BACK on September 21, I commented on this:
Another item is something a user on WI found one day while doing daily KinzCare. An extra screen was visible. Recently, WW upgraded to a full-screen format. Instead of having the games and rooms be full screen, little "advertisements" for other games on WW appeared at the side of the screen. Some of the advertisements were PSAs, telling the kids playing to brush their teeth, eat fruit, go outside and play, etc.Well, an advertisement appeared this morning, without a checkbox appearing beforehand.
On the page this person saw, there was a box you could check to get actual advertisements for real products in the spaces where the Webkinz World ads were. If you accepted advertisements, you would get an extra gift at the beginning of the month.
It was immediately noticeable, for The Bee Movie, which apparently has Jerry Seinfeld as a voice. Hm.
However, later in the day I checked out AdultKinz to see what folks were saying about the ad and someone had some surprising news: if you changed screens enough times eventually one of two white ads for The Bee Movie came up. One netted you a free pot of honey, the other a bee costume (shirt, pants, shoes and bee antenna headgear).
If Ganz wanted to test out if people would accept ads, I think they have their answer. People were crazy to have the bee costume. One adult clicked so many times she accumulated 57 costumes. Whoa.
I've been happy with one costume set and two pots of honey.
The movie doesn't open until November 2; it will be interesting to see if the ads—especially the freebie ones—stay up until that time.
