yalla apps monetize your wp7 apps
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Presentation from our WP7 workshop participation at Microsoft.TRANSCRIPT
What is Yalla Apps?
• Currently the Windows Phone Marketplace is not available in the MEA regions
• Yalla Apps enables developers to upload their applications to the Windows Phone Marketplace
• Yalla Apps receives applications from developers and submit them to the global Marketplace and lets developers unlock their device for testing.
• The portal offers development support, support forums as well as a module market where developers can share code and components
Some numbers last month 50
2,000 100,000
Some stats • 97% of developers can publish apps due to Global Publishers
• 21,000 apps published
• 3,000 new apps in the last 2 weeks
• 100 apps are published per day
• 49% free and 51% are paid apps
• 6500 approved developers over 40K registered
• 1,200 new developers register each week
• The average WP7 end user downloads 12 apps per month
• 10% conversion rate for paid apps that support trial functionality
• Promoted content gets 500% uplift in downloads and purchases
• Paid apps average selling price 2.93USD
How does it work? • Developers submit their application as they would on the
Windows Phone Marketplace
• Yalla Apps will take the application and submit it to the UK Market on the behalf of the developers
• Yalla Apps will forward certification reports to the developers
• Download reports will be shared through the Yalla Apps portal
How much do I pay? • Developers pay $99 for an annual subscription. • Payment can be done via PayPal or MoneyBookers • Each annual subscription gets 100 credits automatically. • Submit a Paid App for free • Submit a Free App for 1 credit only • First device unlock for free.
Students get free annual subscription through DreamSpark
Mango Features • New discoverability due to improved marketplace
interface
• Dedicated games marketplace interface (30% of current apps are games)
• Filter capabilities by content type to find relevant apps easier
Beta Distribution Service • Adding up to 100 testers to your app
• Send deeplink to your testers
• Less unlocks required for BETA testers
• Must be free app
• Expires after 90 days
• Yalla Apps support TBC!
Private Distribution Service • Deeplink to app sent to unlimited end users
• App updates are pushed to users
• You can make the app public at any time
• Great for corporate apps
Making Money • Trial API for paid apps 70x more downloads, 10%
conversion rate from trial to paid resulting in 7x times higher sales
• Don't give away too much of your trial game
• Make the trial experience compelling
• Time or capability based trials work
• Incorporate ads in the trial to monetize (Coming Soon)
Making Money • Use live tiles with push notifications to increase usage and ad
sales
• Make your live tile make stand out
• Add live tile support to app description as users are actively looking for live tile apps
• Price it right, don't underprice yourself
• Experiment with different price points
• Start at upper price range, easier to cut than increase
• Support multiple languages to create apps more relevant to other countries
Making Money • Get promoted, editorial promotion increases downloads
by up to 2000%
• Make your app look like an integrated part of WP7
• Good performance
• Content quality
• Good usability and functionality
• First use should be intuitive
If you include the AdDuplex ads in your App and you submit it to Yalla Apps before the 30th of August 2011, you automatically get a voucher for your ad to display 20,000 times on the AdDuplex advertising network. This voucher is worth $30 or more!
How to reach us? • Website : www.yallaapps.com
• Facebook : www.facebook.com/yallaapps
• Twitter : www.twitter.com/yallaapps
• Email : [email protected]