KreCi has shared his income details from Android Market at http://www.kreci.net/reports/android-developer-income-report/

He started to learn development for Android on April and published his first app on May. Today he has 6 free apps published on Android market and made money buy publishing adverts from mobile ad companies listed here.

His income as follows:

May 2010 – $4.92
June 2010 – $138.87
July 2010 – $538.26
August 2010 – $920.00
September 2010 – $1545.45
October 2010 – $1059.31

As you see, you can generate quite nice steady income by publishing just free apps!

You can read my exprience on Android Market here

A rough advert slipped in to Admob's publisher network costed money to quite few people who use iPhone application called Talking Tom Cat.

Application designed for kids was using Admob adverts to support free version and some adverts was designed to trick users/children to click and dial premium rate numbers.

Admob said: "Click-to-call ads with premium numbers are classified as age-appropriate and normally would not appear in apps for children. We will work with the app developer to block these ads if we discover they are showing."

From TheRegister;

[Originally posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:11:13 AM]

I firmly believe today's Admob is a product of small publishers or as some say hobbyist wapmasters. If you have spent some time on mobile internet you'll notice that majority of sites out there are small hobby sites that are hosted on free services. Admob gave those people a chance to make couple of dollars and enjoy their hobby more.

Anyone remembers first months of admob will remember their approach to the content of the sites that publish Admob adverts. Admob always had their content guidelines but they weren't strictly applied at first. This would be due to lack of staff to check each and every site, but whatever the reason is; it helped a lot to Admob and to their revenue stream. Everyone was happy.

But as Admob grew, number of unhappy publishers grew too. Simply because Admob started to force their content guidelines. Small/hobbyist publishers don't really care about content on their site or if they do, they usually haven't got enough time or resources to maintain compliance of their site with content guidelines. According to Admob they have 15K+ publishers. Although i have no real statistics I believe at least %70 of that 15K+ are small/hobbyist publishers.

Last content check by Admobe done by their outsourced team in India just before Google deal announced and many publisher accounts got closed including one that users Youtube api to create mobile Youtube access site who was publisher of Admob almost since they started business. Reason was that some video titles had keywords like SEXY - HOT . If you check Admob guidelines you'll see that there is no mentioning of keywords like SEXT - HOT being against their gudile lines and i myself seen many ads on Admob's network using those keywords.

From what I have read on Admob mailing list there is another problem. Admob's attitude to generated income of closed publisher accounts. They do not pay any money owed! They do not give you any answer about money owned to you! As small publisher (1) (2)


My worry is this type of attitude against small/hobbyist publishers will increase with Google's take over.

I hope I am wrong.