The Best App Market places for my App?
It has to be said, that as soon as I uploaded my apps to multiple market places - My downloads have BOOMED!
AMAZON is a fantastic place for getting downloads, SO MANY Kindle users have my app that i have optimised EVERYTHING to look good on a kindle.
I presume it is just the shear size of Amazon that gets me such exposure.
OPERA is also a great place for downloads - The advertising on OPERA is GREAT! I paid $10 for a week long campaign and it gave me 150 downloads - which works out at $0.06 (£0.04) per download. SO, my next campaign will be $25 for 3 weeks! Remembering though that i wont continuously be paying for advertising - it is just a great way of getting those initial downloads, because something people look at to try and see if your app is worth downloading is "How many downloads has this app already had?"
BUT!!!!!!! I have now uploaded my Apps to SAMSUNG APPS - And it has exploded!!! - 1200 downloads in ONE WEEK!
The only thing about SamSung App Store is it takes about 10 days for them to approve your app.
SOC.IO - this is another great appstore to use, i have 100 downloads in about 3 weeks.
Some others worth trying (after Amazon, Opera, Soc.io and Samsung) are Mobango, Aptoide, andapponline).
If anyone gives this a try and gets stuck - let me know - i'll help if i can!
Andromo Rocks!
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Amazon is relatively good for, but achieving only about 1/10 or 1/8 of my Google Play volume. However, one of my paid apps is performing there better, than a lot of my free apps.
I've just registered to Samsung. It didn't even cross my mind so thanks for mentioning it. I've uploaded one of my better performing apps so let's see what will happen (total time spend for registering and uploading was about an hour and a half). However their process is much more detailed than Google's. I guess it's something like Apple Store.
I'm about to try Soc.io tomorrow.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but does anyone know, where is it best to store MP3 files? Is a normal hosting plan with "unlimited" bandwidth OK?
Thanks.
The $0.05 advertising with Opera IS NOT CPD (Cost per Download)!!!!
It is actually only a CPC = Click on Download Button.
I had a skype conversation yesterday with Opera (since I complained about the results and that I don't see any increase in ad revenue. So they told me, "that cost per download, is the wrong wording. it's only a click to the download button we are charging you for".
If it works for you, great!! I haven't been to happy about it with my first trial.
Maybe I give it another try with different apps. Not sure yet ....
I will review the AWS ASAP. Thanks again.
1. SamsungApps
2. GetJar
3. Google Play
4. Opera
5. Soc.io
6. Amazon
7. Mobango
The real surprise is the size of samsungapps. Honestly, last time I checked, I had 11 apps in Gplay with total downloads at 150 pieces or so, in samsungapps I got 1600 downloads but only from 6 apps! This is because apps are slower in getting accepted. Also, imagine, form those 6 apps online in Samsung, the 4 had only 2 days there!
Getjar is also impressive. I get, steadily now, every day 150 downloads+. Every single day!
They will let users run Android apps on any kind of OS. They promise millions of new people to reach.
I signed up for the openmobile and just got an email.
Excerpt:
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Android's open source allows us to use pieces of the technology so we
can enable on multiple channels (Tizen, webOS, Win, etc...). In the
case of Tizen, analysts are predicting more than 20 million devices sold
in the first year. Your Android catalog will be accessible on the
Tizen platform - and not risk to you. We have more distribution
channels coming on board in the next month or two.
***
A good number of my apps is already in the portal, so let's wait and see :-)
By the way, how are your download on Opera / Yandex?