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Re:Ask HN: Care to share your average Android Market daily r... by espinchi on Sunday May 09, 2010 @04:41PM (#1332820)
Fortunately, some types of apps can get very nice revenue from ads. (I mean, compared to games.)

We're getting like $2000 a month out of ads with our free apps, but only $250 from our paid application, which is just a generalization of the free ones.

An interesting fact: we experienced no decline at all in the number of sold instances of our paid application when we increased the price from €0.50 to €1.00. That means, we doubled the revenue :-O. (Yeah, well, the new release included some improvements, but still surprising IMO.)

Re:Ask HN: Care to share your average Android Market daily r... by crocowhile on Sunday May 09, 2010 @08:13PM (#1333119)
It doesn't surprise me at all that 0.50 to 1euro makes no difference in terms of # of download. I would not be surprised if even 2euro or 2.5 would keep the number constant. It would be really nice to do some serious marketing / behavioral economics study on what is the threshold for "real cheap" on the app stores. I wonder if there is any way to get anonymous data from apple store.
Re:Ask HN: Care to share your average Android Market daily r... by heliodorj on Sunday May 09, 2010 @04:52PM (#1332838)
how many installs do you have to be able to pull $2000 a month in ad revenue?

which ad network are you using?

Re:Ask HN: Care to share your average Android Market daily r... by espinchi on Monday May 10, 2010 @05:01AM (#1333914)
200k installs generate all that revenue in Ads. The average active installs is around 40%, though.

We started using Admob, but now we are much happier in Mobclix.