Distribution
While the market for virtual goods in beginning to be substantial, it is also extremely fragmented with hundreds of millions of users split between social networks, casual games, MMOG’s and virtual worlds. In order to reach a meaningful percentage of this market, rights-holders need a platform solution.
Virtual Greats has launched with the best of breed virtual worlds, social networks, and casual gaming companies. Our current distribution, well over 450 million and growing, reaches across various platforms and user demographics. Over the next year will expand our list of distribution partners to include a majority of the market. Our current partner list is below.
With over 50 million active users per month, Lolapps has the largest network of social games and applications on Facebook. Founded in 2008, Lolapps took applications to the next level by building the quiz, gift and game creator platforms that provided user-generated, customizable applications. Lolapps is now also one of the fastest growing social games company with over 300,000 user generated applications and 11 games in their portfolio. Everything Lolapps does is geared towards bringing the best possible social entertainment experience!
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, to share links, to share photos and videos of themselves and their friends, and to learn more about the people they meet.
Zwinky is a virtual world with highly customizable avatars that play in Zwinktopia. Within this world, Zwinkies can purchase dormitories to live in and decorate using items purchased with Zbucks. The virtual world includes many mini-games, and many brands that appeal to tweens and teens. There are various chat rooms in Zwinktopia, including: The End Zone, The Omegaaad, The Dungeon, The Abacus, Graveyard and even shopping boutiques for all kinds of apparel and related items to dress up your Zwinky.
Based in San Diego, Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) has an array of games in development at studios in Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Seattle, WA, and Taiwan including The Agency and Free Realms. These new titles are being designed to push the envelope of online entertainment quality, innovation and delivery.
WeeWorld is the most popular interactive avatar community and a trusted site for dynamic self-expression, creation and communication. Through an expansive palette of features, clothes, accessories, hobbies, etc., WeeWorld users can create their personalized WeeMee avatar, connect with friends, decorate their own visual space, send animated messages, play games and more. More than 23 million WeeMees worldwide are redefining avatar demographics and establishing the WeeMee as the world’s most widely used and recognized avatar. WeeMees can be created on many sites including Windows Live Messenger and AOL’s Instant Messenger, and are portable to all major social networks and blogging sites. WeeWorld has offices in Boston, London and Glasgow, and is funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.
IMVU is a social network and 3D virtual world where millions of people meet, chat and have fun in animated 3D scenes. You can shop and dress up your avatar with your own personalized look, design and decorate your own 3D space, and connect with new people from around the world.
Slide was formed to develop and run a service users would download for their network browsers that would organize photos on their computers and post them to personal blogs. Later, Slide began to make application widgets for online social network platforms. In 2008 Slide introduced “SuperPoke! Pets”, a popular application that allows users to care for and buy things for virtual pets, with much success releasing Gold items which players buy with real money.
PlaySpan™ is the global leader in monetization solutions for over 1,000 online games, virtual worlds, and social networks. PlaySpan’s patent-pending in-game digital goods commerce and micropayment platform enables game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users, and extend the loyalty of existing users.
PlaySpan also provides global payment solutions through its UltimatePay product which enables users to make safe, convenient, and friendly in-app purchases using over 85 global payment methods in 180 countries. UltimatePay includes PlaySpan’s ULTIMATE GAME CARD, which is a pre-paid card available in over 45,000 retail locations across North America and growing rapidly worldwide.
PlaySpan is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Ohio, Virginia, and Mumbai. Investors include Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures. The company won the 2009 OnHollywood Category Award for Best Gaming Company.
For more information about PlaySpan, visit: http://corp.playspan.com
Whyville‘s millions of registered “citizens” come from all over to learn, create, and have fun together. Whyville is their world. Whyville has places to go, things to do, and of course, people to see. Whyville has its own newspaper, its own Senators, its own beach, museum, City Hall and town square, its own suburbia, and even its own economy - citizens earn “clams” by playing educational games. And much, much, much more!
RockYou! is the leading provider of widgets on the web. RockYou! widgets include photo slideshows, glitter textand voicemail accessories that are simple to use and enable people to frequently refresh their online style. Founded in 2006, RockYou! serves over 150 million widgets viewed per day to over 200 countries on social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Wordpress. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, RockYou! is funded by Sequoia Capital, Partech International and Lightspeed Venture Partners. For more information and to access RockYou! widgets please visit http://www.rockyou.com
You can find Virtual Greats’ branded products in the Superpets! application currently available on Facebook and MySpace.
