(Sharing) What does being a Top Ranked App in the US means

[kgutteridge]

would be very interested to hear your story, congratulations as well!

[slimothy]

I would love to see some stats. I've been thinking about possibly making an app... would love to see this

[MikeSz_spokko]

Ummm I can tell you our experience

Tiki Totems Premium during OpenFeint's FGOTD promotion achieved top 5 free apps in US with 230.000-235.000 daily downloads and remained there for 2 days. In 7 days when the game was free we had just north of a million downloads

Good luck on the sales to the OP !

[touchten]

Originally Posted by MikeSz_spokko

Ummm I can tell you our experience

Tiki Totems Premium during OpenFeint's FGOTD promotion achieved top 5 free apps in US with 230.000-235.000 daily downloads and remained there for 2 days. In 7 days when the game was free we had just north of a million downloads

Good luck on the sales to the OP !

Hi,

may we know when was this?
which month and year?

thanks

anton

[MikeSz_spokko]

Originally Posted by touchten

Hi,

may we know when was this?
which month and year?

thanks

anton

ummm a week ago

[ArtCoder]

Count me in. It'd be really interesting to read, especially how your free downloads helped your paid app.

[chandler55]

im down for any cool info

[Foursaken_Media]

In regards to free promotion, we used FAAD, stayed free for 5 days and peaked at the #2 free game, getting about 100-150k downloads/day (about a month ago). Before going free we were at 1.99 and seeing less then stellar numbers, but we had leveled off at least. After going free, we dropped the price to .99 and for the first 2 weeks we saw about 7-9x the profit we had leveled off at. Now, 30 days later, we are still earning about 3x the daily profit then we did before we did the free campaign and it looks like we have completely leveled off (though of course there is a revenue share with FAAD for these 30 days -- but if we stay where we're at right now, we're in a much better position then we were before going free).

That being said, I honestly don't believe that going free will do anything for you unless you are able to get top 10 free game and get at least 500k to a million downloads during the free campaign.

[touchten]

Originally Posted by Foursaken_Media

In regards to free promotion, we used FAAD, stayed free for 5 days and peaked at the #2 free game, getting about 100-150k downloads/day (about a month ago). Before going free we were at 1.99 and seeing less then stellar numbers, but we had leveled off at least. After going free, we dropped the price to .99 and for the first 2 weeks we saw about 7-9x the profit we had leveled off at. Now, 30 days later, we are still earning about 3x the daily profit then we did before we did the free campaign and it looks like we have completely leveled off (though of course there is a revenue share with FAAD for these 30 days -- but if we stay where we're at right now, we're in a much better position then we were before going free).

That being said, I honestly don't believe that going free will do anything for you unless you are able to get top 10 free game and get at least 500k to a million downloads during the free campaign.

couldnt agree more with you..

personally I am pro getting your lite up there rather than forsaking your high ranking, and "hope" for your current customer base to tell your friend to buy the game..

BUT having said that, I know it works for some people..

and congrats to you Foursaken_Media

[slimothy]

Hey, when do you suspect you will be releasing this PDF? Will it be public post on here? Or a PM on here? I can't wait.