As we previously reported, the Virtual Goods Summit kicks off this week. One of the organizers, Susan Wu, offered up some interesting statistics about the current state of affairs:
- Neopets users have created over 206 million virtual pets
- Tencent has over 250 million active users in China and generated $100+ million in Q1 2007, 65% of their revenue comes from virtual goods and services
- Nexon generated $230 million in 2005, 85% of which came from virtual item sales
- Habbo Hotel has over 75 million registered avatars in 29 countries, 90% of their $60 million+ yearly revenue comes from virtual goods
- Gaia Online does over 50,000 person to person auctions a day - making them the 3rd largest auction site on the Internet. Their average user consumes 1200 page views a month.
Both Rand Leeb-du Toit of Yoick and Marc Wallace of 3pointD will be covering the Virtual Goods Summit, and we'll be sure to pass on any shining beacons of wisdom from them here on Metaversed.