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MTV Networks’ Nickelodeon Launches Nicktropolis: Unprecedented …

Blogged by neoput on Monday January 29th, 2007 at 1:55 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
MSN MoneyCentral - Over the past two years, MTVN has acquired expansive community and gaming assets like NeoPets, AddictingGames.com, Shockwave.com, Harmonix Music Systems, GameTrailers, Xfire; RateMyProfessors.com and Y2M for college students; and added user ...

Q+A With Albie Hecht By The Associated Press

Blogged by neoput on Monday January 29th, 2007 at 6:45 am in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Digital Video Editing - If you can cross that over to the explosion in time spent by kids on [online gaming] sites like Club Penguin, Runescape or even [Viacom's] NeoPets, I think you can have a very, very successful and new experience for families. So you don't miss being ...

Digital literacy ‘urgently needed’

Blogged by neoput on Monday January 29th, 2007 at 6:02 am in Neopets | 0 Comments »
BBC News - Banning commercials aimed at selling junk food to children from early-evening television may seem like progress but when McDonalds can team up with Neopets to push Happy Meals to more than 30 million young net users then restrictions on TV ...

Quincy Smith

Blogged by neoput on Thursday January 25th, 2007 at 10:46 am in Neopets | 0 Comments »
CBS News - Prior to joining CBS in November 2006, Smith was an executive at Allen & Company, where he was involved with projects including multiple transactions for Google, Advertising.com's sale to AOL, the del.icio.us sale to Yahoo, Neopets' sale to Viacom ...

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Blogged by neoput on Wednesday January 24th, 2007 at 6:54 pm in Neopets | 1 Comment »
Gamasutra - This continues the company's move into game-related markets that has seen the acquisition of virtual pet website NeoPets and game content site GameTrailers, as well as the announcement of a MTV Games co-branding label for console titles. According to ...

Advertisers Finding Kids Online

Blogged by neoput on Tuesday January 23rd, 2007 at 9:18 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
MarketingVOX - Two recent major moves by Nickelodeon - the purchase of virtual pet site Neopets by parent company Viacom followed by the launch of on-demand channel TurboNick - have swelled interest in the kids online space and are expected to spark advertiser ...

MTV Networks Brings Korean MMOGs To North America

Blogged by neoput on Tuesday January 23rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Gamasutra - In addition, as part of the new partnership, Nexon and MTV Networks will also work to enhance MTV Network's popular online casual game property Neopets by introducing premium virtual items for purchase for customization and personalization, in ...

Keeping kids safe in chatrooms

Blogged by neoput on Monday January 22nd, 2007 at 11:57 pm in Neopets | 2 Comments »
Star Online - These pets would live in a specially-created virtual universe of their own – a concept similarly adopted by Neopets.com, a popular online virtual pet simulation game for kids. Personal pets To use the Moji IM , users first have to fill in personal ...

MTV US acquires college destination site Ratemyprofessors.com

Blogged by neoput on Monday January 22nd, 2007 at 1:27 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Indian Television - Following MTVN's recent purchases of Y2M, Atom Entertainment, GameTrailers, Harmonix, IFilm, Neopets and Xfire, this acquisition ...

Online creatures, great and small

Blogged by neoput on Saturday January 20th, 2007 at 3:38 pm in Neopets | 0 Comments »
Boston Online - ... and change outfits. Webkinz.com , along with similar sites such as Club Penguin, combines the shared-space, real-time interaction of "massive multiplayer online games" usually aimed at teens and adults with the pets-on-the- Web kid appeal of Neopets ...