Facebook App Center?

mer10 · July 2012

I just looked at it and was amazed at how few mobile apps were in it. For example, there are only 6 mobile card game apps listed in there. Has anyone used it or tried to get their app in it?

peterthomas · July 2012

Where does this even exist? I heard about it for the first time :P

mer10 · July 2012

Here's a link to what it is.
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/05/09/introducing-the-app-center/
and guidelines for it.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appcenter/guidelines/

Not sure if it is a default app for facebook users but it shows up as a multicolor cube on my home page. Sounds like no one has really used it here. My app has SSO so I saw this and thought it would be a good place to get extra exposure, but wasn't sure how difficult it was to be added.

scottwb · July 2012

We submitted and got rejected - apparently our iOS app doesn't engage with Facebook enough! Yet you can publish stories/achievements to your wall and cook your Facebook friends.

PinkRunner · August 2012

It doesn't seem really clear what the criteria is for being listed in the App Center. There is one app with only 89 users that is listed, so it doesn't seem insurmountable to get on the listed/featured page. I'd hope that once more users get my app and start using it that perhaps that will change. Not sure how many eyes are on the App Center.

I was going to try FB ads for the app, but there's no way to target that I can see if they are using a specific device and I don't want to be paying a ton for impressions that people can't act on.

Anyone with experience or results from advertising their app on FB?

mer10 · August 2012

Yes, I have. I wasn't impressed. I did garner a good amount of fans for what I paid, but I was and still am skeptical about how legitimate most of them were. It definitely wasn't one fan/one sale for me. Not even close.

As for the targeting thing I was able to choose only iPhone/iPad users when I was setting up a new campaign. Not that it made much of a difference

I'd recommend doing a mobile ad campaign now if you're at all interested in it. I've heard those were much more effective, but the average CTR might have dropped a bit since then.

PinkRunner · August 2012

mer10: Thanks for your insight. Are you referring to doing something like google ads targeted at mobile?

KarlJay · August 2012

Interesting. I look at some apps, click on a 'GREAT' app called '9GAG' because it was described as "9GAG is the easiest way to have fun!" and has almost 5 stars !!! and has 3.8 MILLION users (the users jump to 4.2 million when you click on it.

Then the BEST part... _IF_ I click on their website link, THEY GET MY PERSONAL INFORMATION !!??

BTW, it's another funny photo share program, like we needed another one.

Hey FB, read this: _IF_ I wanted to give my personal information in order to visit a website, I'd do it myself. Get a CLUE, you don't OWN me. People only use your site because it's free and many others use it. Most of us are waiting for another site to come along that WON'T share (sell) our personal information. When/If that happens, your stock will drop even further and you'll be a sidenote like MySpace. I never gave you permission to access my personal email account, I didn't want your timeline 'upgrade' Stop shoving sh!t down our throats.

mer10 · August 2012

PinkRunner said:
mer10: Thanks for your insight. Are you referring to doing something like google ads targeted at mobile?

Yeah they have ad options now that let you show up in the facebook mobile feed.

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