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This week’s headlines from across Inside Network

by M. Dorn on July 23, 2012 · 0 comments

A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between July 16 and 21.

Inside Mobile Apps

Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.

Monday, July 16

  • Fish Tales evolves into Fantastic Fishies
  • Zynga’s David Ko opens up about Zynga’s mobile publishing plans

Tuesday, July 17

  • Crickler provides a new take on crosswords
  • Autodesk acquires Socialcam for $ 60M
  • Kiip raises $ 11 Million in Series B round of funding lead by Relay Ventures
  • Appcelerator introduces private cloud services to court bigger developers, enterprise clients
  • Diptic, Pyramid Run, Guess the Character! and more on this week’s top free iOS Apps

Wednesday, July 18

  • Analytics company Apsalar moves into advertising with ApEngage, now reaches 225 million users
  • InMobi confirms MMTG Labs acquisition
  • Inside Network Job Board: nWay, 12 Gigs, GREE and more
  • StartApp passes 150M downloads of its Android-only, bundled search software
  • How Miniclip went from web portal to 100M mobile downloads
  • Richard Garriott’s Ultimate RPG is spiritual successor to Ultima on mobile and social platforms
  • Tiny Wings returns with new 2.0 update

Thursday, July 19

  • Pocket raises $ 5M Series B to expand its ‘save for later’ services
  • Germany’s Bigpoint closes mobile division, lays off 29
  • New hires in mobile: Square, Gameloft and EA PopCap
  • Armor Games’ latest challenges players to Follow the Rabbit
  • Adfonic: Android overtakes iOS to become most popular platform for mobile advertisers
  • Amazing Alex, Tiny Wings, Minecraft and more on this week’s top paid iOS apps

Friday, July 20

  • CSR Racing, The Tribez, Fieldrunners 2 and more on this week’s top grossing iOS apps
  • Google acquires popular third-party email client Sparrow
  • GREE to open Vancouver studio, will focus on innovation, new concepts
  • Facebook adds iOS and Mac development studio Acrylic to design team
  • Deity Wars enters the card-battling fray
  • Amazing Alex, Shadowgun and more on this week’s Android app charts
  • Mobile app news roundup: mobile Mozilla, Apple fixes and Transformers heads to Mobage

Saturday, July 21

  • Inside Network Job Board: nWay, 12 Gigs, Playsino and more

Inside Social Games

Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.

Monday, July 16

  • SimCity Social tops this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
  • Hotel Casino review
  • Zynga’s David Ko opens up about Zynga’s mobile publishing plans

Tuesday, July 17

  • Grace Brown review

Wednesday, July 18

  • Applifier debuts Facebook-only video ad network for game trailers
  • SongPop barely outpaces SimCity Social as this week’s fastest-growing Facebook game by DAU
  • Inside Network Job Board: nWay, 12 Gigs, Playsino and more
  • Crazy Penguin Wars review
  • Richard Garriott: Mobile and social platforms represent “third grand era of computer games”

Thursday, July 19

  • The Sims Social and Zynga Slingo are this week’s gainer and loser among July’s Top 25 Facebook games
  • CastleVille lead designer founds new mobile studio, BonusXP
  • Birdopolis review
  • New hires in social games: Social Point, PlaySpace and Zynga

Friday, July 20

  • GameDuell: Cross-platform players monetize 25% more than those on a single platform
  • King’s Bounty lords over this week’s emerging Facebook games
  • Hollywood Slots review
  • Outernauts is now live on Facebook
  • Social games news roundup: Zynga, Zynga and more Zynga

Saturday, July 21

  • Inside Network Job Board: nWay, 12 Gigs, Big Viking Games and more

Inside Facebook

Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.

