Johannes is the co-founder of ANDLABS, a company specialized in Android development. Starting his mobile career in 2008, he has been building up Android expertise since the beginning. He has helped several bluechip companies get their Android apps ready, gives talks on conferences on a regular basis and published several articles in field-related journals.
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It has not been one year since I started publishing Android income reports, but it has been far more than a year since I released my first app to the Android market, so it’s time to for my first annual report. It is structured the same way my monthly reports are but with a little more detail on certain aspects.
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3D Invaders – about 167,000 downloads
AL Voice Recorder – about 538,000 downloads
AL Voice Recorder Ad Free – 853 downloads
Droid-Blog.net Android App – 370 downloads
SmsToSpeech full – 722 downloads
Unfortunately I have no numbers of my app’s last years downloads, but this will sure change next year. What might be interesting to you is that all the above apps were published in 2010.
I made improvements on my apps, added great features and completely reworked the internals of the AL Voice Recorder. I did some App Store Optimization but invested also a lot of time into ANDLABS, the Android development company I cofounded.
Here are some statistics from the two advertising networks I’m using, AdMob and Madvertise. Please read my second income report for an explanation of the following numbers.
AdMob:
Requests: 6,539,380
Impressions: 6,339,677
Fill Rate: 96.95%
Clicks: 151,543
CTR: 2.39%
eCPM: $1.06
House Ads: 3,201,330
House Ad Clicks: 33,007
House Ad CTR: 1,03%
Adjusted Requests: 9,740,710
Adjusted Fill Rate: 65.01%
Now what’s pretty interesting here is the house Ads. When you have been following my income report series, you probably saw that my house ad requests were close to zero in the last months. This means that, in the beginning of 2011, AdMob had far less ads to serve than they have now.
Madvertise
As I’m not using house ads in madvertise, no adjusted requests and fill rates are shown here.
Requests: 4,819,463
Impressions: 917,899
Fill Rate: 19.05%
Clicks: 43,989
CTR: 4.79%
eCPM: $8.75
When you took a look at my last monthly income report, you will notice that about a quarter of my requests and impressions on madvertise were generated in December. This truly was an awesome month!
Here we go.
Madvertise:
3D Invaders: ~$6,750.41
AL Voice Recorder: ~$1,292.61
madvertise Total: ~$8043,02
3D Invaders: $2,089.43
AL Voice Recorder: $4,601.90
AdMob Total: $6,691.25
Market sales (includes In-App purchases): ~$1,595.82
Total: ~$16,330.09
That’s an average of $1,360.85 per month. Nothing one could live of in a city as expensive as Munich but, since this were only my private apps, still a satisfying result.
Let’s analyze this a bit. A pretty interesting thing is the development of my impressions vs. my income on AdMob. Let’s look at some graphs:
AdMob impressions 2011
AdMob income 2011
As you can see, my impressions and my income totaly don’t fit at the beginning of the year. However, when taking a look at my eCPM, this correlates pretty good:
AdMob eCPM 2011
While I had lots of impressions at the beginning of the year, the eCPM AdMob provided at the end of 2011 was able to top the results of that period by several 100%.
With madvertise, I had a similar szenario income wise. As I wrote above, I made most of my impressions in the last month(s) of this year, same with my revenue:
madvertise income 2011
For this year I’m planing to release some awesome apps and hence want to make an awesome income. This is why my goal for this year is to have one month with an income of at least $10,000. I hope this will work out.
Please feel free to share your own experiences, hints and opinions in the comments. Please also don’t hesitate to tell me if there is anything else you’d like to get some information about.
Another month is over, 2011 is done. I hope your last month was as great as mine was. Let me tell you why.
If you are new to this series, let me explain it to you: Since Android is an open platform, I decided to be open about the income I’m making with my private Android apps too. In the last report I aimed to reach $3,000 for the last month. You will see if it worked out.
For all income reports, please click here.
3D Invaders – about 167,000 installs (+29k), 17% active
AL Voice Recorder – about 538,000 installs (+51k), 24% active
AL Voice Recorder Ad Free – 853 installs (+37), 43% active
Droid-Blog.net Android App – 370 installs (+22), 18% active
SmsToSpeech full – 722 installs (+7), 40% active
More then 80 thousand new downloads in this month. The AL Voice Recorder crossed the half-million-border. Wow! Still, it’s download rates declined a bit at the end of the month but 3D Invaders’ downloads increased a lot.
I worked on some apps, no changes to the apps currently published
Here are some statistics from the two advertising networks I’m using, AdMob and Madvertise. Please read the second income report for an explanation of the following numbers.
