Yes Really Moto $150/day is a damn good income from Ads, I am only making $1-$2/day , and I am using Admob + Greystripe..
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Duffey <andjar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am interested in this as well. First, Moto.. $150 a day? Holy crap! I'd > love to have that much 7 days a week coming in. That would supplement my > income nicely. :) Second, slightly off topic, but directly related to > revenue.. with that much coming in, or say even more if you had like $1000 a > day coming in, what do you do about income taxes? I was told by some that > google doesn't send any money making info to IRS.. so essentially there is > no way for IRS or any tax/government to track how much you make. I am > probably a long ways off from earning $1 a day.. but I am curious how you > handle this issue. Is it on faith that you pay taxes... and mind you, you > can shoot a private email if this is something that you wouldn't want to > make public. :) I am not trying to cheat the IRS out of money by any means.. > I would rather be legit... but am interested in how this is done. Living in > California I already lose half my paycheck to taxes between state and > federal. > > The ads that are done in games, don't they have to be clicked on to earn > money? You said you have 60,000 users, do a lot of them click the ads while > playing a game? Or even in a splash screen or game-over screen? Or do you > earn money just by showing the ad? I would hope both.. clicks == more money, > showing == very little. But if you get nothing from displaying the ad.. that > seems ridiculous... because you are advertising for that ad.. the user is > seeing that ad.. even if they don't click it, it may trigger them later to > look it up, etc. If you do make some money off of each ad displayed... how > does it work? I mean, you could write a robot app that made it seem like > 10's of 1000's of people were at least seeing the ad. There must be some way > that admob and others avoid "cheating" and losing money. > > Lastly, I thought things like admob required an ad all the time? You can > control when/where you display it? I thought admob was a small banner ad at > the bottom of the screen all the time.. and it's sdk/api controlled how > often an ad was displayed? What level of control do you have over say.. > putting ads during game play, or just on the splash screen and end-game/high > score screens? As well, how targeted are the ads? Do you send data to admob > about the user playing the game that helps them target ads? > > Thanks. > > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Ahmed majaat <amaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> try this, >> http://www.aditic.com/demo, it may helps you to improve your CTR and >> Revenue. >> >> They have more ad formats, splashscreen, interstial, 2/3 banner, >> strech banner and more for Android. >> >> Just for your information I used intro/splashscreen Banner and >> retractable banner, my CTR is around 0.67. >> >> Ahmed, >> >> On Mar 16, 2:22 am, Wayne Wenthin <wa...@fuligin.com> wrote: >> > There is AdWhirl that will allow you to serve up from different >> providers. >> > I have not tried it yet but since I have both admob, which was doing >> very >> > well for me, and Mobclix I may try to do them both. I found it >> interesting >> > that while keeping the ad rotation interval the same between the two I >> was >> > serving around 30K impression with mobclix and about 17K with admob. >> > My CTR on admob was significantly higher. Now that I switched back to >> admob >> > I found a "glitch" that I had not noticed before and wonder if my >> mobclix >> > CTR could have been better. Its actually encouraging to know that at >> > least some money is being made out there. I racked up 48 bucks for the >> > last week in january and have about twice as many users now so I'm >> waiting >> > to see if my glitch has been fixed. Now another topic that would fun >> to >> > discuss is how the heck do you get users to update?! >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Moto <medicalsou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > Yes, I believe this very much concerns developers because most of the >> > > time, based on this revenue, it is what makes a developer want to >> > > continue developing... >> > >> > > Yahel, I also believe that applications shouldn't abuse the user with >> > > ads. I believe that ads should be carefully placed to flow with the >> > > application. That's what I do currently. My current CTR is really >> > > low. 0.05% and I'm still making on avg $150 per day. The app's got >> > > around 60,000 users... and I use Quattro Wireless... >> > >> > > Now my apps CTR seems low cause we request an add on every activity >> > > and this lowers our effectiveness to display ads, that's why the low >> > > CTR. So I'm looking at better ways to improve it... Like I asked >> > > possibly using 2 different ad agencies. >> > >> > > -Moto >> > >> > > On Mar 15, 5:02 pm, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > > Sorry John but I do not agree. >> > >> > > > Android Discuss seems there to discuss any general Android topic : >> The >> > > > device or it's use, not developer stuff. >> > >> > > > This ads thing does only concern developers, doesn't it ? >> > >> > > > Yahel >> > >> > > -- >> > > 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> >> <android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> > >> > > For more options, visit this group at >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > >> > -- >> > Writing code is one of few things >> > that teaches me I don't know everything. >> > >> > Make Call Girl Manager great! >> > Join the forums.http://www.fuligin.com/forums >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+ >> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE >> ME" as the subject. >> > > -- > 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 > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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