new media business focussed on sport, gaming and education for children at home and at school and
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Footee at www.footee.com combines fun, football, games, safe social networking, education and physical wellbeing for 7-14-year-olds
The Business – Intellectual Property Owned
Footee can be re-skinned automatically and become the junior section to any football club site
By partnering football clubs with a quality product Footee will reach an audience of millions
This audience can then be monetised through:
• Advertising/sponsorship
• Premium service
• Educational merchandise
Footee also acts as a template product that is being rolled out to other sports
To help fund the ongoing development of our own intellectual property (IP) the company undertakes contract development work
The Business – Contract Work
We work for clients who may also have an interest in working with us on our own
Recent projects include :
Developing the educational resources for the RFU to fit alongside the 2011 Rugby World Cup: the most successful programme of its kind ever launched by the RFU.
One of only two content developers selected to create content for the London 2012 Education Programme: Get Set, the most successful Olympic and Paralympic Education Programme in the history of The Games.
Appeals to:
Footee: The Audience
• Children
• Parents
• Teachers
Children want to play it because it is fun and they are playing for their football teamParents want their children to play it because it is fun, safe and educational
Teachers want to use it because it is a high quality interactive education tool that motivates children
Leading to a very large userbase
Footee at www.footee.com
Register and personalise your Footee experience by creating your avatar and modifying your HQ
How it works
Footee at www.footee.com
Explore the Footee island and play single and multiplayer games to win ‘balls’ (the Footee currency) and Super Skills (player skills e.g. Gerrard’s Passing, you can use to train your Footee team)
Footee at www.footee.com
Use your balls and Super Skills to train up your Footee team, then play matches in leagues and cups against friends and other users in search of glory!
Footee at www.footee.com
You’re also playing for your club! The balls you earn contribute to your club’s total – can your club win the league?!
Messages from players and the manager at the club you support, as well as ones from your parents and teacher encourage you to play more and improve your educational scores
Footee at www.footee.com
The more you play, the more balls and Super Skills you earn, the better you Footee team becomes, the more likely you are to win the league!
Footee at www.footee.comParent/Teacher section provides free lesson plans and activity sheets and allows parents and teachers to see how their child has progressed in educational terms
No direct ones! There are no other sites that combine sport and education for children
Social gaming sites: Club Penguin, Moshi Monsters, Bin Weevils, Runescape, Neopets
Education sites: BBC through CBBC
Competitors
Football sites: magazine online presence: Match of the Day and Match, but mainly access football info through club sites and BBC
Football games: pro evolution soccer, FIFA 10, championship manager
There are sites/games that focus on individual elements of Footee
Partners
Parental approval
Marketing through schools
Model can be rolled out across sports e.g. Yoville to Farmville, Fishville, Petville
Own the niche
Competitive Advantages
Unique users/month: Footee: 30,000Sportee Cricket: 5000Rugbee: 1000
Users Stats
Page impress./month: Footee: 0.5 millionSportee Cricket: 25,000Rugbee: 5000
Latest version of www.footee.com went live in December 2011
www.sporteecricket.com went live in March 2011
Registered users: Footee: 200,000ICC Sportee Cricket: 5000Rugbee: 500
Registered schools: 500
Primary marketing tool for both sites has been ‘word of mouth’
www.rugbeeground.com went live in Oct 2011
Latest Stats
100 schools have registered in 2012 our of their own initiative
September 2012 on Footee: Visits: 23,441Page views: 153,466Average duration: 8mins 32s
Clubs: Chelsea Footee: 3612 visits (‘oldest’ Footee club – increase of 20% on August and 35% on
July)New clubs: 1000+ visits in first month across
first 15 Football League club versions developed (roll out across all clubs due to be finished in early 2013)
With NO marketing
Latest version of Footee went live in September 2012, starting the roll out of 80+ individual club versions of Footee