What did your users say about the web page your application brings up everytime it starts? and the ads? Sound like it can annoy many users......and drive them away.
Cheers Eric Portable Electronics Ltd www.hdmp4.com On Dec 21, 6:25 am, tobias429 <[email protected]> wrote: > There has been some discussion in this forum on possible business > models for Android applications and whether displaying adsense ads via > your applications would be an example for one. > > Just wanted to share my experience with this. > > What did I do? > =========== > I developed an Android application and published it for free download > on the Android Marketplace. When the application starts, it opens a > Webview that displays a web-page I designed. The Web-Page welcomes the > user to the application, informs about further Android applications I > am developing - and displays a Google adsense blog. > > What happened? > ============ > It worked great! The application was downloaded several thousand > times, received good ratings, and I got a solid click through rate on > the adsense ads. > > Why is this negative? > ================ > It lasted exactly six days. Then Google deactivated my adsense account > as it - according to Google - poses a risk to their advertisers. No > information what this risk consists in and how Google came to this > decision. > > Google offers a possibility to appeal against accounts being blocked. > I did so, but never received a response. > > Anyone here who made similar experiences? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