AdMob:
Requests: 693.010 (+65k)
Impressions: 680,326 (+69k)
Fill Rate: 98.17% (+0.83%)
Clicks: 29.441 (+11.2k)
CTR: 4.33% (+1.36%)
eCPM: $2.52 (+$1.12)
House Ads: 1,343 (+778)
Adjusted Requests: 694,353 (+66k)
Adjusted Fill Rate: 97.98% (+0.73%)
Madvertise
As I’m not using house ads in madvertise, no adjusted requests and fill rates are shown here.
Requests: 1,287,724 (+175k)
Impressions: 206,705 (+41k)
Fill Rate: 16.05% (+1.22%)
Clicks: 10,132 (+2,463)
CTR: 4.90% (+0.25%)
eCPM: $10.32 (+$1.18)
Again a really nice increase in both networks. Especially the increase in CTR at AdMob surprised me positively.
Here’s what you’ve been waiting for. This time I’m trying to give you a even deeper overview by providing graphs of my income development:
Madvertise:
3D Invaders: ~$1,817.00
AL Voice Recorder: ~$319.29
madvertise Total: ~$2,136.29 (+$627.46)
madvertise income graph
AdMob:
3D Invaders: $625.94
AL Voice Recorder: $1,086.42
AdMob Total: $1,712.36 (+$854.14)
AdMob income graph
Market sales: ~$97.77 (+$10.75)
In-App purchases: ~$5.96 (-$2.23)
Total: ~$3,952.74 (+$1,481.96)
Almost $4k, a really awesome result!
Being able to reach this numbers again would be great. So I’m setting my goal for next month to the close mark of $4,000 for this next month.
Please feel free to share your own experiences and hints in the comments. Please also don’t hesitate to tell me if there is anything else you’d like to get some information about.
Another month is over, it’s time for income facts again.
If you are new to this series, let me explain it to you: Since Android is an open platform, I decided to be open about the income I’m making with my private Android apps too. In the last report I aimed to reach $2,000 for the last month. You will see if it worked out.
For all income reports, please click here.
3D Invaders – about 137,000 installs (+19k), 16% active
AL Voice Recorder – about 486,000 installs (+53k), 24% active
AL Voice Recorder Ad Free – 816 installs (+43), 41% active
Droid-Blog.net Android App – 348 installs (+46), 22% active
SmsToSpeech full – 715 installs (+17), 41% active
More than 70 thousand new downloads. What a great result!
I sat and waited. In other words: I did nothing affecting the apps mentioned in this report.
Here are some statistics from the two advertising networks I’m using, AdMob and Madvertise. Please read the second income report for an explanation of the following numbers.
AdMob:
Requests: 627,885 (+154k)
Impressions: 611,153 (+157k)
Fill Rate: 97.34% (+1.37%)
Clicks: 18,160 (+8.8k)
CTR: 2.97% (+0.92%)
eCPM: $1.40 (+$0.44)
House Ads: 565 (-4.4k)
Adjusted Requests: 628,450 (+150k)
Adjusted Fill Rate: 97.25% (+2.28%)
Madvertise
As I’m not using house ads in Madvertise, no adjusted requests and fill rates are shown here.
Requests: 1,112,482 (+267k)
Impressions: 165,040 (+43k)
Fill Rate: 14.84% (+0.44%)
Clicks: 7669 (+3,015)
CTR: 4.65% (+0.82%)
eCPM: $9.14 (-$0.17)
While both ad networks performed awesome in the month before, they did even better in the last month. Both click through rates increased and I was able to cross the one-million-requests-mark in madvertise.
No more prose, just numbers:
Madvertise:
3D Invaders: ~$1,044.33
AL Voice Recorder: ~$464.50
Madvertise Total: ~$1,508.83 (+$375.24)
AdMob:
3D Invaders: $310.01
AL Voice Recorder: $548.21
AdMob Total: $858.22 (+$423.26)
Market sales: ~$97.77 (+$10.75)
In-App purchases: ~$5.96 (-$2.23)
Total: ~$2,470.78 (+$807.02)
Another 800 dollar increase! As far as I’m concerned, that’s a growth rate I can live with.
Again, I expect the level of new installs to stay stable in this month. Since four days of this month already passed and numbers look good, I’m aiming to reach the next big goal of $3,000 in the next month.
Please feel free to share your own experiences and hints in the comments. Please also don’t hesitate to tell me if there is anything else you’d like to get some information about.
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