  • Monday, July 16
  • Less than 10 percent of traffic to Facebook pages comes from outside Facebook.com
  • Facebook hires team behind mobile bookmarking service Spool
  • New mobile ‘action links’ allow users to take specific actions in other apps without leaving Facebook
  • Facebook creates duplicate page finder tool for admins to report unofficial pages

Tuesday, July 17

  • Autodesk acquires No. 1 Facebook app Socialcam for $ 60M
  • Extole creates new marketing apps that promote word of mouth using Open Graph
  • Facebook brings activity log to mobile devices so users can delete stories and check privacy settings
  • Viralheat launches free conversation management and publishing tool to serve small businesses and agencies
  • Facebook platform industry hires: Conversocial, FreshBuzz, Nanigans, Shoutlet, TBG Digital and Wildfire

Wednesday, July 18

  • Facebook ads in desktop and mobile News Feed outperform Twitter promoted accounts

Thursday, July 19

  • Facebook bug leads Lululemon and more pages to post fake offers; other pages can’t create offers at all
  • Facebook testing new Pinterest-inspired design for app stories in News Feed
  • ShareThis brings social reader functionality to new sharing widget for publishers
  • Xbox, EA Sports, Gamestop, and Lego among others in this week’s most talked about pages in games and toys
  • SimCity Social, Spotify, SongPop, TripAdvisor, Instagram and more on this week’s top growing apps by DAU
  • Facebook to introduce sponsored results in search typeahead

Friday, July 20

  • Facebook adds iOS and Mac development studio Acrylic to design team
  • Facebook hires: technology partners, analysts, platform operations, growth, more
  • Facebook careers: natural language processing, privacy, media solutions, more
  • Custom tabs, Ghosts of Mistwood, Jewel Kingdom, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
  • Facebook roundup: stock price and customer satisfaction down, Washington to offer voter registration app, Zuckerberg visits Walmart HQ and more

 


Source: Inside Social Games

Custom tabs, Ghosts of Mistwood, Jewel Kingdom, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU

by M. Dorn on July 21, 2012 · 0 comments

Topping our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week was Custom Tab | Arrow #3, a page tab application builder from Woobox. The rest of our list was made up mostly of games, though sports social reader GiveMeFootball and social networking app Path

We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew from between 120,000 and 390,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook.

Top Gainers This Week

Name MAU Gain Gain %
1.  Custom Tab | Arrow #3 900,000 +390,000  + 76%
2.  Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood 920,000 +370,000  + 84%
3.  Jewel Kingdom 980,000 +370,000  + 61%
4.  Subway Surfers 900,000 +300,000  + 50%
5.  TDP4 Team Battle 410,000 +200,000  + 95%
6.  Panda Jam 860,000 +180,000  + 30%
7.  www-bing-int1.com 400,000 +170,000  + 74%
8.  Tab Builder: Like 590,000 +170,000  + 40%
9.  The Fan Machine 670,000 +170,000  + 34%
10.  Hollywood Slots 510,000 +150,000  + 42%
11.  Static HTML… [Tenth Tab] 560,000 +150,000  + 37%
12.  Ruby Blast 650,000 +150,000  + 35%
13.  Botkin’s Hidden Cove 830,000 +150,000  + 22%
14.  GiveMeFootball 890,000 +150,000  + 20%
15.  Lost Legacies 220,000 +140,000  + 175%
16.  Crazy Penguin Wars 610,000 +140,000  + 30%
17.  Path 680,000 +140,000  + 26%
18.  Custom Tab | Arrow #2 950,000 +140,000  + 17%
19.  Winner Super Slots 410,000 +130,000  + 46%
20.  WhoSay 280,000 +120,000  + 87%

 

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned next week for our look at the top weekly gainers by monthly active users on Monday.


Source: Inside Facebook

CSR Racing, Ghosts of Mistwood, The Ville, GifBoom and more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps

by M. Dorn on July 16, 2012 · 0 comments

Mobile app CSR Racing led our list of emerging applications by monthly active users, nearly doubling its total MAU this week.

We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew between 100,000 and 460,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook.

