true insperation , thank you for the good sharing , thins journey is bleu print that i come to it from time to time how are the dialy , keep the husling , did ever before tried cpa offers with your apps ?
Yes, I actually did. I also wrote a part about this in my ebook.
There could be several reasons, but this is something what I raged about a lot earlier in this thread...there is definitely some kind of double standard.
That's what happens in the space, it's like Google being classist to new devs lol, they don't respect until you make it through and now boom they're your friends.
Now that's very interesting, it's also worth mentioning that, this is the agency that reported us to Google: appdetex(.)com
This is completely true with Google from my experience. They just disabled our AdMob account a week ago with no reason besides some bullshit without going into details. Our account was new and just got verified this month(received the PIN) and our traffic has increased by a lot this month, we had around 6-7k EUR mtd and suddenly banned. I appealed the decision but I don't have any expectations and will most likely continue only with IAP's from now on.
Sorry for you my friend, IAP is the way to go, my business is actually 100% IAP based, we don't even have adMob account, and we're now trying to move to IOS dev as much as possible, because google is unpredictable and they can screw you at any given time and you can do nothing about it.
I think mediation is safer and there are other networks as well.
I had mediation through AdMob but the entire account was disabled. The other ad networks have horrible ads for user experience, even worse than admob, so I will just remove them completely, this way the quality of the app will be improved and less negative reviews.
Yeah, this stuff is really ridiculous. Earlier in the thread I mentioned how some Thai guys kept taking down my apps and then I had to unpublish all my apps from Thailand and some other countries and then the reporting/suspensions stopped.
Sorry for your loss. I know how it feels. Google suspended my AdMob account with 4-5k USD in it just hours before they would normally pay me. They are absolute criminals.
IAPs, specifically subscriptions are really the way to go. Earns you so much more money. Also, there are just so many people who completely forget to cancel a subscription. You will just keep earning for weeks from a single user. But for users to make a subscription, you will need a really useful and high quality app...thats the main obstacle.
Yes, definitely. And it gives you full control over the Ad network. But it really depends on the scale of the app. With 5-6k€ per month it is definitely worth it to switch to Appodeal, will also earn you more money.
I would use AppLovin MAX or Appodeal. I think ads can be really useful, especially when you integrate Rewarded Ads (they got the highest eCPM). Also when you offer IAP you can use the ads as a reason for the people to upgrade to the premium version. Depending on the app I am not a fan of interstitial/banner ads as well.
This is an interesting point, I think we need to exclude supporting certain countries, also would be great if you can list the problematic countries in your experience, if you remember them of course.
Yeah Europe actually cares about its citizens, the U.S is a complete mess and it's heaven for criminal corporates
Now imagine how stressful it's to do business with Google, you constantly worry that some obese liberal would take down your app in a matter of seconds.
, but we did list it back without the keyword WhatsApp and that just ruined the app.
I think tier 3 countries get more downloads but have extremely low ecpm (<$1). But I keep them enabled so that I get more downloads and adds to the total download count and may give it some traction in other markets. This may also help in aso I think. Anyway if there is a risk involved I would also like to know the list of problematic countries.
I found FB ads to be at par with admob but now they have stopped waterfall model and only enabled thru mediation. However, the ads only work on devices that have FB account, so reach is limited.
I think it depends on the niche. As long as you are not in the Top 10 and get all the traffic, it won't be a problem. But as soon as you make it to the top, boy...your competitors will try everything they can to get rid of you. They will download your app and try to find any reason to report you.
Its a sad reality....better to stay under the radar....one way I can think of is maybe avoid very competitive niches where downloads can exceed >500/day....or disable all tier 3 countries.
Thanks a lot for the nice words. I wish you a lot of success.
