Please, someone else verify that their sales for Dec 25th increased by 4 TIMES. I am reluctant to get excited as I fear ITunesConnect has messed up.
HOLY CRAP! I saw the same thing. 3x-4x across all titles! Most of the increase came from US + Canadian sales. Rest of the world was higher, but not significantly. Very Merry Christmas
Yep, exact same thing here. US sales went crazy, everthing else was maybe 2 or 3 times more. Thanks for the confirmation.... going out to party now.
Congrats guys, great to see you rewarded for your continued efforts. I hope that the post-Christmas sales will also be good for you, because of the gift cards people got.
Sales of my Solitaire City game increased by nearly 4 times on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and doubled on the days leading up to Christmas, so you'll be pleased to hear your sales data isn't a mistake ! Time to sing that horrible cheesy song ..... "Well I wish it could be Christmas .... every day When the kids start singing and the band begins to play-eeeay Oh I wish it could be Christmas every day-aaay So let the bells .... ring out ... for Christmas !!!!!!!" Apart from the expected increase in US sales, I saw huge sales increases in the UK and France and pretty decent pops in Germany and Italy. I found it interesting that sales from Japan, which have been fairly decent for me since I had my App's description translated into Japanese were fairly pathetic this festive season. I guess the Japanese don't celebrate Christmas ?
Hi, noticed here too a heavy x3/x4 bump during the christmas days. My free game Bubble Bang Lite went up from 5.000 downloads per day up to 20.000. The full version of Bubble Bang went up by x3.5 Regards Martin --- www.Decane.net
Arn, I saw you posted an article on Macrumors correlating the christmas day app sales to the increase in iPod Touches over the holidays. There's no question that some of the bump was from new owners, but I believe the real reason for the christmas day increases in the western countries was simply that people were sitting around at home and had more time to browse. This is the same as the "weekend effect" where most developers see a nice 20-30% increase, but multiplied by 10x over Christmas Having said that, I really hope to heck that I'm wrong and you're right but I don't think the sales data over the next few days will reflect that.
obviously, it's hard to say.... but since the browser market share is a percentage, you are then saying that people who stayed at home on Christmas for some reason browsed disproportionately more on their iPod Touches but than others did on their home computer or iPhone. it'll be interesting to see how the sales numbers trail out in the next few days/weeks. arn
I think there's no question that there were a lot more Touches given on christmas than iPhones. That makes complete sense, and hence the spike in web presence. I'm just saying that unless you have some other data indicating that the increase in app sales were largely attributable to the Touch, the christmas day increase was likely a general increase in sales across all platforms. Here are numbers for two of our games, with Dec 23rd sales being normalized to 1.0. I'm really hoping you're right and that we see a general increase in sales going forward. App1: Dec 24 1.05 Dec 25 2.28 Dec 26 1.79 Dec 27 1.44 Dec 28 1.43 App2: Dec 24 1.43 Dec 25 3.40 Dec 26 2.06 Dec 27 2.22 Dec 28 1.90 Dec 29's numbers will be telling since 27/28 was a weekend as well, and many people are back at work this week.
I just wanted to say that is pretty darn amazing. I bet lots of devs are really happy about the results.
no significant boost in sales for 1112 here, It's always been around 300-350/day WorldWide, with almost half of it from france(the only country where there has been significant exposure). there have been very few exposure in the US (or only bad publicity like IGN) so I don't think we'll make it abroad before episode 2 and our new project anyway glad to see there are more and more potential customers coming to the market !
stats for Scramboni Download rate for the week of 12/22-12/28 is 2.6 times higher than for the week of 12/1-12/7. And it's a free app, so yeah, nice bump in traffic.
Yep, looks pretty similar here. Our sales were already elevated somewhat on the 23rd due to an update so I included the numbers normalized against what we see as a "normal day" too. Code: Date: Normalized to Dec 23 Normalized to "a regular day" Dec 24 1.21 1.5 Dec 25 2.81 3.49 Dec 26 1.93 2.39 Dec 27 1.46 1.81 Dec 28 1.24 1.54 Dec 29 1.06 1.32 At least on our end it seem like it's falling back towards normalcy. But as said; will be interesting to see what happens within the next two weeks or so. We need a bit more time to get any stats about if things have risen overall or not.
