[Everplay - Gameads] Experiences? Revenue rate?

Hello folks,

since Unity partnered up with Everplay, I may want to integrate Everplay - gameads in an android game I'm currently developing.

Since Everplay doesn't have a big FAQ on their site according revenue, payment of ads etc., I'm asking you

Do some of you guys have any experience with the services of Everplay - gameads?
How high is the revenue rate per click?
How will the profit be distributed to me? On a monthly base?

Is there maybe a bigger article which covers such questions?

All the best,
Sebi

 

No experiences anyone ?

 

Hi All,

I'm interested too. I'm always lurking around looking through google and the various forums for my answers, but I haven't been able to turn up anything in depth (and how I landed here!)

I was about to commit my mobile game that's in beta to the admob bandwagon, but saw how many major mobile companies are on or have switched to everplay. I've been seriously considering the ad-service due to the advertisements linking to things that I personally would click on as well as the unity plugin support not to mention their extra features that can be used to generate a community around your game.

I'm extremely interested in hearing some experiences with the service. Is it a viable source of generating revenue? For those who have experienced multiple ad services; Are there differences in how often people are clicking on ads since they're game related? If you're willing to share the information - the amount of users and daily traffic vs the revenue generated per month?

All potentially secret hush hush information so if you're ok with sharing it in a PM I'd still love to hear from you if you're willing to share.

Thanks for any replies!
JKB

 

Bump!

 

I have just integrated GameAds into one of my games, which will be released in the next days. I'll report back with a little more info then.

From their Terms of Use about payment:

5. PAYMENT

5.1 Payment Amounts. Upon the Publisher fulfilling its obligations under this Agreement the Publisher shall receive payment based on video views of Ads served through the Service by the End Users. Applifier reserves the right to determine the amount to be paid to Publisher for each video view by an End User based on factors such as the geographic location of the user, quality of the traffic sent by the Publisher’s Application(s), or other means decided on by Applifier in its sole discretion. Applifier reserves the right to deduct from the payments (i) any refunds to advertisers; (ii) a flat deduction (as determined by Applifier from time to time) to cover expenses related to discounts, campaign referral fees, payment transaction fees, telecommunications, data center and other serving costs, cost-of-money/bad-debt fees and other writeoffs, taxes and currency exchange fees; and (iii) any amounts payable by Applifier to providers of targeting, reporting, verification or other data, technology or services utilized for a given advertisement campaign hereunder. The Publisher acknowledges and agrees that the cost per view (“CPV”) payment that the Publisher shall receive hereunder shall be reported and paid on an aggregate basis. Any disputes concerning payment must be contested in writing; failure to contest any payment within thirty (30) days of receipt of Applifier’s payment of Publisher’s invoice constitutes waiver of any claim relating thereto. All decisions regarding collection of debt from advertisers are within the sole discretion of Applifier. For the avoidance of doubt all payments hereunder are based on advertisement events actually served by the Service, and not on requests for advertisements made by any Application or web site.

5.2 Payment Terms. Amounts earned for a video view shall be calculated to their final value seven (7) days after a video view in the Publisher’s Application has been completed and will be reflected to Publisher’s account. Publisher may request payment from Publisher’s account by issuing an invoice for the requested payment amount to Applifier by email to accountspayable-fi@applifier.com, provided that invoices may be issued to Applifier no more than once every thirty (30) days.. Applifier shall wire payments to the bank account indicated by the Publisher within forty five (45) calendar days after receiving a valid invoice. Payment may not be requested for any amount less than one hundred (100) US dollars except for the final payment of remaining funds on Publisher’s account when the Publisher is terminating this Agreement. However, Applifier may initiate payments to Publisher at any time in its sole discretion, and such payment may be in whatever amounts and by whatever payment methods are determined by Applifier.

5.3 Taxes etc. Each Party is responsible for paying any taxes, duties or fees for which it is liable.

 

I'm surprised no one from unity has posted here with some info....didn't unity just buy Everplay.

