Virtual Pets Blog

December 2007 is now over - and income was down for a lot of publishers this month, but we’ve managed to stay in our monthly average for income - since we’ve learned how to use multiple advertising networks (diversity) instead of just relying on one network for our monthly income - so since our main income generate was down for the month, our other ad companies managed to pick up one another’s pace and actually increase our income for the month, however; we made $7 less than we did in November - so basically we did pretty good for December - and since one of the ad networks that we started to use in December wasn’t actually on one our site the whole month, we could of probably made a bit more, and surpass our income for November, but we didn’t, but we’d say December was a pretty good month for us - since a lot of advertisers weren’t pushing their niche sites across the web, but it’s a new year now - and we hope our income will go through the roof this year, but we’ll see.

So, how did you guys do in December?

As we’ve just entered the year 2008 - we’ve yet to see any virtual pet site owners post goals - or announce their goals for the year, but seeing how we’re one of the strongest forces in our community, we’ve decided to create some goals for certain pet site owners, and hope that they can reach them at the end of the year. It’s quite a challenge, but these goals can be met if the owners - and staff members of the pet sites can work harder, launch advertising campaigns, and bust out a lot of new features for their users.

1: Rescreatu should peak at 200+ users online by 2009 and have over 250,000 registered users. Rescreatu should also have over 5,000 items, more lands to explore and more features. Also, more pets. So, we’ll give Rescreatu til January 1, 2009 to reach these goals.

2: Marapets should have the following goals in mind for the new year:
peak at over 5,000 online, have over 5 million users, and be one of the largest pet sites in the new year (it is already, but is rarely talked about).

3: Subeta should have the following goals in mind for 2008:
peak at over 3,000 - 5,000 users online, have over 350,000 users and surpass Marapets in terms of activity.

So, the new year as just begin and we’ve only posted goals for 3 of the pet sites that we think should work on a few goals this year. Are we biased? We don’t think so, these pet sites are just the ones that we favor the most - and love to talk about.

So, do you think Subeta can surpass Marapets in the next year - or will the talk of their recode continue to be their hype? Their recode has recently gone live, on a test server, and is currently in alpha or beta testing for their users, so we should see it go live on the main site soon.

As 2007 is coming to an end, it’s time for us to review the year. So far, so good for the major pet sites - as Neopets, Marapets and Subeta going to grow, however; before December comes to a close - we’ll have to discuss Powerpets - and its latest version, which is the new powerpets.

Marapets & Subeta both have had its fair share of publicity in 2007 - with the advertisements being the main talk of Mara, and the longcat + staff firings for Subeta - 2008 is looking pretty good for both of these games (will Mara finally get better art in 08?). But look at the bright side, without the bad & good publicity for both Marapets & Subeta, users probably wouldn’t join - because publicity helps people decide whether or not to join the site - because if its boring, they won’t join.

So, was 2007 a good or bad year for Marapets & Subeta? Why was it good? Why was it bad? You tell us.

As of December 26, 2007, Marapetshas 2,669,198 players.. Marapets currently peaks at around 2,500 - 3,000 users.
As of December 26, 2007, Subeta currently has 188,576 registered users and currently peaks at around 800 - 1,000 users.

Is Subeta showing Mara that a pet site can grow without a huge advertising campaign - which Marapets has done multiple times this year? Marapets has spent at least $5,000 on advertising campaigns this year - and will probably launch more in the new year. Why does Subeta continue to grow without much advertising from its staff members? Are the users promoting or? Let us know.

Let’s not forget about the small pet sites. Rescreatu has been growing pretty fast ever since it launched last year - and celebrate its first milestone this year, 20,000 users. Its now growing at a steady 100 - 200 new users a day and is peaking at 100 - 200 users online. As growth has been steady for Rescreatu, a lot of users have been going around saying that they don’t have a lot of features, however; the main attraction of Rescreatu is their find a egg - and create a pet feature - which continues to bring the users back.

Misticpets finally opened to the public, and as 3,600 members as of today - and currently peaks at 20 - 50 users online. Not bad for being opened for a month or two, eh?

Ichumon recently opened up a week or two ago as well - and currently has 300+ members and peaks at 20 - 30 users online. They’re going pretty good if I do say so myself.

Another bad year for Zetapets though, they continue to peak at 100 - 150 users online - without any major updates, however; Tigress continues to say that v3 will be out by next year. Do you believe it? Zetapets currently has 528,812 registered users.

On a side note, we still believe 2007 was a bad year for pet sites and we hope 2008 is a lot better.