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Showing posts with label Webkinz News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Webkinz News. Show all posts


Webkinz Cares
Monday, June 2, 2008

Webkinz CaresWebkinz and Walgreens have teamed up to create the Webkinz Cares program. They say it's a program to help kids.

Some Webkinz plush toys at Walgreens will now have a extra Webkinz Foundation tag with a special code inside. Enter the code into at the Feature Code Shop and not only will you get a virtual gift but the same gift will be sent to a random Webkinz World users. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Now I don't know if there's any charity involved or if when they say it's a program to help kids, they just mean that they're giving free stuff to random Webkinz World users, but I like what Ganz is doing. Webkinz World keeps adding new features, promotions and events and it isn't getting stagnant at all. My kids are just as interested in logging in now as they were a year ago and it's because Webkinz really does care.

Update: Be on the lookout for Webkinz with Red Tags. Here's a link to the Ganz press release about the Webkinz Foundation.

Posted by Anthony 3:33 AM 0 comments  

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Does Webkinz World Have Advertising?
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Webkinz AdvertisingWebkinz World really has never really had advertising. Sure there's lots of fake banners that say things like, "Go Outside, Buy An Outdoor Room". But these aren't paid advertising, they are more like little banners that remind you of the cool things that you can do in Webkinz World.

Well it looks like that's about to change. Because today when I logged in earn my son some KinzCash, I noticed that there was a new tab called "My Options" that was in the My Pets, Care Award area.

My Options lets you choose whether or not you'd like advertising to be displayed. It was nice of them to include the ability to turn the ads off.

At one point, I remember that there were experimenting with advertising for the Alvin and the Chipmonks movie. I guess that was a successful test and they're going to start doing it more often.

As long as the advertising is age appropriate and doesn't take away from the Webkinz experience, I'm all for it. With such high traffic, showing ads will make Webkinz a lot more profitable. And hopefully that will mean less down time and lag.

Posted by Anthony 8:56 PM 2 comments  

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Webkinz Pet of the Month - March
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

webkinz pig
The Webkinz Pet of the Month for March 2008 is the Lil Kinz Pig. Interesting choice, I would have gone with a rabbit or bunny because of Easter but Ganz must have been thinking less about Easter Eggs and more about Easter Ham.

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Webkinz Focus Group
Monday, March 3, 2008

From the Webkinz Bulletinz Page

We are currently seeking children ages 2 1/2 to 6 for approx. 20 min. session over the March Break: March 10 - 14th. They do not need to be existing Webkinz users. Please fill in the following information if you are interested in coming in with your child (or if you are the guardian of the child), and live in the GTA (greater Toronto area). We are located in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada.

Posted by Anthony 12:29 AM 0 comments  

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Webkinz News
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Webkinz News
Now that the holiday season is over it seems like there isn't as much Webkinz news.

Here's an article that only mentions Webkinz as a competitor to Club Penguin but it has some interesting statistics.

20 million children and teenagers will visit virtual worlds by 2011, up from 8.2 million in 2007.
Disney is investing in the future by doing things like buying Club Penguin.

This is a story about NetSmartz, a new program aimed at protecting kids online.
NetSmartz offers age-appropriate resources, lessons and hands-on activities about Internet safety for grades kindergarten through 12, as well as for teachers and parents
I'm going see if they do something like this at my kid's school.

Funny little story about buying Webkinz Clothes. I can relate to this one.

Yahoo tech has some ideas about how you can monitor your kid's social networking. Too much is just as bad as not enough.

Posted by Anthony 11:52 AM 0 comments  

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Webkinz Pet of the Month - February
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Webkinz Cow
The Webkinz Pet of the Month for February is the Cow.

If you adopt a Webkinz Cow this month, you'll get a bag full of loot that full of surprises. One of those surprises is supposed to be a cloud machine. How cool is that?

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Webkinz News - 10/08/07
Monday, October 8, 2007

The Oregonian does a humorous look at how Webkinz ownership affects the parents and he's praying that his daughter doesn't get one.

AdAge talks about how everyone in the toy industry is going to try and copy the success of the Webkinz virtual world. Everyone from Barbie to Bratz is jumping on the bandwagon.

A basic Webkinz 101 article from the Tribune.

And finally Blognation Canada points quotes a Valleywag post about Club Penguin is already out of favor with kids.

It's October and we're approaching the Holiday Shopping Season. So do you think that Webkinz are going to be this year's hot item or will parents spend their evenings combing eBay for TMX Elmo this year? We'll have to wait and see.

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Webkinz News
Friday, September 7, 2007

Here are some of the stories that Webkinz are showing up in today. You can expect a lot more of these What Are Webkinz? articles to show up as we get closer to the holiday season.

Internet pet: These loveable stuffed animals take Beanie Babies to another level


Ganz Brandz Kinz for Kidz


Social networking sites for children give their imaginations a workout

Trends: Webkinz, The Newest Toy Craze

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Black Stallion now Black Friesian
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

I just saw this on the Webkinz Bulletinz page.

Attention Webkinz horse owners! We have renamed our lovely black horse! We have decided to give this horse a name that better reflects its breed. It will now be known as the Black Friesian (pronounced free-zhun).
You can read the entire message here.

Poor horse probably got caught up in a legal battle over the name Black Stallion. It was a great book by Walter Farley and also a movie too. I guess someone forced the Webkinz horse to change his name to "free-zhun" and that's just cold.

Posted by Anthony 8:14 PM 0 comments  

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Will Webkinz Pull A Club Penguin?
Sunday, August 26, 2007

With the news of Disney acquiring Club Penguin for a gigantic sum of $350 million dollars (and an additional $350 million if growth targets are met by 2009) analysts are now focusing their attention on Webkinz. Will Webkinz be the next Club Penguin or is the online virtual pet industry about to go bust.

The Club Penguin deal definitely reminds me of the dot com deals of the late 90ies. Huge dollars were being tossed around to anyone with a website. A good business model and the ability to make money was optional. It was all about potential. Even though Club Penguin makes money (there's a monthly fee to join, I think it's $5.95 or something and they already have 12 million members) $350 million dollar just sounds like too much money.

Source: Club Penguin got bought -- is Webkinz next?

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