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Thursday
16Jul2009

Busted Loop Offers Free Access to Worldwide Appstore Data

DateThursday, July 16, 2009 at 9:00PM

We are entering a new era here at Busted Loop. Today we presented at the MobileBeat 2009 conference in San Francisco. We were one of 14 companies selected to participate in a startup competition. We presented our company to a crowd of about 500 people and launched our newest initiative, The Busted Loop Raw Appstore Data (RAD). Here is our press release:

07/15/2009 - Busted Loop Offers Free Access to Worldwide Appstore Data


Busted Loop, a Maine based startup company, will provide a free snapshot of iTunes Appstore data starting July 16th. Their Raw Appstore Data (RAD) includes name, price, and release date for over 60,0000 iPhone apps available in the Appstore, along with the apps’ popularity ranking in each of the 77 countries where Apple has launched an iTunes store.


Still in beta, the feed is available as a comma-delimited file and can be downloaded from Busted Loop’s website at bustedloop.com. The RAD announcement coincides with Busted Loop’s appearance in the startup competition at MobileBeat 2009. A fresh snapshot will be posted on the Busted Loop website each month.


About Busted Loop: Founded in May 2009 with a mission to track and analyze the booming iPhone app marketplace, Busted Loop began publishing initial research findings on June 30th. Within days, articles from the Busted Loop Blog were syndicated in news sites around the world. The July 7th article titled How Much Does It Cost To Buy Every iPhone App? ($144,326.06) was featured in Gizmodo and Forbes.

You should subscribe to our RSS feed here. You are going to want to see the analysis we start pulling from this data over the next couple weeks...

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Monday
06Jul2009

Where can you get two weeks of iTunes App Store data?

DateMonday, July 6, 2009 at 3:08PM

Right here! See links below to download App Store rankings for over 50,000 apps.

The iTunes App Store is changing rapidly. There are thousands of new apps every week, and the number of new publishers is keeping pace. At the same time, apps disappear from the app store every day. Apps move up and down in popularity, change price, and even shift from one category to another. It's a churning urn of burning funk!


We have lots of App Store data and we love digging around in it. Some of you find this stuff really interesting too, so we offer you some raw data in the hope that you will find it useful, and that you'll derive something interesting and share it with us. We've packaged up two recent snapshots of our ranking data from the US iTunes App Store, one week apart.

Download file #1US AppStore July 2 Download file #2US AppStore June 25

 

If you're unfamiliar with the structure of the App Store, these notes may be helpful:

  1. Apps are organized into categories
  2. The Games category has a number of sub-categories
  3. Apps can belong to multiple categories
  4. Rankings are relative to other apps in the same category
  5. There are other ranked lists that contain apps across multiple categories

The data is de-normalized, and is presented in as simple a format as possible. Each record consists of:

  • Category name
  • Rank
  • App
  • Price

Questions are welcomed, critique appreciated, insights revered. So download our data, pop it in a spreadsheet or database or whatever your flavor, and get back to us with your results!

UPDATE: 7/16/09 check out the new data, world wide!

 

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