Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Improving LibreOffice download numbers on download sites

Hi Charles,

Yes LibO is listed and the question is about improving its brand
awareness on those sites.

I guess download.com could be contacted, but i don't really see the need
to do so. Their listing is sorted by the number of users that download a
particular software the previous week, with OpenOffice running at
13,301, MS Office 2013 at 4,067, Kingsoft at 3,636 and LibO at 1,863, as
can be see at on their office suite page for windows <
http://download.cnet.com/windows/office-suites/?tag=bc > and for mac <
http://download.cnet.com/mac/office-suites/?tag=rb_content;main >.

When it comes to filehippo.com, it is listed alphabetically, which
results in OpenOffice, AbiWord, and Kingsoft appearing before LibO in
the windows section < http://filehippo.com/software/office/applications
> and i have recently requested they at LibO to their mac section <
http://filehippo.com/mac/office/ > and maybe others could do so as well.

If anything, i think having a contact email at the various software
websites, so they could be contacted when new releases are published
would be a great idea.

Jay Philips

On 05/25/2014 01:21 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> Hello Jay,
>
> AFAICT LibreOffice is already listed there.  The question being then: what can we do to grow our 
> brand awareness?
>
> That is what we try to do in various waysn we do have contacts with other sites though,  not with 
> them. What do you suggest?  Should we talk to download.com ? I think their listing reflects the 
> brand awareness of their users more than their own.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles. 
>
> On 25 mai 2014 08:26:10 CEST, Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jean-Francois,
> >
> > Yes i do agree with you that libO should never link to such website
> > that
> > would repackage libO, which download.com and filehippo.com
> > (softpedia.com as well) do not do. On these sites, OpenOffice and
> > Kingsoft Office are ranked higher than LibO.
> >
> > Jay Philips
> >
> > On 05/25/2014 09:45 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
> > > Jay,
> > >
> > > Le 25/05/2014 04:52, Jay Philips a écrit :
> > > > I think the marketing team should come up with a strategy improve
> > > > libreoffice's popularity on download sites like download.com and
> > > > filehippo.com, as many users discover new software from sites like
> > this.
> > > > I've seen some software makers direct downloads of their software to
> > > > such sites to increase its popularity.
> > > The problem I see with such thirdparty websites (at least here in
> > > France) is that they often repackage the software they offer for
> > > download. The repackaging unfortunately adds some unwanted "goodies",
> > > such as IE toolbars or Firefox addons. If the user starts the install
> > in
> > > automatic mode (almost all do), these things are silently installed
> > and
> > > suddenly the user PC becomes cluttered with what I consider
> > virus-like
> > > items.
> > >
> > > As a hotline employee, I very often get questions about the PCs being
> > > suddenly veeeeery slow or some unwanted websites opening when
> > starting IE.
> > > So, unless these sites change their way of "promoting" software, I
> > > wouldn't go this route at all.
> > >
> > > YMMV
> >
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