New monetization option for Android apps. Do we make it right?

Hi Folks

We are going to release a new monetization option for Android Apps. During development of this option we thought that the following benefits are going to be exptremely important for developers:

1. You can use the new monetization feature as additional source of income
2. If you don't like to show advertising in your apps, you can get rid of it
3. Since there is no need to show ads in your app, this monetization option can be used in paid apps

The basic idea is to use devices with the respective mobile apps for web crawling, which is sort of data mining. The data is going to be mined for marketing agencies and insurance companies so the revenue is quite competitive to the revenue you can get using ads. Estimated monthly revenue according to our alpha test results is about 1000 USD, if the app has 1000 DAU.

We would like to know how many developers are interested in this monetization feature generally. Does it work for everyone or is this rather a niche product?

 

Hi,

It sounds interesting.

Please, give a bit more light on data collection. Which type of data it would collect? Even if it would be stated in EULA, such data collection could possibly cause legal issues according to GDPR.

 

Cheers,

It is GDPR friedly. Crawler does not collect any personal data it is just fetching data from websites and search engines. If we talk about Market Research one of possible use cases could be for example checking what keywords and phrases are being used by direct competitors depending on GEO. Or analysis of content on their website to get info on titles, keywords, descriptions and links they use.

 

It sounds interesting.

 

Thank you. Yes, it is. I'm looking for pro and cons. Also I would like to know prevailing opinion about the idea and if developers have any barriers that could impact their willingness to use this option.