1）Distimo最新报告显示，今年9月份Supercell热门游戏《Clash of Clans》仍然占据iOS应用收益榜单之首，位居其后的分别是《Candy Crush Saga》、《Hay Day》、《Puzzle & Dragons》以及《Pet Rescue Saga》，King和Supercell分别有两款游戏进入前5名。

在Google Play平台上，由GungHo开发的《Puzzle & Dragons》则打败《Candy Crush Saga》，夺回了第一名宝座。

Market-Growth-September-2013(from Distimo)

与8月份相比，App Store与Google Play应用市场份额变化不大，前者占比65%，后者占比35%。

值得注意的是，在iOS平台，美国仍是《Clash of Clans》的主要收益来源，其次则是亚洲的日本和中国。《Clash of Clans》在亚洲市场表现强劲，而《Candy Crush Saga》在美国表现良好，但在亚洲却无力与Supercell相抗衡。

2）据mobile-ent报道，Rovio Entertainment日前宣布推出新款授权游戏《Angry Birds Go》，并与Puma子公司Brandon、Penguin Books、Mondelez、BIP、Fashion UK、Leomil和Tigerprint结成合作伙伴，将推出包括图书、糖果以及服装等新周边产品。

Angry Birds Go(from kotaku.com)

《Angry Birds Go》将于12月11日的伦敦品牌授权博览会亮相，届时将邀请粉丝在这款新赛车游戏中体验孩之宝Telepods玩具，允许玩家将新卡车传送到游戏中。

3）据Pocketgamer报道，墨西哥工作室Inode Entertainment（10人团队）在Nokia Store下载量已超过3亿次，其发布应用超过100款，其类型包括个性化应用、桌面应用和游戏，并已开始向Windows Phone平台进军。

Inode Logo(from developer.nokia)

4）据venturebeat报道，前Playfish伦敦工作室元老John Earner及其团队成员最近创立工作室Space Ape Games，并推出热门游戏《Samurai Siege》，该游戏上线仅9天就收获超过20万的日活跃用户，日常收益达5万美元。

Samurai Siege(from app111.com)

《Samurai Siege》开发历时8个月，曾针对新西兰和澳大利亚进行2个月的测试并进行调整，于本月初登陆iOS和Android平台，安装量已经超过70万次，约3-5%的玩家会花钱购买游戏中的道具。

该团队目前有18名核心成员，主要包括前Mind Candy首席技术官Toby Moore，前Playfish后端经理Simon Hade等人，其目标是打造世界最棒的手机战略游戏公司。

5）Nanigans最近报告（监测超过2000亿次的Facebook广告）指出，Facebook广告在iPhone平台的投资回报率比Android平台多1790%，Facebook广告在Android平台实际上是入不敷出的情况。

报告称去年Facebook桌面广告点击率达375%，总体回报率为152%。

Mobile-App-Install-Ads(from facebook-studio)

2013年前三个季度，iOS平台的每次点击收益（RPC）平均比Android平台多6.1倍，投资回报率（ROI）则比后者多17.9倍。

iOS平台上的广告能够为零售商带来比广告投入多162%的收益，而Android平台广告的收入比投入还少10%左右。

但值得注意的是，Facebook广告在这两个平台的成本却并没有多大差别，在iOS平台的每千人印象成本（CPM）为4.99美元，Android平台为4.87美元。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）Supercell’s superstar: Clash of Clans still the king of iOS

by Matthew Diener

On the day Supercell announced it was selling 51 percent of its business for a staggering $1.5 billion, analytics specialist released by Distimo revealed that the studio’s star title – Clash of Clans – remains top of the pile on iOS.

Supercell’s superstar again seized the number one spot for Top Grossing Apps on the App Store, followed sequentially by Candy Crush Saga, Hay Day, Puzzle & Dragons, and Pet Rescue Saga.

Once again, that’s two games in the top five for both King and Supercell.

Same old, same old

On Google Play, Puzzle and Dragons from GungHo – one of the two firms that’s just purchased a stake in Supercell – took back top spot from King’s Candy Crush Saga, which fell down to the second position.