 

bump again

 

Seems that a lot of people are interested in this topic. Nice to see that

@Felandil, I sent you a PM

 

Yeah, I answered yesterday or so ;-)

For all the people wondering how to get GameAds running in a project .. I've created a little HowTo. If there is something missing or you think I should add something, please let me know.

Click Me!

 

Is it possible for you to provide anverage/aproximae eCPM for android devices and IOS?

 

Does every play only record the screen or can it record from a render texture or something?

 

Can't say anything about everyplay but gameads seems to have problems with android 2.3.6(at least on samsung galaxy s1, it worked with android 2.2 but unity dropped support for api level <9). would like to know if someone can confirm this or knows a way to make it work... i guess galaxy s1 with latest firmware is still widespread enough to care .

 

I've been trying to get the ads implemented into our game but i'm having a lot of trouble with it conflicting with other plugins we use. Ideally i want code base to cover all the different platforms we cover, which include android/ios/amazon/ouya as well as usage of the Google Play services. Anyone had success implementing it with other libraries?

Felandil i was wondering if you would update your site to include your modified Manifest file, just so i could have a look over it, rather than downloading the whole edited package.

Ta.

 

hi!

i'll implement it asap.

this is what it looks like: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1d26llf48ja5iv4/AndroidManifest.xml

with facebook sdk and applifier

 

I worry that Everplay may be too small at the moment for me to consider implementing it. In the on the off chance I strike gold and create a viral game, I wouldn't want to have to change out the ad network because it could not keep the fill rate high enough.

 

1) What volume of impressions do you get on an average day?

2) Also what would you say the average CPC (or CPI / CPM) rate is for united states users with a 2D platform game on android viewing an interstitial video. Any sort of data would be very useful for us all. Your company should consider publishing such info on its site too.

 

I posted this in a different thread that was dead... so, here it is:

"Would we be able to incorporate everyplay/gamead banners into our websites as a part of this network? perhaps something as simple as a wordpress plugin to promote our products as well as others (and would it be monetizable?)"

 

Thanks for the info, thats quite an impressive ecpm.

 

I'm wondering, how "Awarded virtual items" are calculated in monetize->reports, as its showing 0 for me.
("Videos completed" shows 11)

I've changed ad placement type from Non-incentivised->Incentivised.

 

Thanks for the eCPM

I will give Gameads a try when my game is finished.

 

Thanks for your reply. How about earnings? In UI, it says "you get paid for every completed video view!" but after 11 completed video views, earnings is still 0$. Does it get updated by delay (after some amount of days)?

 

It seems like there is a lot of missing documentation.

My game is now in "Approval Pending" after flipping the switch live in Google Play and Facebook. I was expecting to be able to test things out without the Test/Debug mode ads... Yet the APK had to be live to do a lookup to import settings.

I found no documentation on this process flow. And now I cannot even promote since I don't want to waste chance for impressions. Is there any GoLive documentation available?

Edit:
I even tried the support link in the dashboard and frankly no idea if it worked or not. I submitted info and never got a receipt from zendesk back to my email address.

 

PM sent Heikki.

Thanks!

 

This is odd to me. As a developer that has done realtime reporting off of big data (talking billions inserts), I am uneasy with this wording.

I too am seeing 0 calculations - yet impressions and views filled in. It is impossible to gauge the effectiveness.

Can more detail be shed on this, and can realtime or at least accurate reporting be prioritized (even if it is 1 day lagged)?

 

Also, how is it possible to show values for Ad Requests, Videos Started and Videos Completed when the value for Offer Page Impressions is showing 0?

This is clearly wrong, or its not crediting an impression ...

 

Also, this seems to be occurring frequently now:

https://github.com/Applifier/applifier-mobile-impact/issues/12

 

How much would it give per install? I was using chartboost for example and it was listing installs vs revenue and it seemed to be .5 cents for every install whatever that means. So if you got 1 million installs i guess it would be 5k

 

I've just added UnityAds to a title to see how it goes (usually we implement HeyZap+AdMob+Chartboost+Applovin). So far the fill rate is 37% so I guess that there is a problem. As sometimes networks might have a glitch I'll wait a few days before to roll back to my usual providers, but that fill rate really doesn't look good.