I'm thinking about putting ads in my app - any suggestions?

cjz0r

Yeah, don't do it!

kordless

Fusion ads. I've actually found a few apps I needed from their ads.

tvon

Reddit is not a good place to get a sane opinion, unless Reddit happens to be your target audience.

cooleyandy

Ads can be a good income to supplement your main income from selling apps. They can also be a good way to convince your user base to upgrade from your free lite version. But don't expect a lot of money unless you can get your app to the top 100 in its category. Usually, you get around a 1-3% click through rate per ad request. Good Luck :-)

psilokan

Depends on what kind of app it is... Free or paid? Recently the people who make the Shopper app added ads into their PAID version. It resulted in about 80-90% of the users uninstalling it and rating it at its lowest score. Before that they had 5/5 stars and nothing but good reviews. I personally removed it, and installed an out dated pirated version (even though I had paid for it).

A free app, on the other hand, has to make money some how. Ads on a free app don't bother me, as long as they're not obtrusive and don't eat up too much bandwidth.

prettybunnys

google has em

atrais

I use https://www.google.com/adsense/mobile-settings for my blog when people use iPhone on it, I think you can use it in apps too.

nelsongauthier

I don't know anything about you or your app but here's some simple advice:

Adding ads to an iPhone application is a greedy move and will piss off your users.

If I were considering using your app and then discovered it contained ads, I would throw it away and never think about it again. Similarly, if I upgraded to a new version, only to discover the developer had added ads, I would uninstall it immediately and look for alternatives. If none existed and I found the concept useful, I would consider rewriting it from scratch and releasing a new ad-free version myself.

If you're worried about revenue, ads are a bad way to supplement your income.

mr_dbr

Banner ads seem like a hugely bad idea on the iPhone.. It has a fairly small screen, and lacks any kind of multi-tasking (if you click an ad, it exits your application and launches Safari..)

Applications with banner ads stuck at the bottom of each screen should be printed out and set on fire. NetNewsWire and Read It Later do banner advertising quite unobtrusively, but I can't imagine the amount of clicks is significant..

SimplyTweet is the best example of a "Lite" application I'd say (fully functional, no adverts/etc, the paid version just does some more "advanced" things like using multiple accounts)

The in-app purchases seem like they could be used brilliantly. Most of the uses I've seen so far are a little obtrusive (F.A.S.T for example), but I think TwitterFon uses an in-app purchase to remove the adverts, which seems reasonable

imacpu

I'm not working hard on a product so that I can lose $100.

lol I am suck. Released 3 free products in 2009, could have worked contract. Opportunity cost. Honestly prefer releasing awesome stuff and eating oats & ramen.

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