Increase your revenue by using the Microsoft Store Services SDK to display banner ads and video interstitial ads.
Increase your revenue by displaying video ads from Vungle or banner ads from AdDuplex or Smaato in your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps.
Charge a price for your app up front, including the option to set per-market prices.
Offer products and features that customers can buy from within your app, and limit features in a free trial version to entice customers to buy your app.
The Universal Windows Platform and the Windows Store make it easy for you to make money through paid downloads, in-app purchases, and ads. This video introduces these features and quickly shows you how to add ads to your apps.
Windows 10, version 1607 introduces a new API in the Windows.Services.Store namespace for performing in-app purchases and accessing license info for your app.
This SDK provides the libraries and tools that you need to display ads in your UWP apps, run experiments with A/B testing, and collect user feedback about your app. This SDK will evolve over time to include new features.
If your app is configured to display banner ads, you can increase your ad fill rate and revenue by showing Microsoft affiliate ads in your app for products in the Store. When users click the ads and buy products within a given attribution window, you earn revenue on each purchase.
Run A/B tests in your apps to measure the effectiveness of feature changes (or variations) on some customers before you enable the changes for everyone. Use the Microsoft Store Services SDK to instrument your app for A/B testing. Use Dev Center to create and manage A/B tests, and to switch your audience to winning variations without republishing your app.
Whether you are considering building or porting an app for Windows or you already have apps in the Windows Store, you need insight into the Windows device and Windows Store ecosystems to help you to determine what types of apps to build and where to focus your development efforts. We publish a variety of monthly reports that give you the data you need to make these decisions.
The unified Windows Dev Center dashboard provides the monetization data for your apps that you need to optimize your revenue.
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