Brief myLot Update

I haven't been active much on myLot recently, so here's a brief earnings update for September, October and November:

September:
My earnings: $0.10
Referral earnings: $1.31
Total: $1.41

October:
My earnings: $0.02
Referral earnings: $1.18
Total: $1.20

November:
My earnings: $0.00
Referral earnings: $0.53
Total: $0.53

MochiAds Payment Received

I've just received my first payment from MochiAds of $200.51. It took approximately 15 months since signing up to reach the $100 payment threshold - or about two days since Picture Find went live on MindJolt. It shows that with a more popular game, you could easily make the payment threshold every month. Now, to try and make some more popular games.

Kongregate November Earnings

Total earnings from Kongregate for November were $0.59, down from last month. No new games had been added, and the revenue from Spooky Pairs and Spooky Slots was lower than expected. Oddly, UFO Assault, which is by no mean a particularly good game, keeps outperforming the other games.

MochiAds November Earnings

MochiAds earnings for November are now in. Total earned was $0.28 as a publisher, up from the previous month, and $165.68, which is something like five times the total for all the previous months combined.

The biggest earner was Picture Find, which made over $140, almost all of that earned from the MindJolt game. Pyramid Solitaire also did well, its earnings for the month putting it in second place for total revenue of all the games.

Massive Links Payment Received

I've received a payment of $57.50 from the Massive Links affiliate program. It's taken slightly more than a year to reach the minimum payment threshold of $50 there. I'm going to consider this program Recommended, although it works best with the right sort of site to promote it on, namely a web directory.

MochiAds Payment Threshold Passed

I've passed the MochiAds $100 payment threshold this week. This is entirely down to one game, Picture Find, being approved on MindJolt, racking up over 200,000 ad impressions in under three days.

If you don't know what MindJolt is, it's a Flash gaming portal. It's popular in Alexa traffic, but not as big as portals such as Kongregate. Where it is big is on the social networks. The MindJolt app on Facebook is currently the 15th largest app there, with over 14.5 million players. They also have a MySpace app. This is a huge number of players who will view your game, and it will usually remain on the front of MindJolt for several days. It will be interesting to see how it does there after it's no longer in the new games section.

Kongregate October Earnings

Total earnings from Kongregate for October were $1.50. This was mainly from the release of two new games, Spooky Pairs and Spooky Slots.

I did notice that it took much longer than it used to for both games to come out of judgment. I don't know if this is because the quantity of games submitted has increased, or because the new games pages have been redesigned.

Mochi October Earnings

MochiAds earnings for October were $6.85, slightly down from last month. Two new games, Spooky Pairs and Spooky Slots were released at the end of the month for the Halloween season. These provided a boost at the end of the month. Space Slots is still performing well; Spooky Slots is a different version of this game.

Earnings as a publisher were
$0.17, down from last month as were total impressions.

Spooky Pairs Released

My latest Flash game, Spooky Pairs, has now been released on Kongregate.

In this game, I decided to try to improve the overall graphics quality of my game design. Whilst the quality is better, I did make a number of mistakes in the creation of the graphics which unfortunately increased the size of the game.

Kongregate Earnings for September

Total earnings for Kongregate for September were $0.44. Earnings were slightly down from the previous month. Again, no new games had been added.