Monetize your AIR applications with Melrose
Melrose – the monetization service previously known as Shibuya – is now live on Adobe Labs.
If you were at MAX last year you probably remember the demo I did in the keynote on day 2. With literally just a couple lines of code you can add a complete license manager and payment solution to your AIR application. You can even create time and feature based trials.
Melrose works exactly like all the other application stores out there. We don’t charge any monthly or yearly fees but we do take a percentage of your earnings (obviously there is no charge for free apps). In return we’ll provide a safe and secure way to monetize your AIR applications. That means you don’t have to worry about things like credit card processing and hosting your license manager logic. Your private dashboard will tell you how your application is doing. You can view charts on number of downloads of your apps, number of trials, number of purchases, revenue, number of activations, and trial to purchase histogram (i.e. conversions from trials to purchases).
Developers and publishers in 47 countries can use Melrose to distribute and monetize AIR applications.
Melrose is still in private beta but you can already sign up today. You can find all the necessary info on the Melrose Labs page.
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Hum… the sign up button over there seems not to be working. I came to Adobe.com with title, “Error processing your request :(
Very interesting. Does this overlap with the model where developers distribute mobile AIR-based apps to the Android marketplace? Or is this an entirely different thing, perhaps specific to AIR apps targeted for the desktop?
Serge, is their recording available of the live session that happened yesterday at http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/applab ?