I agree with Greg (below). I too have a free ad supported full feature version as well as a no ad pay version. When all the coins are counted, I'm making more money with the free version than I am the pay version. Almost twice as much.
In regards to the ad companies and performance, I switch between Greystripe and AdMob for every other ad in my game. AdMob is outperforming Greystripe almost 5:1 for the month of January. The month of December, it was only 2.5:1 in favor of AdMob. There are constant fluctuations in the ad market in terms of fill rate, etc. My fill rate average since I started showing ads (about 3 months) is around 80%. Not bad, but you do get discouraged when you see those low fill rate days as well as those low revenue days. My advice is to try one or two companies over a two month period and see which one does best for you on average. Justin On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Greg Donald <gdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Kevin Duffey <andjar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am curious.. how do you work in ad support into an app? This is one of > the > > business models discussed in other threads, and it seems like providing a > > lite version with ads, and a pay version is one way to go. Or, just do a > > full version with ads in it all the time. > > I keep my feature set the same in both my free and non-free versions, > my free version just has ads is all. > > > I would love to know how to get > > started on adding "ad" support. How do you set up the ability to get paid > > from the ad providers? > > You attach them to your bank account or they mail you a check. > > > How/when do you display ads, and where do you get the > > ads from? How many ads must display to earn $1. > > A lot. On a good day 20K, on a bad day 70K. > > > Etc. I'd love to know more > > about how all this works and how much you make or how you figure out how > > much you can potentially make this way. > > My experience has been more profitable with Greystripe, they have the > full screen ads and seem to perform better than the smaller banner ads > from AdMob. > > > -- > Greg Donald > destiney.com | gregdonald.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >
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