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Has any tried Sellaring for monetizing apps?

I think it depends a lot on the habit of users. For me if I ring for a person and say 30sec never answer I would hang up and presume the other party would call me back. I usually don't hold the phone for so long just to get connected to the other party. Only exception would be emergency call but if it is emergency then the last thing I want is to hear an audio ad while I am desperately waiting to get through isn't it ?

Maybe others would like to share their phone dialing habit.
 
Hi Sohguanh,
yeah habit of users is critical, also in app usage. I often tend to go for paid app versions rather than free, especially in games. I don't like to have ads disturbing me.

You say you wait 30- seconds when you dial. I think it's much less, I think the average time is like 10-20 secs (I never timed it before but that's my sense). In any case, a lot of radio ads are about 8-10 seconds long, so I think that should be enough for a jingle.
Think about it. It's a few second of time which is not used anyway. You think it would change people's phone habits?
 
SpiralFire said:
In any case, a lot of radio ads are about 8-10 seconds long, so I think that should be enough for a jingle.

Think about it. It's a few second of time which is not used anyway. You think it would change people's phone habits?
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Hmmm... if a radio ad can express what it want to sell within 8-10 seconds then it is feasible. The only concern is will the people phone habits change when such sound ad get popular.

A traditional way is to conduct survey. Do a poll either face-to-face, anonymous etc to check people phone habits. I believe they have done that else they won't venture into a sellaring concept isn't it ?
 
It had damn well better be OPT-IN.
I also prefer paid apps. I don't want to be pestered for crap I simply don't want which is about 95% of the stuff sold.
We use the MUTE button on the remote constantly. I've got music I like on a USB stick which works in the CD player, so I don't listen to radio.
Someone will do a hack to prevent it. They usually do. If someone wants to listen to it, fine. I don't.

As to surveys, I worked in marketing and cannot participate.
 
guess they must have done a survey and probably more research. How would you do this kind of survey? Do you check people's behavior when they listen to the ring while they wait on the phone? Ask them how many seconds before they hang up?

They say in their site that users have to consent to hearing ads. So I guess that is a type of opt-in.
There are a lot of very annoying ad formats. But then again, free apps tend to get a lot more downloads. So that's the balance.
I hope this company is something different...
 
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