Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’

YourAppReviewed.com Bogus Reviews for Sale

May 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We recently received an e-mail from blogger Rob Walch. On his blog, he wrote a short story on a service called YourAppReviewed.com (YAR for short). The company seems to be selling positive reviews.

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Reverb Communications Caught Cheating on App Store

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yes, we are finally back from Cologne and already received a tip about a story that Techcrunch ran on PR firm Reverb Communications. Those guys seem to cheat with consumer reviews to boost the apps of their clients.

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O.A.T.S. For Fair iPhone Reviews

March 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Remember the story we had last year about some territory manager at Glu that was trying to influence mobile game review results? Several iPhone sites have started a new campaign for fair reviews.

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Nokia Starts N-Gage Promotions in Holland

January 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In big markets like the UK, Nokia's N-Gage platform has been promoted to the press for some time. Now, Nokia's press agency in The Netherlands has also started to create press awareness in the hope to create awareness for the platform in The Netherlands.