Growing Our Android Catalog By The Thousands

The success of our store lies in users finding the apps they want, regardless of where it’s available.  With that in mind we launched an effort to grow our catalog to give a more complete picture of the Android app ecosystem. Over the last few months, we began adding the top 50,000 free apps available in Android Market, and making that information available to visitors of GetJar.

We’ve added icons, screenshots and text, but most importantly to you, we did not add the application directly into GetJar. We realize how important your intellectual property is to you, which is why these apps link to the entry directly on Android Market. When a user clicks the download button on Getjar.com/Your_app, they get redirected to your app on Android Market.

In addition to growing our catalog for our customers we are providing free marketing to these apps in a variety of ways. One, as we continue to fine tune our store we’re seeing our Android Traffic double month-to-month, which means more users looking for great apps like yours. Two, these ingested apps are built into our recommendation system meaning that we will be showing your apps to our users, even though you’ve may never have heard of us.

As a developer you also have the opportunity to upload your application directly to GetJar, making it available to a wider audience and on devices that may not have access to Android Market. We’ve seen that, consistently, by uploading directly to GetJar you remove a click a user would have to make, thus increasing  conversion rates up to 50%. You can add your app to our store by setting up an account at developer.getjar.com. Once you have an account, you can migrate control of your app’s content from us to you. If you have any troubles, simply let us know.

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