On January 22nd I uploaded my first app to the Android Market, Liverpool FC Songs is a very simple app that has lyrics to ten Anfield fan favourites and links to the best versions of these songs being sung in Anfield on YouTube. Since the apps functionality was quite limited and I was just testing the waters of the Android Market, I decided to give the profit from this app to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign. The app is currently priced at €0.99, Google takes 30c from every App purchase and then a fee of 3.4% and 0.35c for monthly processing fees.
As of today, the 13th of March, I have had 99 orders of the app through the Android Market, with no promotion of the app at all. Of these 99 orders 15 have been cancelled through Google’s 15 minute return time and 2 have been cancelled due to payment being declined.
Of the 72 complete orders, 62 are currently active installs although for some reason the Android Market’s breakdown is 91 total installs and 62 active (68%); this seems a little unfair as Google may be using the percentage of active installs as a ranking factor in the Android Market search.
So from the last 7 weeks in the Android Market, Liverpool FC Songs has earned about €47.64 for the Hillsborough Justice Campaign – not a great deal but for an app that doesn’t do much earning €6 a week isn’t too bad.
Using the experience of creating and launching this app I’m hoping to launch a game soon after Paddys Day, this will be a Premier League Trivia app with a twist – keep an eye on the blog or on @rossmulcahy on Twitter for more updates!!