Tuesday, 9 October 2007

Move aside Second Life, the kids are here

While advertiser interest in the adult-focused Second Life may have all but evaporated, marketers targeting a generation younger would be remiss to dismiss virtual worlds as a fad. In fact, the interest in such communities is so high that they are increasingly seen as a vital marketing component for any kid-focused brand. More about Webkinz, Be-Bratz and other virtual spaces for kids here.

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I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.