On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:22 PM, dm1973 <david050...@gmail.com> wrote: > Google doesn't set eCPMs. The market does. eCPMs function on a supply/ > demand curve. The supply went way up when they let more developers > into the program. Hence the eCPM drop. In my experience google pays > about as well as anyone.
Not for me. When I first got into the beta program I began making a lot more than the ad guys I was using before: Greystrip and AdMob. That huge increase in revenue has since gone away and now I see no reason to choose AdSense over anyone else. > And it isn't so much that users don't > understand about the arrow (that is some of it). It is more that > developers are no longer getting paid for misclicks. All my ad integrations were reviewed by Google before launch. There was only the tiniest chance of any mis-clicks because my banner placement was not close to anything else the user would ever click. > The net is the > same (you get less money) but it isn't like Google is making more off > your lower reimbursements. They are making more by cranking up the > volume of ads they serve. And yeah it sucks as a developer when your > revenue is cut in 1/3 over 2 days. I saw a 90% drop in AdSense revenue overall from June and July to now. And that's the difference between thinking I could do Android development fulltime or not. I can only hope it picks back up before the holiday season. It seems more likely that ship has sailed. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
