or simply that people were mostly installing the app after seeing ads for it.
reddig33@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So are they insinuating that Google App Store “popularity” ranking is actually paid product placement?
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Dave@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Isn’t the idea that if you advertise you will get more people looking at/downloading your app and therefore rank higher?
It doesn’t make it not paid product placement, but I don’t think it implies that people are buying spots on the ranking.
It does imply the rank is almost useless because most high rankers are just spending a lot on ads.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Isn’t the idea that if you advertise you will get more people looking at/downloading your app and therefore rank higher?
That is what advertising companies would like you to believe but the effect is nowhere near this drastic, otherwise they would be showing double-blind studies about the effectiveness of advertising to all their customers all the time.
Dave@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Maybe this article is intended for advertisers to convince them of the value.
reddig33@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought “google shopping ads” were those “click here to purchase from…” ads that show up when you search for something like a t-shirt, or a vacuum. Not ads for the app.
Dave@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Ah I guess it’s that it shows what they want then they have to install the app to buy it?
wccrawford@discuss.online 11 months ago
I’ve bought stuff from Temu and without installing the app. I’m sure it recommends installing the app if you tap the ad on a phone, but not on desktop.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It probably is
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you REALLY think that Threads is one of the top 4 downloaded apps on Android? “EasyHomescreen” is number 5.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Here is my guess for top 5 downloaded Android apps:
I would be surprised if Facebook and X were up there but not that surprised.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Facebook isn’t there because it now comes pre-installed on nearly every phone in existence, and is often baked so hard into the core OS that it’s impossible to remove without flashing a custom ROM. If you’re lucky you might be able to disable Meta slop without bricking core functions of the phone. Removal is usually impossible.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Oh dang. It hasn’t been pre-installed on any of my phones, but I try to get close to the stock Android experience. Except now with Pixel stuff I’m not always sure what’s stock and what’s pixel specific.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
My guess would be that none of the big, well known brands are in the top ten and that those are instead useful utilities that almost everybody uses but rarely talks about.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I’m trying to think of what useful utilities I’ve had that I had to download from the app store, which didn’t come pre-installed. I don’t think Material Files, JuiceSSH, Notally, Shazam, etc could be more popular than something mainstream like Instagram.
I wonder if there is a list somewhere