Are your DPS apps successful?

How are you finding your download/viewer numbers for your apps - are they lower/higher or about what you would expect? Are your clients happy that the apps you create for them are worth the investment in your expertise?
What are your opinions on the effectiveness of DPS apps in generating revenues, brand awareness etc? Do you/your clients have aggressive marketing strategies to promote the apps?
I've been using DPS for 3 years and our apps have varying degrees of commercial success. I still consider digital magazine publishing to be in its infancy and strategies for making publishing apps successful at all levels (rather than just multi-million dollar Conde Nast products) are difficult to come by.
What are your thoughts? Do you have a viable business partnering with DPS or is your digital publishing a venture that you hope to make a success sometime soon?
Thanks

Hi JDnm,
i think your questions are difficult to answer.
My personal opinion is, that you can´t ignore the digital strategy for products like magazines.
The main reason for success is the app itself, the content and the target audience.
And maybe you have to see it like that:
(Nearly) Every magazine is loosing customers. The digital magazine is one opportunity to keep them as your customers because you give them more values.
So if you for example combine print and non-print you get a commercial success in total.
In total it is a question of the right concept i think.
Greetings!
Lars

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