Fiksu has reported that this form of advertising helps to increase interest in applications. According to a recent report from Fiksu, Facebook mobile marketing using application install ads played a considerable role in the considerable increase in downloads from the Apple App Store. The report indicated that the number of downloads increased by 11 percent in April 2013. The report, called the Fiksu App Store Competitive Index, is a measure of the daily average aggregate download volume among the leading 200 American iPhone applications that are available for free. Its…