Android game development income stats – April

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May 102013
 
This entry is part 26 of 26 in the series Android Income Stats

Keeping with my theme of continuing to summarize the data, mostly to reduce work for myself while still keeping some track of what’s going on. My day job is getting busier, I’ll be working with a team that’s on the other side of the planet, so much of my free time in the evenings will turn into work time for the rest of the year. I really don’t know when (or if) I’ll be getting back to game development. On the other hand, it’ll be interesting to see how long I can continue to pull in ~$100/month doing exactly nothing :)

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Android game development income stats – March

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Apr 192013
 
This entry is part 25 of 26 in the series Android Income Stats

I’m going to switch to more summarized data. My work has gotten really busy over the last couple of months, and it looks like the rest of the year will be the same. So I really doubt I’ll be spending much time working on games. Which is a bit of a shame, I had started working on an idea with a friend that looked promising. Also, I’m not sure Mobclix will ever pay me again, so it seems like a waste of energy to record my earnings with the level of detail I used to.

Ad Revenue

No surprises here, things are pretty stable. Bus Jumper is still getting the most impressions and making the most money. Some days I wonder if I should just write 20 other Bus Jumper clones :)

Mobclix

 
All games
Total$3,188.24
ImpressionsClicksRevenue
January (2013)274,5718,464$209.11
February228,3498,240$166.42
March198,0967,386$105.61

AdMob

 
All games
Total$495.84
ImpressionsClicksRevenue
December166,6861,251$73.04
January (2013)477,6163,914$126.47
February559,3504,137$121.85
March479,1514,352$174.48

AppBrain

$22.10

Paid Games

B&N – 54 sales, $37.25

Google – No idea. I’ve been getting a 404 error when I try to access the Play Store developer console

Samsung app store

Bojan asked for data on this. Unfortunately, the data isn’t as exciting as I’d hoped. I suspect Bus Jumper will do better here than Neil Rajah, like it has everywhere else. But right now, I don’t have the time to go through the effort of listing Bus Jumper on the Samsung store.

Neil Rajah had 965 downloads from the Samsung store in March. About 600 of those downloads were in the first 2 days the app was listed (which means they probably have something like a ‘Just In’ listing). After that, it’s settled down to 10-20 downloads a day. That’s about 1/10th the downloads from the Play Store.

 

Android game development income stats – February

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Mar 102013
 
This entry is part 24 of 26 in the series Android Income Stats

February’s numbers are almost identical to January’s.

Ad Revenue

There are still a lot of Bus Jumper installs out there that have the old ads going to Mobclix. About a month ago, Mobclix paid me for June and July, and that’s the last payment I’ve seen from them. For Neil Rajah, the bulk of the downloads are from the Google Play store, so that’s all switched over to AdMob for the banner ads (the 320×250 ‘interstitial’) is still going to Mobclix.

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Android game development income stats – January

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Feb 092013
 
This entry is part 23 of 26 in the series Android Income Stats

January was my first full month with the ads in Neil Rajah and Bus Jumper switched over to AdMob. As many others have reported, income is lower through AdMob, but I’m hoping the payments will be more predictable. Mobclix finally paid me for June and July of last year, but they’re still a long way from being back at net-90 payment terms.

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Got a payment from Mobclix

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Feb 062013
 

With my June and July earnings. The last payment I got was in early November. But at least, they paid me when they said they would, and there’s something to be said about that, I guess. But still, I’m not switching back until they get on a steady track of making payments on time.

 

First payment notice from AdMob, and other news

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Feb 022013
 

On Feb 1st I got a payment notice from AdMob for my December earning. About $70, which isn’t bad considering I switched to AdMob a couple of days before Christmas. In hindsight, I should have done it sometime in November, and picked up more of the holiday season. I haven’t received the money yet, they’re switching to some new system where they’ll pay on the 15th, but so far, this is encouraging.

In contrast, I’m still waiting for my June payment from Mobclix. After nagging them with a couple of support tickets, they said that June and July payments will be processed this week, and sent out next week. We’ll see how that goes. The sad thing is, I’m still getting impressions on Mobclix from older versions of my game that are out there, and those are earning more than AdMob. I might still switch back to Mobclix, but at this point I’m going to wait to see if their payment history stabilizes. For June and July, they owe me around $400. That’s pocket change for many other developers, but it’s a pretty good chunk of money for me :)

On another note – I finally caved and installed the AppBrain app wall in both Bus Jumper and Neil Rajah. I was looking for something to replace the 320×250 ‘interstitial’ in Neil Rajah (which is still going to Mobclix, since AdMob doesn’t have an ad in that size), but I decided to keep things simple for now and went with their example integration. So you get a “Do you want to install more apps?” window when you exit the game, and it shows up about once every 3 days. The update has been out for a couple of days, and I haven’t received a flood of negative reviews, so hopefully people won’t mind it too much. We’ll see. Not much revenue from it yet – about 20 cents a day :)

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