Need help from fellow UK corona developers!

General (non-technical) Marketing and Monetization
#1

My app is riding high at number 7 in the overall UK free apps chart, number 6 in games.

However, some UI issues have resulted in a number of bad reviews, to the point where I’m at 2.5 stars. 71 reviews out of 200,000 downloads must mean there are a lot of people enjoying the game who haven’t bothered to review it :frowning:

I have fixed all the issues but am still waiting for apple to review the update. In the meantime any positive reviews would be much appreciated to help push that average up a little until I can push the update.

I honestly didn’t expect the app to do anything as I was beaten to the punch by a couple of weeks by some competitors, so this has been an eye-opener in terms of making sure everything is as good as it can be before release…on the other hand if I’d waited another week I might have missed whatever wave I am currently riding!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-logos-quiz/id541700312?mt=8 [import]uid: 93133 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 329792[/import]

#2

Hey congrats!

How did you get up to 70+ reviews and that high download count? Did you do some marketing? I for one am having trouble with the review count so your insights would be really helpful [import]uid: 144908 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120276[/import]

#3

No marketing at all - I think football apps will always do fairly well as there aren’t too many of them about. It got 5,000 downloads on the first day which I guess was enough to get it in the top 20 in Sports and Trivia, and just escalated from there.

Unfortunately I then screwed up an update and had to remove it from the store for 2 days which lost a lot of momentum. An expensive lesson! [import]uid: 93133 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120290[/import]

#4

That’s too bad about the 2 lost days, but even still 5,000 downloads on the first day is incredible. Regarding the review count, did you put in an alert asking for a rating? I have such a low number of ratings… around 4 ratings with 4-5 stars in the US. I just added one for my game and I’m still waiting for Apple to review the update. I hope that does the trick. What did you do in yours? [import]uid: 144908 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120301[/import]

#5

I didn’t put an alert in the first version, and to be honest I think a good number of those early reviews were down to UI issues so I’d have rather done without them. I since put in a pop-up which means a lot more people who actually like the game rather than want to have a moan are rating it. [import]uid: 93133 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120303[/import]

#6

Ah, I know what you mean, I previously got a 3-star review saying that he’ll change it if I add a feature. Good thing he changed it though.

Too bad I’m in the Philippines so I can’t help with your UK ranking. Good luck! I’ll download it later when I get home and review it so that you’ll have something in our market! :slight_smile: [import]uid: 144908 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120304[/import]

#7

Sorry, not in UK - but best of luck to you and huge congrats on ranking so well :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120443[/import]

#8

Hey congrats!

How did you get up to 70+ reviews and that high download count? Did you do some marketing? I for one am having trouble with the review count so your insights would be really helpful [import]uid: 144908 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120276[/import]

#9

No marketing at all - I think football apps will always do fairly well as there aren’t too many of them about. It got 5,000 downloads on the first day which I guess was enough to get it in the top 20 in Sports and Trivia, and just escalated from there.

Unfortunately I then screwed up an update and had to remove it from the store for 2 days which lost a lot of momentum. An expensive lesson! [import]uid: 93133 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120290[/import]

#10

That’s too bad about the 2 lost days, but even still 5,000 downloads on the first day is incredible. Regarding the review count, did you put in an alert asking for a rating? I have such a low number of ratings… around 4 ratings with 4-5 stars in the US. I just added one for my game and I’m still waiting for Apple to review the update. I hope that does the trick. What did you do in yours? [import]uid: 144908 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120301[/import]

#11

I didn’t put an alert in the first version, and to be honest I think a good number of those early reviews were down to UI issues so I’d have rather done without them. I since put in a pop-up which means a lot more people who actually like the game rather than want to have a moan are rating it. [import]uid: 93133 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120303[/import]

#12

Ah, I know what you mean, I previously got a 3-star review saying that he’ll change it if I add a feature. Good thing he changed it though.

Too bad I’m in the Philippines so I can’t help with your UK ranking. Good luck! I’ll download it later when I get home and review it so that you’ll have something in our market! :slight_smile: [import]uid: 144908 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120304[/import]

#13

I played it with my son and have left a nice review on the UK store. I notice that your average rating is now quite good and I see that you have a lot of good reviews recently so congratulations on your success!

At the very first launch, when I pressed on the ‘play’ button, the app exited. I didn’t get any exits afterwards. One difference I noticed was that on first launch it went straight to the menu but afterwards it first showed the full page ad, so I don’t know if the exit was related to the ad not displaying?

The icon looks blue on the app store but is yellow on the iPhone. I guess you’ve used different colours for the different icon sizes. I’ve never seen this done before. Did you do this on purpose?

I see you’re using ads and I’m currently looking at developing an app with ads. Could you tell me which ad service you’re using? Is it Revmob? [import]uid: 29384 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 121140[/import]

#14

Sorry, not in UK - but best of luck to you and huge congrats on ranking so well :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 120443[/import]

#15

I played it with my son and have left a nice review on the UK store. I notice that your average rating is now quite good and I see that you have a lot of good reviews recently so congratulations on your success!

At the very first launch, when I pressed on the ‘play’ button, the app exited. I didn’t get any exits afterwards. One difference I noticed was that on first launch it went straight to the menu but afterwards it first showed the full page ad, so I don’t know if the exit was related to the ad not displaying?

The icon looks blue on the app store but is yellow on the iPhone. I guess you’ve used different colours for the different icon sizes. I’ve never seen this done before. Did you do this on purpose?

I see you’re using ads and I’m currently looking at developing an app with ads. Could you tell me which ad service you’re using? Is it Revmob? [import]uid: 29384 topic_id: 29792 reply_id: 121140[/import]