Cnectd Captures Over Half a Million Downloads in Less Than a Week on GetJar

GetJar Automates App Download Page (ADP) to Help Publishers Promote Their Apps

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GetJar, (www.getjar.com), the world’s second largest app store, today announced that Cnectd, an IM client app that works across smartphone platforms such as iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Symbian has achieved over half a million downloads in under a week using GetJar’s App Download Page (ADP) solution. This makes Cnectd one of the fastest, most downloaded apps since Facebook on GetJar. This announcement follows GetJar’s recent release that Facebook achieved over 50 million downloads in just six months using ADP - and currently continues to generate over 5 million downloads per month.

Cnectd placed all versions of their app on GetJar and promoted the ADP link to consumers through their website and Twitter. It became an instant viral sensation as fans of the app started to re-tweet the ADP link to their friends all over the world.

“We are thrilled that our app has become an overnight sensation,” said Lawrence Bernard, Head of Marketing at Cnectd. “ADP was really easy to use and set up. Once we uploaded our apps we received our unique URL automatically and then simply promoted it far and wide to consumers. The advantage for us was being able to send all our users directly to one place regardless of whether they were using an iPhone, Blackberry, Android or Symbian handset. We look forward to serving millions of consumers in the near future through GetJar’s network of over 200 countries across all major platforms and handsets.”

To help publishers leverage the power of ADP and easily promote their apps, GetJar has invested in automating the ADP process so that each and every app uploaded to GetJar will automatically get its own ADP url in the form of http://getjar.com/appname. Publishers can then promote this URL / page in any way they like be it via Twitter, Facebook, TV, print, Web or any other medium of communication.

Get Mobile with ADP!

App Download Page (ADP) allows users to download an app to their phone in one click. It provides the publisher with a single destination to tell consumers where to get their app or access their site regardless of the users’ phone make/model.

“In the recent Chetan Sharma Consulting Report¹, commissioned by GetJar, we saw that apps downloads will increase from 7 billion in 2009 to 50 billion downloads globally by 2012,” said Ilja Laurs, CEO and Founder of GetJar. “Global brands will realize that although applications provide users with a rich and engaging experience, to make app distribution easy, they need to provide consumers with one, single destination from which to get their apps instead of sending them off to multiple stores depending on what type of handset they might have. As the Wal-Mart of mobile apps, GetJar is committed to providing these content owners with a one-stop shop to distribute both their apps and mobile sites across any platform, handset, carrier or country to help them reach this goal.”

Some companies using ADP include: Photobucket, Fandango, MocoSpace, OpenTable, Flirtomatic, Facebook and Cnectd.

About GetJar

GetJar is the world’s second largest app store, second only to the Apple App Store, with over 1 billion downloads to date. The company’s key point of difference is its open market approach, which allows it to deliver applications for both feature phones and smartphones across all major platforms such as Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Symbian among others. The company provides more than 65,000 mobile applications to consumers in more than 200 countries. In 2009 GetJar won the Meffy, Tiecon50 and Mobile Excellence awards for its achievements and products. GetJar is backed by Accel Partners and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the UK and Lithuania. For more information: www.getjar.com and follow us on Twitter @getjar.

About Cnectd

Cnectd is a mobile messaging and social networking application for smart phones. Cnectd lets you chat across iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Symbian devices. In addition Cnectd allows you to find new friends in your area, share media with your contacts and more. Cnectd alerts users of new messages instantaneously, merging IM style chat with the benefits of SMS/Texts, but with negligible costs.

Cnectd is developed and operated by MCI Consultants, a leading provider of software solutions with its head office in Johannesburg, South Africa. MCI offers a range of software solutions and development services across web and mobile and has 15 years experience in delivering turnkey solutions to its clients.

For more information please visit www.Cnectd.com and follow us on Twitter @Cnectd.

¹For the full Chetan Sharma Consulting Report on the “Global Apps Economy”, go to: http://blog.getjar.com/developer/market-research/sizing-up-the-global-apps-market/

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or
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Jayne Stala/ Lucy Gordon/ Adrian Ma/ Margherita Di Cerbo
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getjar@komodopr.com

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