This report is late (almost like usual…) as I have made a little holidays in December away from the computer. So here is a November 2011 income summary. Moreover I have decided to publish December report with the 2011 annual summary by the end of the January. So if you are interested in my income math you are welcome to watch my blog (at least till the end of this month).
Not a big surprise…
There is no big surprise among my income streams (I have to work on it), but I am again very positively amazed by the total numbers. I have reached another record with Android ads earnings. I can hardly believe in my month to month grow by myself. Fortunately I know the trigger that have started my income boost and as reported by many of my eBook readers it is working well for them too. It looks that December Android ads income is very close to November so it is slowly getting stabilized but more info will be put in the December summary.
Here is the summary…
As always here is your (and mine) favorite part. The real numbers. As the little extra this month you may want to check my ads income balance screenshot attached.
- 26.32€ (-8.38€) – AdSense – as I have removed AdSense ads from most of my posts this income stream is slowly decreasing month by month.
- $83.19 (+$33.47) – Amazon Affiliate Program – Just a few more sales than previous month made me additional buck.
- $133.45 (-$41.90) – iStockPhoto – This income stream is not maintained for many months and is not looking as attractive as it used too.
- $1,459.27 (+$199.90) – “Make Money on Android” – Sold 10 copies month of my eBook than previously. Big thanks to all buyers!
- $5,142.70 (+$1035.88) – Ads in my free Android apps – That was another crazy month! Income has grown again with quite a nice amount. Just if you are curious how my unpaid ads balance is looking just right now you may check this screenshot. This is income generated in last two months.
Some things to consider…?
Congratulations on another great month’s income! That unpaid balance is crazy.
Good job increasing the earnings so much over September as well. Just out of curiosity – I noticed a big spike in new users over all my apps during November. Did you see the same?
Oh, and your income report might be late, but you’re still doing better than me. I’m still working on October’s report :P
Hello. Thank you for your comment. I see rather constant grow of new users. November is no different. Waiting for your report!
Hi, i’m interested in buying your ebook but have no access to paypal, can i pay you via credit card via ejunkie, alert pay or 2checkout?
Please i need to buy before u stop selling your ebook.
Please email me via my contact form.
At some point you mentioned that the book was updated. Is there a way for me to get the update? (I bought it in August or September, iirc).
Last version is 1.1. If you have any older please contact me with your transaction id via email.
Ah, never mind then. I thought there was an update since then.
Kreci,
You mentioned House Ads before for unfilled inventory before. However, AdMob no longer uses it. Have you found a way around that?
Admob IS still using it and it works very well.
Where is this option visible? :/
I don’t think so. It’s a very recent change. You can no longer set House ads to be play unused inventory. Instead, you simply set the target amount of impressions and it simply plays as a part of the regular rotation. At least that is how my AdMob is setup.
Done this screenshot just for you a few minutes ago: click.
Ahhh, I don’t have the House Ads tab: http://imgur.com/Z639F
Also, in the book, your screenshot has an Unused Inventory column. My AdMob does not. http://imgur.com/yYMUo
Maybe this gets enabled when you get to your level of impressions.
so it means that on old accounts it’s visible,
and on new it’s disabled
I believe it may be the case…
Hey Kreci, glad to see you’re doing so well.
Can I ask for more details on your Amazon Affiliate Earnings? How many products are sold and what sort of traffic is it taking to achieve those sales?
I am selling on average 10-30 items per month. Mostly from it equipment and books. Some computer hardware is selling via my blog at http://www.minimotherboard.com and some via this blog.
Thanks Kreci, hope it keeps going well for you.
Congratulations on your growing success!!! I always look forward to your report as it’s very encouraging!!!
Happy New Year to you!!!
Waiting for your December report man! I’ve started with apps, but hoping to learn a thing or two from people like you. Keep up the good work!
Hi,
could you share some info about how much download you have, how many active apps and impressio stats. Thanks.
M
5k$ monthly from AdMob is a VERY good income! Congratulations man! Think what would be if you didn’t decide to take a break! (your wife would kill you ;))
Do you also suffer from a drop of both eCPM and CTR since 01 January? I had a very good December (for my standards – made 1100 usd). It also seems that “rules of the game” have changed – it looks that there is no first day and no refresh “bonus” at all. Time to change the strategy. Do you use ad filtering?
Hello. Yes I have lower CTR and eCPM. But there is how you call it “refresh bonus” next day. Anyway lower than on the end of the year. Most probably because of the end of most xmass promotions.
Hi KreCi,
as you have already noticed, I wrote an income report that was pretty much inspired by your work. I would like to share it here for your visitors if you dont mind:
http://www.eiswuxe.de/looking-back-my-recent-nine-months-as-an-indie-developer/
It would be great if you could mention my website / reports in one of your future posts!
Kepp up the good work
Hello Kreci ,
Did you ever have problem with latest admob sdk? , i just recently added new app and my app status after working some time turned to red (inactive) from green.
Do you think admob disabled app or it is some software error?
Hello. I have latest sdk integrated and had no any problems. Let me know when you find out what the problem is.
Hi Have you use score ninja, i go to the site but is not work for me, i make any mistake?
It worked for me last time I tried it. It’s hard to tell what may be wrong without any logs.
No , in the site after push create board, nothing.
Great report as usual Kreci! Looking forward to your annual earnings report as I’m sure those are great as well. I’ve just finished and released my first serious app, I say serious because my very first app was a Bob Marley wallpaper app(close to 10,000 installs and growing). But this is more of a utility app that lets users easily create photo albums. I’ve released a free version with Ads and paid version without, do you think this was a good idea? I’ve uploaded the paid version to Amazon as well and I am getting more installs there than on the market, but I worry that having a free version will hinder my apps success(financially). Should I have only made the paid?
I am providing only free versions via Android Market as my country is not allowed to publish paid ones. And because of this I am writing apps that will be popular as free ones and most probably not to successful as paid ones (at least for Android). I am doing well with free versions only. But your case with utility app may be different.
Hey that ads income u mentioned ($5,142.70 ),how many free apps ad fetching you that ? and can u mention the download count of each app? or least the one with max download ?
AdMob is piece of shit:
http://googlemobileads.blogspot.com/2012/02/admob-auction-enhancements.html
in my case CPC dropped from 3,9 cents to 1,9 cents
maybe those f… monopolists wants clicks for free? or 99% money for them?
Thanks for the link. I do not have updated stats from yesterday (those are late over 24h) so have no idea what the impact for my earnings may be. Will see it in e next few days.
Hello!
Do you know exact nmbers now? My CPC dropped to the half of what it used to be before 15th.
btw.
which ad network has avg CPC > 3 cents
and fill rate > 90%
(for normal banners)
?
From what I tried Admob was best till now.
That’s great. Seriously, today a though came into my mind that android developers must be earning a handsome amount of money. I googled it, found your blog which you wrote in Nov 2010, and i was thinking .. “this guy must be earning a very handsome amount of money” and through another website i came to this latest update from you. Best of luck, and i feel motivated :)