That puts it just ahead of LINE Pokopang, Taming the Monster for Kakao and LINE: Free Calls & Messages.

Distimo also reports that the market share distribution did not change compared to August, and that Apple’s App Store still commands 65 percent of market compared to Google Play’s 35 percent.

Interestingly on the iOS front, Distimo notes that the United States remained the leading contributor to Clash of Clans’ revenue, followed by a strong Asian presence in Japan and China.

This performance in Asian markets ultimately gave Clash of Clans the edge over Candy Crush Saga which, while stronger in the US, did not have a strong enough performance in Asian markets to dethrone Supercell.

Extrapolating from this, it will be telling to see how the Asian popularity of Clash of Clans will affect the Google Play Top Grossing charts from October onward, as Supercell just recently released a build on Android at the beginning of the month.（source：pocketgamer）

2）Rovio releases new Angry Birds products with Penguin Books and Puma

by Phil Tottman

In addition the countdown has started for the brand new Angry Birds GO game.

Rovio Entertainment has announced the roll out of the Angry Birds GO franchise, along with a number of partnerships to expand its product range.

The countdown to the new game has begun. Which will see our favourite feathered friends, and those bad green piggies race go carts in a completely new spin on the concept.

The Finnish company has also partnered with Puma subsidiary Brandon, Penguin Books, Mondelez, BIP, Fashion UK, Leomil, and Tigerprint to launch new product lines including books, confectionary and clothing.

These partnerships and the expansion of its product range will support its global licensing business, and will strengthen the development of its brand focus on product innovation through physical and digital integration.

Angry Birds GO – which was first revealed in an actual kart race with Red Bull – will be released at Brand Licensing Expo in London on December 11th. Fans will be invited to play the new racing game and experience the new line of Hasbro Telepods, where players can teleport new karts into the game.

Naz Cuevas, SVP global consumer products licensing at Rovio, said: “We are thrilled to see so much creativity around our Angry Birds property and can’t wait to welcome these companies onboard as we continue to delight our fans with innovative products lines.

A countdown app will be introduced at the end of this month, which will integrate with the Telepods and will give consumers an exclusive look at the new experience.（source：mobile-ent）

3）Inode hits 300 million downloads from Nokia Store

by Jon Jordan

Last time we were talking with Inode Entertainment, it had hit 200 million downloads from the Nokia Store.

Eight months on, however, and the 10 man-strong Mexican studio is now over 300 million downloads.

Part of this success comes from the company’s broad approach.

It has published over 100 apps, ranging from themes and personalisation apps to games.

Widening the target

But it’s not just about low-level utilities.

The company has started releasing games for Windows Phones too.

It hopes to release 10 titles for Nokia’s new platform in 2013, but it’s clear that it’s the Asha range of devices that currently drives the majority of the company’s downloads such as its game Moto Challenge, as seen below.（source：pocketgamer）

4）After Playfish, social-game veterans return with Samurai Siege, earning $50K a day

After Playfish, social-game veterans return with Samurai Siege, earning $50K a day

Dean Takahashi

John Earner and his team of happy Londoners scored big in the first generation of social games. Now, they’re back with a new startup, Space Ape Games, and a hit title Samurai Siege, which is generating $50,000 a day in revenue from more than 200,000 daily players after just nine days on the market.

John Earner of Space Ape Games.

Earner led Playfish’s London studio and created hit after hit for the company. That led to EA buying the developer for at least $300 million in 2009. Under EA, the Playfish team released games such as The Sims Social. But as Facebook titles took a dive, their mojo dissipated. The “Playfish Mafia,” reminiscent of the Paypal Mafia that founded many Silicon Valley startups, left EA and then started Space Ape Games in London last year with a dozen Playfish veterans. The group wanted to create the world’s best mobile-strategy-game company.

Space Ape started out with an entirely different experiment. They first created a title dubbed Call It: Football. You could play it while watching TV, and you had to pick what play would happen next in a live game of football. The release was popular in a small niche, and it had good reviews. But it monetized horribly. After four months, the team called it quits around January.

“We said life is too short,” Earner said in an interview with GamesBeat. “We need to pivot into something we are more passionate about. It totally failed. We learned a lot from it, and we moved on.”

