Is it worth uploading your app to the Amazon App Store?

The Amazon App Store is often overlooked. I talk to a lot of developer and app publishers and usually the topic of Amazon never comes up. But, there’s an entire market and user base there.

This week’s Minute of Overpass asks the question . . . Is it work releasing your app to the Amazon store?

In this video, I also mention two of our new apps that have been released to the app store. They are . . .
Chemistry Flash Quiz: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overpass.chemistryflashquiz
Oscars: Academy Award Trivia: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overpass.academyawardsflashquiz

Both apps are coming soon to iTunes very soon.

For more information, visit http://www.overpass.co.uk.

About Overpass:
Overpass is a mobile app development company based in the UK that actually makes money from its own apps as well as creating money-making apps for clients. We have our ideas and build them. We can build your ideas too. If you haven’t started creating your mobile app yet, and need a UK App Developer, give us a call.

Our team consists of developers and designers with years of experience in various business sectors. We build apps in native iOS, Android, and Corona SDK. We are based in Wantage, Oxfordshire.

Find out more about Overpass at www.Overpass.co.uk. Check out our educational games such as Mandarin Bubble Bath, Agent X, and Deep Sea Typing. Check out our spy apps like Ear Spy, Alarm Spy, and Eye Spy.

If you are looking to get an app developed and want to discuss it, give us a call on 0845 834 1008 (+44 Country Code). Or email us at info@overpass.co.uk.

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About Eric:
Eric Wroolie is the owner of Overpass. He has built software and web-based solutions for very many large and small companies including Macmillan Publishing, RibbonFish, BNP Paribas, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, BBC Worldwide, CircData and Omega Logic. Before that, he was a Chinese Mandarin and Vietnamese Linguist for the US Army and then a school teacher. Now, he makes apps.

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Transcription:
Hi, this is a minute of Overpass. My name is Eric and I make apps. This week, I ask, is it even worth putting your app on the Amazon store?
Few weeks ago, I made a video about us reaching the 3 million download mark on our apps. So, I’ve showed you a graph of how many apps we get by market. I’ve showed how many we have from Google Play, iTunes, Amazon or Samsung and I also referenced a lot from the smaller markets.
And I was speaking to somebody and he said “I had no idea there were so many different markets out there.” and it’s strange that most people don’t really consider the non-mainstream ones. We think about Google Play. We think about iTunes. Amazon is a big player but even then most people don’t seem to publish to that. This week I kinda want to talk about whether or not it’s even worth doing. Amazon is kinda strange because it’s so easy to take a build from Google Play and move it to Amazon. That’s if you don’t include things like, links to back to the app to do your ratings. You have to kinda configure that kind of stuff so it goes back to the same place. Or if you are using Google Play’s leaderboards, those are not gonna work on Amazon. If you have anything within your app, just try bring in more engagement thru the Google Play’s ecosystem. If you don’t have anything like that, it doesn’t make any sense not to push it to Amazon.
Now, having said that, Amazon can be a bit high maintenance. We’ve had this over and over again where we get an email from Amazon saying “We noticed that your version of Eye Spy on Google Play is 1.22 and on Amazon it’s only 1.21 and under the Terms and Conditions it’s going to be the same version. It’s like a girlfriend who’s saying that why don’t you notice me anymore. And you say “Oh, yes I forgot about Amazon” so you have to publish to there but it really only takes a few minutes. One thing you need to think about if you have designers or things like that is, the file sizes for Amazon are a bit different. Like for the screenshots sizes, the text, but many times it’s really just taking it, what you put in to Google Play and making it applicable to the Amazon market. So your app descriptions will be the same, the keywords – there’s a keywords field in Amazon so it’s much more like iTunes than it is in Google Play so you can take those keywords in put those in there. And like I said a few weeks ago, we don’t get very much from Amazon. However, if you’re releasing a free app, you kinda want everybody to see it.
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