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How much money can an ad-funded game make on iPhone? How about $4.00 per user per month!
Mobclix, the mobile ads optimisation company, has released a startling infographic.
It sets out the amount of money a developer can expect to make per user per month from its games on iPhone and on Android. It has analysed 50 top-performing apps that each have 500,000 downloads and/or 75,000 DAUs. It then worked out the average revenue per active user per month.
The results are amazing. iPhone games generate $4.00 per active user; Android users roughly half that at $1.90. Utilities and entertaintment apps fare even better (see the graphic below).
The small print is, as always, absolutely critical. The apps are all free and spent at least two weeks in their top 10 charts. The only revenue that Mobclix is counting is advertising revenue.
Most importantly, Mobclix defines an “active" user as someone who visits the app three times a week, for at least five minutes a time. For all we know, this could represent only 1% of the total number of downloads. A game developer with an ad-funded game with a million downloads is highly unlikely to be making $4 million per month.
These figures are a sighting shot, an upper bound. They tell you how much money you can making from your most-committed users if you are building an ad-funded game that engages players heavily, three times a week for at least five minutes a time.
If that isn’t an incentive to design an engaging game with strong retention mechanics, I don’t know what is.
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