, there has been a lot of speculation about the effect it will have on the mobile market. Since the iPhone has released its SDK, and added GPS capability, it is... |
| 29.05.2008 | Pinch Media Releases Free Analytics for iPhone SDK | A small and very new startup out of New York called Pinch Media is building tools for iPhone and iPod touch developers.
The first of these tools is an analytics offering called Pinch Analytics, released just today for free, that will track ... |
| 29.05.2008 | Pinch Media – Investing on a New Platform | New platforms create new opportunities. One would think that established vendors with big balance sheets, big investments in R&D, and established brands would quickly move onto a meaningful new platform, using their market power to prev... |
| 29.05.2008 | Pinch Media | We’ve made an early stage investment in a company called Pinch Media which launched their first tool for iPhone developers today – free analytics for iPhone apps.
My partner Brad, who has joined Pinch’s board, posted our reasons for making ... |