I think there is not just one advice, which can bring you 50k downloads. It depends on many factors and one of them is android app promotion, luck or money. I have read hundreds of articles “how to promote app without spending any money”. I have made everything, what people advised to do to make your app hit. I’ve searched Google Play to know, that my game isn’t just a copy of anything else and it really isn’t, it is very unique.
I have made game, that is extremely easy to understand, it doesn’t require any language knowledge, one game doesn’t take you more than one minute and it is very small and playable on every mobile phone. I have made a promo video for it. So that’s all.
After publishing my game I shared it on social networks, I bought few facebook pages to share my game, I asked for android reviews to more than 700 pages and youtubers - just small ones replied and review my game, but it hadn’t got a big impact on downloads. I also shared it daily on some facebook groups.
I have made everything what people advice in these articles and stories. I think the problem is, that I have been ranked just after beginning on Google play, but just in my country. You must receive a lot of downloads to even be in Google ranks. Next thing is, that I do not receive any installs from organic searches on Google Play. So it stucked on 1,5k downloads and I am not satisfied because I dont know what to do next. That’s my story.
Which also makes me wrinkles is, that I asked some popular developers of Android games and they say me, they didn’t do android promotion, they just released it and they have 500 000 installs. So I am asking myself, what’s the key to success.