Your ideas for a smart strategy to unlock premium content with ads

[Mac]

@javaexp

The best would do is ask them to do a post on their facebook wall or tweet the link to my app before they can see the locked content. But do it only when you know the user is from Indonesia (or from some place where he can’t do IAP). For rest of the users, you can have IAP and don’t ask for FB or TW post. That way it would be perfect balance of monetization and promotion. Some work on your part but worth the amount of exposure you will get from facebook and twitter promotion.

Thanks for your answer, this is definitely not a bad idea. Though I am not sure how efficient sharing an app on a facebook wall really is. And I assume it gets flagged as spam quickly by facebook users. I have done something similar in another app, where this time I use in app currency. Like, “share this app on facebook and get 10 coins” and from my analytics it doesn’t seem to bring significant new installs. My set up is pretty basic, as I can’t detect if the users has indeed shared the link on facebook, so I have the feeling users are pretty used to this strategy and just click on the button, press back 1/2 second after, and get the reward without even opening facebook

If you or anybody else is using this strategy with a way to make sure user has indeed shared the link before giving the reward (maybe with facebook sdk) I would love some feedback

[Magnesus]

@Mac

BTW I think the easy answer to my question is: what the f*** Google is waiting for allowing Android users to pay through carrier? In countries like Indonesia, Philipines etc it would increase a lot both developpers revenue AND google revenue. Perhaps some law issue or

Maybe carriers want 50% like they take with SMS based payments.

[Skurry]

@Mac

BTW I think the easy answer to my question is: what the f*** Google is waiting for allowing Android users to pay through carrier? In countries like Indonesia, Philipines etc it would increase a lot both developpers revenue AND google revenue. Perhaps some law issue or

SingTel introduces carrier billing for Google Play Store purchases - Crave - Mobile Phones - CNET Asia

[Mac]

Thanks for the link Skurry, this is a good news. Although from this part of the world, it seems to me Singapore is not the location with the biggest potential, since many people already use their credit card to buy my apps. Indonesia is very large and I was thinking there is more potential outside of Singapore… Anyway Google has to start somewhere he? So good news for the long term.

If anybody is using SingTel carrier billing in his app please share your comments / thoughts!

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Until Google can expand outside it’s handful of countries for developers being able to publish paid apps, it’s pretty much useless for those folks, but good for general ecosystem.

I wonder what SingTel etc. finally managed to extract from Google ?

If Google is paying SingTel some 50% of the 30% that Google collects or what ?

[BaksaiApps]

Does anybody have any info related to the addition of new paid application seller countries?

[Skurry]

@Mac

Thanks for the link Skurry, this is a good news. Although from this part of the world, it seems to me Singapore is not the location with the biggest potential, since many people already use their credit card to buy my apps. Indonesia is very large and I was thinking there is more potential outside of Singapore… Anyway Google has to start somewhere he? So good news for the long term.

If anybody is using SingTel carrier billing in his app please share your comments / thoughts!

Read the the last paragraph in the link above. It’s somewhat hard to understand, but it sounds like SingTel (partially) owns Telkomsel which operates in Indonesia, and might be planning to roll this out there as well.

I also found this post which says it’s already available?

DailySocial - Google Play Store Adds Support For Telkomsel?s Carrier Billing | Indonesian Tech Startup Media