Top Gainers This Week

Name MAU Gain Gain %
1.  CSR Racing 940,000 +460,000   + 96%
2.  Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood 500,000 +290,000   + 138%
3.  The Ville 490,000 +278,233   + 131%
4.  GifBoom 660,000 +190,000   + 40%
5.  The Sims FreePlay 960,000 +180,000   + 23%
6.  Via.Me 490,000 +170,000   + 53%
7.  AllAppforplay 170,000 +163,496   + 2,514%
8.  Crazy Penguin Wars 470,000 +160,000   + 52%
9.  GiveMeFootball 740,000 +160,000   + 28%
10.  Custom Tab | Arrow #2 810,000 +160,000   + 25%
11.  Woobox Custom Tab | Arrow #4 620,000 +150,000   + 38%
12.  Static HTML… [Tenth Tab] 410,000 +140,000   + 52%
13.  Tab Builder: Like 420,000 +140,000   + 50%
14.  Ruby Blast 480,000 +130,000   + 45%
15.  AppWebdDee.Com 600,000 +130,000   + 28%
16.  Get Dating 220,000 +120,000   + 120%
17.  www-bing-int1.com 230,000 +110,000   + 92%
18.  UFC.TV App 230,000 +110,000   + 92%
19.  Panda Jam 660,000 +110,000   + 20%
20.  Polls Survey tab for Pages with TradableBits 160,000 +100,000   + 167%

 

No. 2 was Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood, which reached 500,000 MAU this week. Zynga’s The Ville is just short of the milestone, coming in at No. 3. Zynga’s Ruby Blast came in at No. 14.

No. 4 was GifBoom, an app for iPhone and Android allows users to create animated gifs and share them on the social network. No. 6 Via.Me is another mobile app, this one allows users to share both photos and videos.

No. 8 Crazy Penguin Wars is a multiplayer shooter game for the Facebook canvas. No. 9 GiveMeFootball is a social reader app for Football news. No. 18 UFC.TV App is a website integration for the UFC, which uses Facebook login but not Open Graph, as it doesn’t appear to share user activity to Timeline.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned next week for our look at the top weekly gainers by monthly active users on Monday, the top weekly gainers by daily active users on Wednesday, and the top emerging apps on Friday.


Source: Inside Facebook

TripAdvisor, Bubble Safari, SongPop, SimCity Social, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU

by M. Dorn on July 10, 2012 · 0 comments

TripAdvisor again takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week.

Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 540,000 and 2.1 million MAU, based on our AppData tracking service.

Top Gainers This Week

Name MAU Gain Gain %
1.  TripAdvisor™ 35,300,000 +2,100,000   + 6%
2.  Bubble Safari 30,000,000 +1,900,000   + 7%
3.  SongPop 7,200,000 +1,800,000   + 33%
4.  SimCity Social 1,900,000 +1,330,000   + 233%
5.  Terra 13,400,000 +1,100,000   + 9%
6.  Static HTML: iframe tabs 22,400,000 +1,100,000   + 5%
7.  Pedido de Amigos 5,000,000 +1,100,000   + 28%
8.  Instagram 22,200,000 +1,000,000   + 5%
9.  Dragon City 3,500,000 +800,000   + 30%
10.  Static HTML… [Fourth Tab] 3,700,000 +800,000   + 28%
11.  Glassdoor 4,500,000 +800,000   + 22%
12.  Zoosk 10,300,000 +800,000   + 8%
13.  Static HTML… [Third Tab] 4,800,000 +700,000   + 17%
14.  Static HTML… [Second Tab] 8,100,000 +700,000   + 9%
15.  TA Hare/Carrot™ 760,000 +680,000   + 850%
16.  Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM 1,400,000 +660,000   + 89%
17.  Static HTML… [Eighth Tab] 1,100,000 +610,000   + 124%
18.  Static HTML… [Fifth Tab] 1,900,000 +600,000   + 46%
19.  Samsung Mobile 18,200,000 +600,000   + 3%
20.  My Photos+ 1,100,000 +540,000   + 96%

 

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top weekly gainers by daily active users on Wednesday, and the top emerging apps on Friday.


Source: Inside Facebook

Coke Zero, Oreo and Dunkin’ Donuts lead this week’s most talked about pages in food and beverage

by M. Dorn on July 7, 2012 · 0 comments

Coke Zero is one page leading the list of weekly gainers for the People Talking About This metric among food and beverage merchandise pages.

The top 10 pages gaining People Talking About This saw increases between about 60,000 and over 200,000 engagements. We compile this list with our PageData tool, which tracks page growth across Facebook.

