Thursday, July 5, 2012

[android-developers] Re: HELP! Google removed my app with millions of users!

There are thousands of apps that use a bottom banner for ads. It seems a natural place for them. 

It would be nice to have some guidance on this.

-John Coryat, USNaviguide LLC
 

On Thursday, July 5, 2012 5:12:55 PM UTC-5, isopropanol wrote:
ICS doesn't have a hard menu button anymore, so the menu button occupies a bar at the bottom of the screen on apps that expect it and don't have their own soft-button.  The issue could be that people accidentally click the ad trying to hit the menu button (complete speculation), so placing the ad at the top would resolve that.

That falls into the "I'll put it wherever they want as long as they tell me where they want it" category you mentioned already.

Before you mentioned the app name I was thinking it might have fallen into the "intellectual property" category if someone sent a DMCA-type notice, but that shouldn't be the issue here.

On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 10:08:33 AM UTC-4, CVP wrote:
I'm really looking for help from anyone, but I really need to get in contact with someone from google...

Without warning, a few days ago my long standing successful app was removed from the play store. The app has been around for over 2 years now and has around 1.5 million active users, and nearly 5 million downloads. It's been in the top 5 of its category for well over a year. It has over 65,000 ratings with an average of 4.6/5.

The email I received said that the app was removed because Google says Violation of one or more of the following provisions of the Content Policy: spamintellectual property, and impersonation or deceptive behavior and more specifically because "core features of your application causes users to accidentally click on advertisements"

First of all, the ads are hardly accidentally clicked... The highest average click rate I've ever gotten was 0.8%. Even still I've read over the Content Policy as well as the Distribution Agreement and neither call out specific ad placement rules, guidelines, or suggestions. The ad placements are also similar to hundreds of other most popular apps...

I'm more than happy to upload a "compliant" version of the application putting the advertisements in whatever position is deemed acceptable by Google. I'm not unethical or a con-artist, I'm a recent college grad from a smaller town after all... Re-releasing the application under another package name would be unfair to the 1.5 million active users out there as they wouldn't get the update notification or keep their settings. 

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