Actual Earnings for February

This is money that was actually received during February, not just theoretical future earnings.

eBay Earnings:

Profit: -£2.00

This was actually a loss this month, because I didn't sell any items for profit, only some personal items which aren't included. Due to poor performance in January, however, I didn't start re-listing items until almost the end of the month, so many of the expenses listed are for items that are still running.

I did reach Top Rated Seller during February, which, unlike Power Seller, is displayed in the listings.

Flash Earnings:

MindJolt: $558.47

Web Directory Advertising:

This is after deducting PayPal fees.

DirectoryGold.com: $103.88

Total Earnings for February:

-£2.00 and $662.35

MindJolt Earnings for February

The total earned from MindJolt for February was $18.14.

This now includes a small earning from Picture Find, which had to migrate to MindJolt's ad API at the end of the month. Unless the performance of this API significantly improves, this will result in lower overall earnings.

MochiAds Earnings for February

The total earned as a developer from MochiAds for February was $28.26, again down from the previous month. Impressions were substantially decreased from the previous month. Once again, Pyramid Solitaire was the highest earner, followed by Picture Find. From this point on, however, the total earned by Picture Find from MochiAds will be substantially lower, as it has now had to convert over to MindJolt's new ad API, which is where most of its' revenue was coming from.

Earnings as a publisher were $0.44, down substantially, although impressions here had also decreased.

MindJolt Payment Received

I've received a payment from MindJolt for $558.47. This is for earnings from December, and the first payment received from their new ad program.

Unfortunately, I would by my estimates have received at least a couple of hundred dollars more using MochiAds, due to the poorer eCPM and deliberate skips from the MindJolt ads.

MindJolt Earnings for January

The total earned from MindJolt in January was $42.87, substantially down from last month as expected.

Performance has been less than spectacular. The eCPM for MindJolt's adverts is substantially lower than that for MochiAd's on MindJolt. Combined with the huge percentage of deliberately skipped ads - about 41% in December and 25% in January - and total performance was substantially below what would have been expected if MochiAds had been shown.

MindJolt Earnings for December

The total earned from MindJolt during December was $558.44.

This was the first month I've had direct earnings from MindJolt, and the first month that Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss was live there, which meant it earned a lot more than it will most likely do from now on. Earnings are currently less than $2/day, down from the initial $100+ from the first three days. Admittedly, this is a higher daily income than any game is making elsewhere.

Continuing Stats for LBPST on MindJolt

So, for the first day that Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss hasn't been on the front page of MindJolt, impressions have as expected dropped sharply. Total impressions were 27,980 and earnings were $33.68. Still a decent income, but it's probably only going to continue dropping from here.

Front Page Stats for MindJolt

So, the stats for the three days that Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss was on the front page of MindJolt are now in. There were 564,518 gameplays, 312,027 ad impressions and revenue of $426.96. This is more than Picture Find has earned in total during its time on MindJolt.

Now, to see how well it performs in the long run.

First Days MindJolt Stats for Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss

The first days stats for Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss are now in.

There were 237,722 gameplays, but only 119,982 ad impressions which does suggest that initial viewers aren't seeing an ad for the game.

The total earned was $167.60 for this day, and the eCPM was $1.40, which is pretty good.

Now to see how well it did for the other two days it was front paged in the New Games section.

Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss Live on MindJolt

I nearly forgot, but Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss was published on MindJolt today.

This is the second game I've had published on MindJolt, but this one uses MJ's new advertising platform. I'll be interested to see how well it performs; the eCPM for Picture Find on MJ using MochiAds has been $1.35 recently, about my highest.

I've heard that the first time a game is played using the new ad system, no ad is shown. This could potentially make a huge difference to the initial earnings for a game.

So far, Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss looks like it could well be doing better than Picture Find did; it already has 22 likes in one day as opposed to Picture Find which has only 10 in the over a year it's been live.