Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-19 Thread Justin Giles
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Duffey wrote: > Can one of you guys explain fill rate? I've read the AdMob site.. doesn't > quite click with me. Btw, adwhirl is owned by admob, interesting. So if you > basically need an app that is downloaded 10's of thousands of times to make > a few buck

Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
Can one of you guys explain fill rate? I've read the AdMob site.. doesn't quite click with me. Btw, adwhirl is owned by admob, interesting. So if you basically need an app that is downloaded 10's of thousands of times to make a few bucks. By this I mean, if your app is downloaded by 10,000 users, a

Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-19 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Does anyone have experience with putting ads on Maps? Since my app is almost completely map driven I would like to start doing the ad thing but don't even know if it is possible. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Justin Giles wrote: > I agree with Greg (below). I too have a free ad supported f

Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-19 Thread Justin Giles
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 be

Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-19 Thread Greg Donald
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Kevin Duffey 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

Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
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 would love to know how to get s

Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-18 Thread Greg Donald
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:20 PM, westmeadboy wrote: > I would love the Android SDK to include some kind of generic Ad View > where you could control things like the ad provider from an remote > server. Greystripe has isAdReady() so you can check to see if you should show an ad from an alternate o

[android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-18 Thread westmeadboy
I've been using AdMob for a while and am getting rather demoralized with the low fill rate of late. So, I've been looking for alternatives. I stumbled across AdWhirl (http://www.adwhirl.com) which just so happens to have released an alpha version of its Android SDK: http://groups.google.com/group