Promoting Watchface and Store Categories

Hello,

I was wondering if there was some kind of procedure to have your watchface be considered to feature in the app store, and what would that be? Not necessarily at the very top of the app store page, but at least in the front page within the analogue or digital categories etc. I've got a hero image for at least one of my clocks and in the process of adding to the others.

Also, I was wondering about the store categories. I see some watchfaces are displayed under the category Data Rich Watch Faces, which I know some of my clocks could fit under that category but I don't see them in the drop-down list when I make a submission. So how could I get mine in there as well?

Thanks in advance.

jim_m_58 over 4 years ago

Showing as one of the 1st 8 for a category is based on things like downloads,rating, specific device, etc as far as I can tell, and just because you're not in the top 8, you could still be in that category (click on "more" for a category) There will be many pages of apps there.

Which gets back to that there are hundreds of watch faces and what's shown on the front page are just the top 8 based on the things I mentioned.

As far as which category you're in, I've never fully understood how what you pick for a category/subcategory for your app maps to the categories on the first screen.

3543362 over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks for your quick reply and information. I guess there's nothing much more I can do in this case because you usually find the closer to the top means more downloads, higher ratings etc which then means a greater chance at the front page ... basically a vicious circle

pstoppani over 2 years ago

Here you got on the categories (you want Utility for Data Rich WF): forums.garmin.com/.../new-categories-in-connect-iq-store

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to pstoppani

It's a bit more complex. In the store, I have the same app showing in the first 8 in two different categories.

pstoppani over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

I was referring to the question on how to be shown in the Data Rich category... It certainly was not obvious to me that picking "Utility" would select "Data Rich"!