# Name People Talking About Daily Growth Weekly Growth 
1   BrahmaSeleção 618,994 -2,328 +204,176
2   Three Chefs 121,093 +5,041 +103,712
3   Halls Brasil 388,260 -1,999 +98,210
4   Coca-Cola Zero 118,340 -3,119 +89,138
5   Dunkin’ Donuts 212,396 +28,448 +81,340
6   BrahmaFla 405,286 +16,810 +73,906
7   Barcel Mexico 101,648 +8,559 +73,276
8   Pepsi India 109,700 -1,770 +61,306
9   Activia Brasil 80,552 +3,377 +58,849
10   Oreo 771,775 -222,258 +56,210

Popular beverage Coke Zero has seen substantial daily growth from a movie tie-in with The Amazing Spider-Man, released this week. As seen in the graph below, the page has grown steadily from an influx of new likes which can be seen in green. The growth has occurred throughout the month of June and is likely the result of ads bought before the movie’s release.

Oreo has seen a huge increase in weekly growth thanks to publicity received for a post featuring a rainbow Oreo. The post has gone viral with many users praising Oreo for their support of gay pride. Coinciding with San Francisco’s Pride Parade weekend, the company has strategically engaged with a very responsive audience – gay rights activists.

Visit PageData to see more about the top talked about pages among retail and consumer merchandise, as well as other categories.


Source: Inside Facebook

SongPop continues its chart-topping performance with this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU

by M. Dorn on July 5, 2012 · 0 comments

FreshPlanet’s SongPop is continuing to outperform the other fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users, its 400,000 DAU this week (a 27 percent gain) let it take the top spot on the list.

EA’s SimCity Social debuted on the list this week, taking the No. 2 spot with 329,400 DAU for a 54,900 percent gain. Konami’s Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM came in at No. 3, bringing in 150,000 DAU for a 188 percent increase. Social Point’s Dragon City snagged the No. 4 position with a 16 percent growth of 110,000 DAU. Finally, King.com’s Pyramid Solitaire Saga grabbed the No. 5 spot with its 100,000 DAU, up 8 percent.

Five other game on the list show gains greater than 100 percent. Hangman was up by 20,000 MAU, a 200 percent increase. LottoRace’s eponymous LottoRace took in 19,997 DAU, a 666,567 percent growth. IGG’s Spanish-language role-playing game GodsWar: El Mejor 3D Juego De Fantasía (“GodsWar: The Best 3D Fantasy Game”) grew by 16,000 DAU, a 400 percent growth. IGG had another RPG appear on the list: The recently-launched Moonlight Online bringing in 13,000 DAU for a 186 percent gain. Finally, the Spanish-language pet sim ¿Qué piensas acerca de mí? (“What do you think about me?”) grew by 12,000 DAU, a 150 percent increase.

Name DAU Gain Gain,%
1.  SongPop 1,900,000 +400,000 + 27%
2.  SimCity Social 330,000 +329,400 + 54,900%
3.  Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM 230,000 +150,000 + 188%
4.  Dragon City 790,000 +110,000 + 16%
5.  Pyramid Solitaire Saga 1,400,000 +100,000 + 8%
6.  Panda Jam 140,000 +60,000 + 75%
7.  Jewels of the Amazon 270,000 +40,000 + 17%
8.  Bubble Atlantis 150,000 +30,000 + 25%
9.  Gardens of Time 860,000 +30,000 + 4%
10.  Mirrorball Slots 210,000 +20,000 + 11%
11.  Baseball Heroes 270,000 +20,000 + 8%
12.  Bubble Saga 780,000 +20,000 + 3%
13.  Hangman 30,000 +20,000 + 200%
14.  Games on Mindjolt 370,000 +20,000 + 6%
15.  LottoRace 20,000 +19,997 + 666,567%
16.  GodsWar: El Mejor 3D Juego De Fantasía 20,000 +16,000 + 400%
17.  Moonlight Online (PH) – Best 3D 20,000 +13,000 + 186%
18.  ¿Qué piensas acerca de mí? 20,000 +12,000 + 150%
19.  Jewel Kingdom 90,000 +10,000 + 13%
20.  The Price Is Right Slots 230,000 +10,000 + 5%

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.

Read our reviews of…

  • Song Pop
  • SimCity Social
  • Dragon City
  • Panda Jam
  • Jewels of the Amazon
  • Gardens of Time
  • Mirrorball Slots
  • Baseball Heroes
  • Moonlight Online


Source: Inside Social Games

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