Interesting things of the times: ma-bimbo.com (8)
This weekend, I stumbled into a review of ma-bimbo from Le Soleil, which apparently is one of the hottest websites in Québec right now.
The website is actually from a french company, with a french and an english version, but due to its popularity, I thought it would be interesting to mention it here.
So Miss Bimbo caters to *girls* teenagers, and is an online game where you “grow” a virtual character, with the objective of being the most popular and richest. The characters can get on diets, go to tanning salons, get breast implants, find a wealthy and handsome man to marry, do some esthetic surgery, become a social starlet, etc. In the article, the website’s founder compares it to a modern day version of the Barbie doll, and says it’s really an innocent virtual game.
Whether it’s “ethical” or not is a judgement I’ll leave to you; what’s interesting is that they’ve tapped into a niche that works very well in Québec (and in Europe as well). In just the past month, the website had a total of 893.000 visits from Québec (in a province with 7 million population !!!), with 130.000 visits from Outremont and 112.000 from Ste-Foy. And this is mostly word-of-mouth, as I haven’t noticed any advertisements in any media about the website.
I’ve spoken in the past with other entrepreneurs if a website catering to a local audience was viable, and most of their replies was that it had to be “generalist” — looks like this isn’t true anymore, if you’ve got enough imagination.
I spoke with Marc Allard from the Soleil almost half an hour to the the digits he receive from that company and I tell him to get the real Google Analytics Stats. It is so stupid to say : 130.000 visits from Outremont and 112.000 from Ste-Foy.
Anyone who know Web Statistics can’t say that specially here where all the Bell geo-stats are from the Toronto routers and Videotron are from Ste-Thérèse. A real Joke! Another Capazoo 2.0 !
If Outremont got 130.000 visits Casablanca should provide 2 millions visits !
hey there,
I don’t know where they got the stats — but I don’t think they are extraordinary. It only takes a group of users who uses the website intensively.
Also, I am not an expert with analytics but I know Google Analytics drops often visitors
It’s hard to come by decent info on the web now thanks for this.
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