Most of the review sites will be willing to review your app for free if they like it enough, so maybe you can try that before paying. We sent a request for review to the Android Police, and they liked it and put it on their last ‘Best New Android Apps’ round up (38 Best New Android Apps And Live Wallpapers From The Last 3 Weeks (10/31/12 - 11/21/12)),
It got us about 250-300 installs in the day it was published and the day after that, and it also got us a few premium paying costumers. It’s not that much, but it gave us a starting push. Also, after android police published it I found the app recommended in a few other sites, like livewallpapers.org and a site from Brazil that got us about 30-40 more Brazilian users, and more…
However, most other sites ignored our review request or asked us to pay for it, which we didn’t do, because we didn’t want to invest money at the time. If you do have a budget to spend I think that if the free stuff doesn’t happen, then it’s worth the paying, but as I mentioned - expect a few hundred downloads, probably not more than that, so consider how much you are willing to pay accordingly…
Thanks My app is the MonsterHood live wallpaper: http://goo.gl/BXcfe
Still thinking about how to get it exposed even more, since the android police review was almost the only thing that got us some users,
no great ideas so far…
And by the way this is the site in Portuguese: MonsterHood Live Wallpaper download - Baixaki
They wrote their own text (didn’t copy ours from the play store) and they did quite a good job (I google translated it) ! I think the text is even more fun and inviting then what we wrote here at the studio,
and they add their own pros and cons.
I found this website when I Goggled up ‘MonsterHood’ to see if I get any interesting results. I’m wondering if there’s a way to contact this sort of websites in foreign languages (or even find the good ones) and ask for reviews, since it is a very good exposure of the app for non-english speakers
Hi, sorry to hear that. If they declined to review it, try their paying services. However, I had two reviews, but it didn’t help with downloads that much, because the reviews aren’t from “big” sites. But I did see a dramatic increase in downloads when I decided to advertise my app. Hope this helps somewhat.
my experience - i had a really nice review from one of the small site too - well it did absolutely nothing to create downloads . It was free so no harm done. what worked for me very surprisingly - i found a guy on fiverr.com - for 5 bucks he posted on Facebook my app and the link to the store to like 35 android fan groups all over the world . as this is the ONLY promo i did for that app - i can say that those $5 generated easily 200 downloads.
the moral of the story - you never know what will work. If you have the time and a few dollars - give it shot, whatever it is ! i will start a new post soon - i’m trying that addmefast.com thing - will see how it goes - it is free so i’ll probably just waste some time:)
If you’re asking me - I advertised it on AppsZoom.com. But I’ve used their $50 credit which you get when you sign up as a developer (free). Other than that, I only do cross-promotion, however, when I’ll have some extra money to spend, I’ll advertise again.
Two of my apps have AirBop implemented, but I did not use it yet - maybe I’ll send a messages to my users about the new apps. But I’ll limit the messages to 1 per 2/3 weeks.
If you are asking me… then I have concluded my marketing strategy at my blogs and forums @ CreatioSoft Forum - Android marketing
May be it can help you out!!
Best review service is on Fiverr. Look up “givemeapps”. Their youtube channel has over 50 in depth reviews of apps, a lot of them android. It’s like $5 to promote your app, and for $25 you get a full out review. I have no regrets and plan to use them again in the future.
My app was featured (for free) by androidtapp.com as part of “25 apps you should try this weekend”. It didnt bring me any downloads… or if it did, less than 25 a day hehe. Better than nothing anyway…
Thanks for sharing, good to know. I guess you can count on having some effect only if you decide to advertise with the biggest players in the field, but that costs way too much money. My app (Memory Training Game) was also reviewed by two smaller review services (for free) and it didn’t bring anything.
My game “Scribble Racer” got a short review by Android Authority in January (Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - Top 5 Apps! [video]). The impact was very high (in my opinion). I had more than 2000 downloads on that day (usually I had about 200 downloads/day). But the downloads went down very fast (the second day I had about 1000 downloads and then it levelled off at 300-400/day). I payed nothing for the short review and I didn’t even ask them to do one. I just had luck.
Then in March I wrote about my game in the xda-developers forum. Someone from xda developers liked it and wrote an article about it: Mindlessly Addicting Fun with Scribble Racer ? xda-developers . At that day i got about 1700 downloads. But again downloads went down very fast the following days.
Currently I’m looking out for more opportunities to promote Scribble Racer. I wrote several review sites and asked them to review my game. I never got an answer.
Yep, that’s my story about reviews.
Hi
For the android app promotion you need to increase your app download, But
before that you need to have five start rating then only you app search result will be on the top
of the google play market.
So Increasing your rating + increasing your app download + social media (google plus or twitter)
you can achieve your app on the top of the market place.
And all these service you will get here in very small amount.
Check it out.
My app is the MonsterHood live wallpaper: