Hey all, about a year ago I launched a side project/experiment called 1 Radio News.
It quickly plays the top of the hour radio news headlines from five sources current. I've been learning first hand about app design and marketing. Getting an app to 1,000 users with a limited marketing budget is quite instructive. Long-story short, if you don't show up in the top 250 for apps with key words in the Google Play store for things people actually search for, you better have a promo budget if $1-2 for each advertising prompted install. Of course then, it better be compelling enough for people to use more than once. :-) I spent a bit on ads hoping to get my app in that top 250 for one key search "radio news." It seemed to work along with app text play store listing changes. Try the search and let me know where it shows up in Google Play. Right now it may be near 50. Notably "news radio" doesn't prompt a search result and probably something like "bbc news" would be far more useful. Anyway, version 2 is in beta and I had my developer build it out to also support live news streams that I have carefully curated and tested for reliability. It sort of makes your phone into a shortwave radio for global news in English. If you want to be an ANDROID beta tester this week, please drop me a note at: [email protected] comments (at) 1radionews.com On last lesson, using the word "quickly" rather than "simply" listen to hourly radio news was far more effective via Google ads. Cheers, Steve P.S. I am on vacation this week, so don't expect many DoWire posts. ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/72H6t8Wh2UUWbVYQcsL3nA For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
