Why not just sell some new important feature and as a side bonus remove the adds? Just a thought. Don't know how effective this would be.
On Dec 11, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting approach, though my next release will allow people to opt out of > ads for $1. At 4%, it's tempting to do as you suggest, but I'll report (once > I have data) what the result is on the $1 buy-out clause. > > Would be nice if they let us charge $0.10 using in-app payments, like they're > doing with the $0.10 app promotion, since I bet a lot more people would opt > out for $0.10 -- and that's typically more than I'd get for getting them to > click on an ad anyway. > > Tim > > On 12/11/2011 7:51 PM, John Coryat wrote: >> I run banner "ads" in my main app that are used for promotions of other >> apps, news and other things. It appears on the bottom of the display. >> >> There's also an "opt-out" option in the app where the user can stop these >> from running. Up to just recently, I was unable to tell what the percentage >> of users were that opted out of the banners. >> >> Turns out that 96% of users have allowed the ads to run even though they can >> stop them. That means that only 4% of users decided to stop showing ads. >> >> Those 4% are certainly vocal though. Before I had the opt-out, I got lots of >> hate mail from furious users who thought it was an affront to their personal >> space to show ads. By letting them opt out, they have been silenced >> completely. >> >> I would recommend to anyone who decided to run ads in their app to have an >> option to allow users to opt out for free. The 4% who are against >> advertising won't click on the ads anyway so it's better to just let them >> stop the ads and be done with it. Making them pay to get rid of the ads just >> infuriates those people anyway. >> >> -John Coryat >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Discuss" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/aAw5xtRl4qAJ. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