Cartoon Doll Emporium (CDE) is one of the most popular and engaging tween websites in the world, with over 8 million monthly unique visitors. It features more than 2,000 original dress up games with a new game released every day. CDE has one of the most safe and creative social networks online, where users can make their own profile, avatar, and room, and can buy, sell, and trade thousands of virtual items.
Planet Cazmo is the coolest place to hang out and make new friends. It’s a virtual world set inside an alien solar system who have been inspired by music, hip hop and other earth cultural phenomenon. Cazmo is a tween oriented, outer space and music themed virtual world, with a focus on virtual concerts and parties.
Outspark is a leading entertainment services company that publishes and operates engaging online multiplayer games, that are micro-transaction based. Featuring a portfolio of immersive free-to-play games and related content, the company is building an online destination where members come for the games and stay for the community. Backed by Altos Ventures, DCM and Tencent, Outspark is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., with a subsidiary office in Seoul, Korea.
Meez is a thriving online social entertainment community where over eight million registered users create 3D avatars, play games, send mobile greetings, and connect with friends in a compelling web-based virtual world. Meez offers a comprehensive virtual item-based economy, premium subscriptions, and integrated sponsorship options successfully used by top brands such as Nike, Sony, Snapple and Cover Girl.
Viximo provides solutions to publishers (social networks, dating sites, gaming sites, etc) and content creators (brands, media, digital artists) that drive revenue and engagement through the sale of virtual goods sourced through a vast and growing proprietary content library. Virtual Greats licensed content is available through many of Viximo’s distribution partners which collectively exceed 20 million users.
Taatu is a virtual world available in both English and French versions. Members chat with friends, listen to music, watch videos, play games, meet real-life stars, organize parties and have fun in a graphically rich environment, accessible instantly from any standard web browser. Taatus create their identity by customizing their avatar and their 3D personal space. They generate content and share it with others from their own space. They enjoy an open and direct connection to the Web. 2.0 ecosystem so as to never miss the last buzz. TAATU World is a safe and managed environment.
mEgo is a rapidly growing multi-network community comprised of personalized avatars that are alive with an individual’s online content like their YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Twitter tweets, Facebook friends/photos/status, MySpace profile data and more. Everyday, mEgo’s are seen millions of times on mEgo.com and over 650 different social networks, and very soon, on the iPhone. mEgos are automatically updated everywhere they are posted when any change occurs.
Gonline is a fast-growing MMO based social entertainment website aiming to become the #1 interactive community in China. Centered around leisure, fashion and anime, it is a one-stop destination for Chinese teens and young adults eager to express themselves in today’s internet space.
Gonline bridges traditional media and online communities with elements of social gaming, creating a new online engagement where users enjoy, contribute and eventually become part of the entertainment they encounter for themselves as well as others on the site.
TheBroth is a social games company located in San Francisco, California. You can find their games on Facebook and other social networks.
Many cooks can make the broth - or spoil the broth. Want to play collaboratively? You can! Feel more competitive and don’t mind sabotaging your friends’ efforts - all in good fun, of course - With our games, you can!
Feel like taking care of a virtual farm? Try Barn Buddy, one of the top 10 games on Facebook! Need a real jigsaw puzzle simulation that allows you to turn your own photos into high quality jigsaw puzzles? Try PuzzleBee!
Jump right in and sample what’s on offer. It’s tasty and addictive!
Mentez is the leading social application publisher in Latin America. We specialize in helping developers promote and monetize games and other social applications on social networks, most notably Orkut in Brazil. Mentez publishes 4 out of the 5 most popular games on Orkut. The company’s portfolio of games reaches 22 million active users every week.
PageFad (OnlineAthletes.com) is a leading developer of free-to-play sports gaming applications on Facebook. The Company’s games are played online by over 7 million users. PageFad has taken online sports and strategy gaming to new heights by building applications that enable Facebook friends to build and manage sports teams made up of their actual friends to compete against other teams of friends.