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I have an app published in the Windows store with pubcenter ads but after the recent drop in fill rates (see here) these adverts a providing effectively no revenue (maybe £0.01 in a day occasionally). I wonder if any one knows of any alternatives for advertising.
I have looked at inmobi but their sdk seems to only have out of date documentation that does not work. AdDuplex is also not an option as it is not available for HTML/JS apps.
There are many different PubCenter Alternatives like:
AdDuplex (included with the release as a NuGet package)
Inmobi
Smaato
Google AdMob
MobFox
Inneractive
After you can use an AdRotatorV2 for Windows Phone (https://github.com/Adrotator/AdrotatorV2) which allows you so show different ads and also home made ads.
Personally I use PubCenter and AdDuplex.
You can submit your app into differents advertising such as Smatoo or ad Exchanges like adDuplex.
An ad exchange is a marketplace which allows buying and selling advertisements online in real time. The ad exchanges allow applicants spaces (eg advertisers or agencies) and suppliers, comparing real-time supply and demand advertising and automate the buying and selling spaces publicitaires.Ils also allow, once the defined criteria, almost completely automate the implementation of campaigns.
You can also use Adrotator which allows you to change advertising rule if it does not send you any advertisements. Hope this help you.
I think other ad providers will make sdk for Windows 8 apps once the platform gets more succes. Pubcenter will have to fix things or developers will flock away. Microsoft knows this I suppose...
There is an promotion platform http://adshufflr.com. It shows advertisement, when Pubcenter fails to provide ad.
The best part: only 2 line changes are required to add this network as fallback.
For every 10 ads displayed in your app, you get credit for 9 ads. Which is used in promoting your app.
This all i can say as i am using AdShufflr. Started seeing increase in app downloads
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I have been searching a lot and seen a lot of similar questions but non of them fits in my requirements.
I need to implement Stripe in react-native built using expo XDE. As mentioned in expo docs here: https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/payments.html#importing-payments, I will have to detach my project to implement payment but I don't want to do that. Is there any alternative?
Also other wrappers available on GitHub doesn't facilitates projects built with expo completely. I am unable to find any complete wrapper or at least a guide to build my own.
I am looking for a solution for subscription based model, I need to charge my customers recursively and allow them to upgrade/downgrade their packages during an on going paid/trial period. I don't want to hold credit card information and allow customers to update their billing information whenever needed. Implement refund policies as well.
If you don't want to eject from Expo, you can use StripeCheckout component from expo-stripe-checkout on iOS and Android (though on Android you can still use the Payments module). Here's the link to the repo with further instructions: https://github.com/briansztamfater/expo-stripe-checkout
I recently faced the same issue, this is the conclusion:
Short version: You'll need to detach if you need payments (Stripe) on iOS. (If you don't, juse use the Payments module from Expo - it is not obvious right away, but they do state in the docs that it is based on tipsi-stripe).
Explanation: The Expo SDK used to contain a payments module for both Android & iOS. For the last 3-4 versions of Expo, Payments has been removed from the iOS SDK because "Apple sometimes rejects apps which contain the Stripe SDK but don’t offer anything for sale.".
Reference: https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/payments.html
Solution: detach to ExpoKit, and then add the Payments module manually. I can say from experience this is not a nice or straightforward process, as it first introduced the concept of manually building your app using MacOS/Xcode which is a pain to say the least for a Win user.
If you do not want to detach, it means you will have to implement your own, custom way of communicating with Stripe and not than their official SDK, which will imply PCI compliance issues.
You can all Stripe API directly. map Stripe customer Id and your user id in your backend. then you can call this API's from frontend using stripe customer id.
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Does anybody know ad providers for Windows 8 apps apart from MS and AdDuplex? I'd love to find another one since AdDuplex is simply not working. I'm currently implementing ih-house apps functionality but would rather use a ready one like AdMob's one for example.
On Windows 8 you only have support for
PubCenter
AdDuplex
Inmobi
All the rest are "currently" only available for Windows Phone
However in AdRotator we were able to get most of that list to work through their WebAPI's and we plan to expand WebAPI support to all platforms in AdRotator V2 (http://getadrotator.codeplex.com)
Leadbolt can also be used:
http://www.leadbolt.com/blog/2013/06/official-launch-of-leadbolt-windows-8-sdk
If you have used some of them, please share the results you're getting (fill rate, eCPM).
Thanks.
As far as I know only Microsoft pub center and adduplex were available. now also inmobi provides SDK for advertisements for w8 (js+xaml)
I've been using leadbolt in the last week with this results:
Views/Imps Clicks ECPM EPC CTR Revenue
12,600 128 $0.00 $0.00 1.02% $0.00
Let's sum up: 12600 impressions with 0 revenue.
I'll try inmobi very soon and I'll let you know!!!