Fortunately, the company had a good pedigree. Toby Moore, former chief technology officer of Mind Candy, and Simon Hade, a former back-end manager at Playfish, joined Earner. They were able to raise $4.4 million from investors, including Accel US/UK, Initial Capital, Northzone, Connect Ventures, and Gigi Levy. That gave them enough runway to build the right experience.

Space Ape Games shifted to something that resembled their own passion for StarCraft-like hardcore strategy games. They began work on Samurai Siege, spent eight months in development, tweaked the game during a two-month beta in New Zealand and Australia, and then launched it earlier this month on iOS and Android. The title has more than 700,000 installations, and it is already monetizing.

It was also part of the new Facebook Mobile Games Publishing program, which is helping it get lots of new players.

“We looked at the popular real-time strategy genre on the PC with Warcraft and found the quickest way to make it more accessible and easy to use on tablet was to automate the troop artificial intelligence,” Earner said.

Action from Samurai Siege.

The automated troops help the player avoid micro-management. The game has a single-player campaign that draws people into it, and it is accessible with easy touchscreen controls. Players can join alliances and then fight. The battles among alliances are synchronous, but the combat in individual attacks is asynchronous. Wars between alliances last two days, and the winners get premium currency.

The team has 18 core employees, and they’re focused on tweaking the code based on the response from the community. They built the front-end with the Unity engine, allowing for a single-client code base across platforms. They’re leveraging Amazon Web Services to handle the server load. About 3 to 5 percent of players are buying in-game virtual items with real money.（source：venturebeat）

5）Facebook ad profit a staggering 1,790% more on iPhone than Android

John Koetsier

A study of more than 200 billion ads on Facebook says that mobile ads on iPhone generate 1,790 percent more return on investment than ads on Android. Even worse, advertising on Android actually costs more than it returns.

The study is by Nanigans, one of the biggest buyers of Facebook ads, and it focuses on retailers, saying that in the past year on Facebook’s desktop ads, clickthroughs are up 375 percent and overall return on investment is 152 percent.

But it’s when the report focuses on mobile advertising that the really surprising numbers pop up.

“Retailers are realizing significantly greater return from audiences on iOS than audiences on Android,” the report says. “For the first three quarters of 2013, RPC [revenue per click] on iOS averaged 6.1 times higher than Android and ROI [return on investment] on iOS averaged 17.9 times higher than Android.”

When I talked to Nanigans SVP Dan Slagen about the results, he was candid, telling me that the company was a little “on the fence” about publishing that data, knowing that it would be controversial. Ultimately, however, that’s the data that the company was seeing, and the company decided to let the data speak.

Retailers have a large opportunity on mobile, the company says, but clearly the opportunity is much, much more lucrative on iPhone than it is on Android. Frankly, the numbers are shocking.

It’s not just that Android monetizes worse than iOS — it actually offers negative return on investment. In other words, while advertising on iOS brings retailer 162 percent more cash than they spend on the ads, advertising on Android returns 10 percent less than the cost of the ads.

Nanigans doesn’t speculate why the ad ROI differs so greatly between iOS and Android, and the study doesn’t delve into reasons, simply highlighting what’s happening. Likely, the challenge is the same that Android has faced for years: a lower-end audience.

Brutally put, iPhone owners simply tend to both make more money and spend more money than Android owners.

One caveat that Slagen offered, however, is that the data changes with industry, and that gaming and e-commerce industries, for instance, did not see the same kind of massive iPhone/Android gulf in ROI. Still, customers with iPhones are simply worth more, he said.

“Audiences cost more on iPhone, and the reason is that it’s worth it,” Slagen said. “Typically, we’re not looking to acquire one-time customers, we’re looking to invest over time … so we pay more up front for better long-term results.”

Oddly, however, the costs of advertising on Facebook mobile apps doesn’t really vary between Android and iOS, with CPMs (cost per thousand impressions) of $4.99 for iPhone and just slightly lower,

$4.87, for Android. Advertisers are clearly voting with their dollars, however, with advertising budget allocation rising from under 20 percent for iOS in January to well over 50 percent by September.（source：venturebeat）