AFAIR when i entered games in Google Play i saw categories like “Puzzle Games” with “Recommenend for you” subtitle etc. Basically every games category has been there with “Recommended for you”.
Now i don’t see such categories anywhere. Also my games downloads dropped recently. Did Google changed or broken something??
Well, in our case downloads dropped from 12.000 a day to 4000 a day. The dropped started on December 31 from one minute to another as if a feature stopped.
Yes, our app wasn’t featured. We released a new app 45 days ago which got a huge boost in downloads, increasing day by day from 50 downloads to 12.000 downloads. The reason for the increase was that we appeared in the similar lists of almost every game from ketchapp, which also was the reason we appeared in the recommendations from ketchapp game downloaders. The same second this system disappeared our downloads got a massive drop.
Found the section. No idea if we were displayed there or if the increasement was too slow.
We use Unity Ads for rewarded videos and Chartboost + Admob for Insterstitials. Most income is from rewarded videos. Almost no income from Interstitials.
How did you manage to get on the similar list of apps from KetchApp?
Their apps have 1m + downloads.
To my knowledge you’d already need a high number of installs to be on their similar lists. Am I wrong?
Yep, this is just a matter of statistics. Usually you need more downloads than another app to be listed there, because of a mathematically natural match. Our app though was optimized to appear in these lists and we where already listed in their similar section when our game only had between 1000 and 10.000 downloads. We just had enough similar users already to appear there.