One of the most popular for presence is webkinz. Even its business rivals admitted this fact. Little plush pets are sold with a special code which activate online version of the toy in the virtual world – Webkinz World. At least 8 other companies try to repeat Webkinz idea by manufacturing resembling products that connect real toys with web world.
This idea was supported practically by all huge gaming markets. Dolls manufacturer Russ Berrie sells Webkinz that are very like to Shining Stars. Mattel Company created a new online world for Barbie. А Littlest Pet Shop of Hasbro Company has a special section called VIP (Virtual Interactive Pet).
Webkinz
developer is a private Canadian company called Ganz
that also sells various accessories to its toys. Webkinz fans can get lips balm, little bottles with body milk and other various whickies such as articles of clothing or bookmarks in addition to $15 soft toy. Like toys do every accessory has its own code with the help of which one can get a prize for online avatar of his pet.
Ganz that keeps their financial highlights in secret has to save its weak balance: to maximize the profits from their idea and remain the interest of children and their parents at the same time. Webkinz website visitors spent near a million of hours in august but the source is free. As the result this way “they haven’t got the money quantity you can think about”, says Sean McGowan, the analytic of Needham Company, who thinks that Webkinz selling reaches the overall mark of $100 mln. He added that no one of Ganz rousing rivals could create the way of turning to advantage from the time that children spend on the internet.
Ganz “has really stumbled” trying to accrue benefits from the site. In the middle of December activists from the association “Commerce Free Childhood” found the advertisement of the cartoon “Alvin and the Chipmunks” on the Webkinz World website. That time Ganz got thousands of letters of inveigh. The Ganz Company representative Susan McVeigh claimed that the company doesn’t ever plan any online advertisement in the game in future. But it is really possible that Webkinz will do that in some years.
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