Loyal-user-acquisition costs up 21 percent on iOS in December

Downloads were up in December for the iOS App Store, but so were marketing costs.

Report: User acquisition costs for iOS shot up 30% last month

The cost of acquiring loyal users for iPhone and iPad apps shot up by almost a third last month as marketers started the big Christmas season push.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: GLaDOS in Pacific Rim, more Black Ops II zombies, and Portal on a calculator

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Fiksu introduces real-time bidding tracking to its user-acquisition tool

Fiksu's powerful tools will help mobile developers put their money where it'll do the most good.

iOS marketing gets more expensive in June

It's important for iOS advertisers to look at how expensive it is to gain new app users, especially if that price is rising, as it did in June.

Apple’s crackdown on app-ranking manipulation: Confused developers caught in the dragnet

In the battle between Apple’s police and the developers who cheat to boost their rankings, some innocent startups are finding themselves banned from the marketplace.

Relief for developers? Apple app downloads pick up in May while marketing costs dip

For much of this year, the number of downloads in the Apple App Store has dropped, and the cost of acquiring new users — the basic marketing that developers do in order to get people to buy apps or virtual …

iPhone app downloads plummeted in March while marketing costs held steady

The number of iPhone app downloads crashed in March, but the cost of marketing those apps held steady according to the latest Fiksu index report.

Mobile app downloads fell by 30 percent, or 2 million downloads, in March and returned …

Cost of mobile user acquisition creeps up in February

After a lull in January, the cost of acquiring new mobile users rose again in February, according to mobile marketing firm Fiksu.

That’s a sign that mobile app makers are placing more ads to promote their products in the Apple …

Cost of mobile user acquisition hits all-time high in December

The cost of getting new users to try out mobile apps is getting more and more expensive, hitting an all-time high on the Apple App Store in December.

The rush to promote mobile apps during the Christmas holidays caused mobile …

Apple’s iOS App Store had over 5M free app downloads per day in Nov.

Thanks to the iPhone 4S’ huge sales, Apple’s mega-popular iOS App Store reached an all-time high in November for free downloads coming from the Top 200 apps, according to marketing firm Fiksu.

In retrospect, it’s not terribly surprising when you …

Index shows that cost of acquiring new mobile users dipped slightly in July

The cost of acquiring a new user for iPhone mobile apps declined slightly in July, according to an index monitored by mobile app user acquisition platform Fiksu.

That means July was a less expensive month for mobile marketers looking to …