Al, Can you share who your advertising provider is? Or perhaps some of the ad providers that you considered? What were your thoughts on implementation and service?
I believe that there may be good opportunities to include specific ads or perhaps affiliate offers that make sense, but it is not clear to me what the better options are. Thanks, Carmen On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Filipe, > > I'm not willing to share exact sales figures, but the sales of the ad-free > version were in single figures and active installs of the ad-support version > is in the low thousands and the advertising provider reported a low > thousands figure per day for ads served. > > As I said before these figures aren't of any use to people and companies > looking at a Lite/Pro split, but might be useful to developers who are > seeing low sales on a pay for app and are looking for a way to increase > revenue. > > Al. > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Filipe Abrantes > Sent: 09 July 2009 11:59 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Interesting profit statistic > > > Hi Al, > > This is interesting to know, but are the numbers big enough that they > could have a statistical meaning? I just saw that the plus version > reported less than 50 sales (in cyrket) so Im bit skeptical at > extrapolating the results to a trend. Probably there are more sales from > sources other than the Market, do you have absolute numbers that you can > share? > > Anyhow, thanks for sharing. > > Cheers, > Filipe > > > Al Sutton wrote: > > Though some of you might be interested in this; > > > > Looking at our internal profit statistics for Funky Expenses shows that > revenue from the ad-supported version was around twice the amount we > received from sales of the ad-free version. > > > > The two versions are functionally identical except for the ad-supported > version carrying a top of screen banner on the main areas, so it's not > representative of those who offer a Lite and Pay-for version of apps, but if > you're looking for a way to increase revenue and you're pay-only at the > moment you might want to look at a free ad-supported version as well. > > > > Al. > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
