What Developers Think About Apple's iAd

Nemilar writes "It's been about a week since Apple rolled out its new advertising platform, and developers of iPhone apps are watching the earliest returns to see how much money they can expect to make from these ads. One developer reported Thursday that he earned $1,400 in one day for his flashlight app. The amount iAds pay is 'a high number when you get it, but you don't get it very often,' said Dave Yonamine, the director of marketing at MobilityWare. The article discusses revenue potential in relation to the only other mobile ads platform, AdMob for Android, and claims that iAd paid as much as $148 for the same number of ads as $1 on AdMob; but this extreme ratio is likely to erode as the novelty wears off."

Comments

Good Luck

[Hinhule]

Getting iADBlock on the Appstore.

Re:Good Luck

[BlkRb0t]

I'll get FlashBlock instead, oh wait...

Re:So you pay for your data plan to get iAds

[thetoadwarrior]

On the plus side they are nice shiny ads unlike anything you have seen before.

Re:It's not funny at all. It's a religious obsessi

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah. They're almost as bad as those car owners. Seriously, no 3rd party apps, and more and more crippled every year. I've heard that there are cars that won't let you drive without seat-belts buckled, talk about crippled.

Re:iAD

[harlows_monkeys]

That's nothing. I paid $2500 for a TV, and there are ads on it!