For the last month or so we’ve been semi-secretly working on adding iAds to appFigures. Some of our members have been beta testing the newly-added reports for about two weeks and their feedback was invaluable. Now that the beta is complete we’re excited to bring iAds tracking to everyone.

We’ve done our best to make iAds tracking as easy as possible by adding new reports that break down all available iAds metrics in the same way you’ve come to expect. You can quickly analyze requests, impressions, eCPM, CTR, and fill rate with interactive charts, beautiful maps, and detailed data tables.

In the coming weeks we’ll also be adding iAds data to your beloved email reports so you can wake up to all of your data.

Maybe it’s the sense of competition, maybe it’s just having more numbers to look at, but either way people love ranks.

We realized we were already pushing the ranks code and infrastructure we had to its limits. It was time to start from the ground up and rebuild it, and that’s what we did.

We’re really excited to take the next step and provide top-400 hourly rank data to all of our members, along with data for all of the top grossing categories.

So, starting today you get:

1. Much, much faster reports overall
2. Even deeper tracking – Top 400
3. Reporting on top grossing categories for all categories and subcategories
4. Ability to filter ranks by device (iPhone or iPad), as well as type of category (Free/Paid or Top Grossing)

With this new infrastructure we can (and will) push ranks even further to give you access to more data and even better analysis. We don’t want to spoil the surprise so we won’t go into details :)

Check it out!

We’re doing some maintenance on the parts of appFigures that handle syncing and uploading reports as well as the archive. Everything should be back up by 9pm 2am EST. While this is going on you may see empty region reports and other weirdly displayed data, but have no fear your data is as safe as can be.

When it’s all behind us you can expect a genius importing engine that can eat even the most disgustingly mangled reports.

A few months ago we (somewhat) sponsored and (mostly) hung out at an incredible iPhone development conference, 360iDev.

Part of being a sponsor meant we could throw a tuesday-night nerd party. So naturally we chose to have a sumo competition for an iPad. Recently a video of this abomination to good taste surfaced and we knew we needed to show it to you.

This was the final showdown. A lot was at stake. Men were made and broken in inflatable suits. To the winner: everlasting glory and a smooth, sexy electronic joy-machine. To the loser: a beer and a promise that we wouldn’t tell his wife.

Take a look:

Thanks to David “Bloodsausage” Ballard of TapMeGames
and Doug “The Baconator” Sjoquist of Sunetos, Inc for being great sports and putting on a jolly good show.

As you may already know, earlier today we had a ranks outage that lasted from 11AM to 2PM, so your reports will currently show a big blank gap for that period. Yikes!

We do have some good news: Ranks began aggregating on schedule again at 3PM and have continued since.

And we have even better news: We traced this back to an issue in our reports display engine and our team is currently working to fix it. We expect to have it resolved within the next few hours. Once corrected those ranks will display properly and that big gap will go away forever.

appFigures will be unavailable for planned maintenance at 12AM EST on Sunday 6/27.

UPDATE: Maintenance is taking longer than expected and may require more time to complete. We apologize for the delay and are doing our best to wrap it all up as soon as possible.

UPDATE: Maintenance has been completed successfully.

During the maintenance we’ll be upgrading several parts of our infrastructure so that we can support the growing traffic to our site.

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Sometimes you just don’t want a monthly recurring charge. Until now that was the only way we could bill you: one month at a time every month. Well now you’ve got another option. We just released the ability to prepay your account with your credit card or with PayPal.
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The iPad is coming tomorrow and we have full support for it today.

Earlier today we’ve started to track the following top iPad lists:

• Top 100 Overall (free + paid)
• Top Grossing
• Top 100 Games (free + paid)

As of midnight 4/4 we’re also tracking all ipad app categories. And as of 4/5 we’re also tracking all games sub-categories!



Good luck iPad developers.

360iDev is a great conference for iPhone developers. This year we’ll be in full attendance. But we won’t only be attending, we’ll also be in charge of Tuesday night’s party. “The” party.

Activity of the night — Sumo wrestling for an iPad!

That’s right, sumo wrestling! Because what’s a good party without some humorous violence? We’ll have it all – sumo suits, a big wrestling ring, a referee (to keep things kosher), and even an announcer to keep the good times rolling.

To make this even better, the grand prize for the ultimate sumo will be a brand new iPad.

Like beer?

We need your help picking out which beer to serve at the party. Vote for your favorite beer on our iDev iBeer iPoll – check out this blog post for more detail.

As you may or may not know, appFigures is sponsoring 360iDev in April. It’s a great iPhone development conference in San Jose, and as sponsors we get to throw a really wild party on April 13th. The problem is that for a really wild party you need the right beer.

We’ve been kicking ideas around the office and can’t come to any sort of agreement, suggestions run from Arrogant Bastard Ale and Corona to Steel Reserve and paint thinner with flour. We figure if we can’t come to any sort of consensus, we should let our users and the conference attendees decide, and what better way to do this than through the internet-magic of twitter?

So here’s the deal: between today, March 23rd and April 1st tweet @appFigures with your beer suggestion and tag it with #ibeeripoll

We’ll take the top 5 most tweeted and retweeted beers and bring them along to the party, so get excited and may the best beer win.

Here are some suggestions (click to tweet your vote):