MediaBrix, Inmobi, MS ads, LeadBolt etc. have ads. Checkout the list at http://services.windowsstore.com and filter by Advertising.
Also note that ADTECH has recently mentioned in their site that they have a new Windows 8 SDK. http://www.adtech.com/en/
See a list below. More info here.
AdRotator
Microsoft PubCenter
AdDuplex
Google AdMob
Inner-Active / Nokia Ad Exchange
MobFox
Smaato (Not for Non Location aware projects, see above link)
Default House Ads - A project based Ad the developer implements (docs pending)
Support for no ad display
Both Location Aware and Non Location Aware libs now available
I've been using Leadbolt and PubCenter for a while, with very poor results in revenue. A few weeks ago I discovered DesktopAd (www.desktopad.com) which gives me 10x the revenue than I was receiving with PubCenter, and also a fill rate almost 100%. For Windows 8 developers it's worth to give it a try.
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I am looking to add an ecommerce module to sell software components to my website. The website uses Dotnetnuke 6 / SQL Server and I have an HSBC business account that I would like to receive payment into.
I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a good DotNetNuke ecommerce module first of all. One that is suited to selling software components. For instance, a user should be able to access their components (once payment processed) and download directly from the site. They should be able to access the download link for a specific period of time (e.g. 1 year) and receive updates during this timeframe. When the subscription time expires they should be emailed with a notification to renew.
Payment processing seems to be a bit of a dark art - I read that HSBC provides an API direct to business accounts, however are there any DotNetNuke modules that cater for this? The last thing I want is a professional website, product and a shabby ecommerce module that redirects customers to paypal!!
Many thanks,
Try DNNspot e-commerce the free download is full featured for up to 4 products.
Supports electronic delivery of software, and has the ability to call an external web service should you want to write your own licensing generator or connect it with something else. It works with PayPal, PayPal Pro and Authorize .Net.
OR you can use something like Digital River (not a DNN module)
I think Smith Cart also has support for electronic deliverables.
Take a look at NBStore, http://nbstore.codeplex.com/. It's an open source E-Commerce module that's very well done.
Take a look at AspDotNetStorefront - it powers over 10,000 stores and provides for digital downloads.
This can be used with DotNetNuke using an extension we developed called InnestoNuke. You can see videos at http://www.InnestoNuke.com/videos/
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This is my very first post in Stackoverflow, but I've found this site very useful.
Here is my first question.
I've been searching the web for an answer for a while now. I've contacted Titanium and no luck.
Why should users have an account with Titanium?
Do you have to buy another account than "FREE" to be able to use full Titanium functionality?
Do you have to buy an account to be able to release your app?
Thanks in advance.
The Titanium framework is free and open source. You do not need to be a premium user to build apps with the Titanium framework and/or distribute the apps.
The only reason you may want to be a Titanium premium user is for dedicated support and the Ti+ Modules. There is a forum where you can get support and of course stackoverflow (all for free)! The Ti+ modules extend the core functionality of Titanium with for example in-app payments. You can of course write your own module if you know a little Objective-C to get around this.
Bottom line is, i've found it more than superb for building a large majority of apps I've had to build and i'm not a premium user. The documentation is sound. And for in-app payments I've rolled my own module, which I am going to open source in the next few weeks.
Leon from what I've been told a Titanium account is for fast support. A recent tweet from the team suggest they are not getting the number of sales they'd like due to current high pricing. I haven't personally distributed an app but I can't imagine an account would be required especially since you can build for the device straight from xCode or command line if needed using the build/ folder. I'm sure some other people here will have some better advice then me in this category but I hope this helps.
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I have an app and would like to know if there is any kind of API for a service similar to Shazam where I can hold my phone up to a music source and be told of the song guess? It could work well with my app, but I can't find anything about Shazam API and I don't know any other service that does what I want (but am open to anything)
The free and open source alternative is Echo Nest / Echo Print. They claim to have a database of 30 million songs and 1.5 million artists, and they provide free access for both commercial and non-commercial use. Probably worth checking out!
Update: here's the Echo Nest iOS library
ACRCloud supports Music/Audio search engine and SDK for iOS/Android/Linux, which could be downloaded after registration (http://console.acrcloud.com/signup).
There are three tiers:
Free tier, for demo/prototyping
Accelerating tier, for startups
Commercial tier
Audio recognition services are provided by a number of companies, many of which license these services for a fee. None are cheap, requiring significant repositories of signatures / music catalogs and computational capacity. Check out the folks who own the technology used by Shazam - Landmark Digital Services, the makers of Soundhound - Midomi, or Gracenote's MusicID. There are others, but these are probably three of the biggest players currently.
UPDATE (11/8/12): To note, Shazam apparently has reacquired the rights to the recognition technology and Landmark Digital is now defunct. Also, as noted in another answer, Echonest now provides a recognition technology, Echoprint, that for some uses appears to be free.