Habbox is sponsored by...

[W00TZEH]

All it is, is kazopark paying Habbox a amount to get a banner, title changed on main skin and forum. Sponsor is just a word they are using.

To sponsor something is to support an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services. A sponsor is the individual or group that provides the support, similar to a benefactor.



Actually majority of the forum users do still play Habbo. This is backed up by a poll done by HabboxForum a while ago.

All it is, is Samsung paying Chelsea FC an amount of money to get their brand on the kit and around the stadium, sponsor is just a word they are using???

[Axel]

I've not seen the advert at all, love adblock.

[Tintinnabulate]

Who is it that decides that changing the forum name is over stepping any mark? At the end of the day I don't come on HabboxForum and spend my day looking at the top of this webpage to see that "Habbox is sponsored by" whoever.

I see Habbox as a business. to run any business successfully, you need low costs which leads to high revenue. The cost to run this fansite is over £3000 a year, which sierk once discussed in confidence some years back. When sierk took over the running of this site, he put money in to the site as any business person does when they start up a new business. After a while, the business makes money and then operates at a profit, which at one point Habbox certainly did. This is evident as sierk used to pay the main managers for working for this fansite. Although this was only a small amount it was clear that Habbox was making a profit. VIP helped immensely towards this. When Habbo made the decision to get rid of VIP status's on fansites, it must have being expected that fansites would have to make their money elsewhere. I don't see any problem with Habbox going elsewhere, even to a rival site, to get money for the running of this site. Why should it come out of people's pockets at the expense of Habbo's decision which had no effect on them at all? If Habbo wants to shoot themselves in the foot, then let them crack on. They make enough money anyway judging by their statement about quarterly figures.

This new "rival" to habbo is just getting of the ground. Habbo, I am sure has had many websites try, and fail to compete with them. Im sure at this moment they are unconcerned about the prospect of where this site could go as it is only in the small stages. Something like this isn't a huge competition to Habbo, as of yet. Users of this forum will undoubtably be interesting in this new website, I already want to give it a visit from all this speculation. Its therefore profitable for Krazopark to advertise their business on a fansite which has the ideal target audience. Alternatively, if Krazopark become big, it will obviously still have to improve to be better than Habbo. If this site is still advertising Krazopark, members from their may decide to use Habbo.

This could be a step in a different direction for Habbox, like many people have said, Habbo has never done anything for Habbox. If Krazopark does become big, it may remember where it got help from to begin with and repay Habbox in a positive way, perhaps seeing Habbox changing to Krazox and leaving the Habbo community. Who actually knows what will happen? The thing I like is that Habbo has ultimately forced Habbox's hand in to making this decision and it could come round to them losing members from Habbo to another fansite. Habbo should remember what made Habbo UK good for its members, and that was a fansite.

Welcome back Eckuii, not seen you in a long time. Great post. Sums it all up nicely.

oh how ironic

A majority of my posts are actually suggestions and feedback :rolleyes:

[immense]

I agree though it's a misconception the majority of us don't play Habbo. I've seen the majority of people in this thread on Habbo lol :S Just because we don't post in Habbo or Trading, there is a huge Habbo fanbase on here.

[Tintinnabulate]

a while ago isnt when mad was gm lol

No, a while ago is this year. Maybe you should ask for clarification before presuming silly things. There have been 3 ex-GMs since MAD left ...

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All it is, is Samsung paying Chelsea FC an amount of money to get their brand on the kit and around the stadium, sponsor is just a word they are using???

But they dont get Chelsea to change their titles etc. I guess I used the wrong phrase/line or whatever to get my point across. Basically all it seems is they have asked Habbox how much it will cost to get blah blah and got a quote and most likely negotiated it.

[GommeInc]

But they dont get Chelsea to change their titles etc. I guess I used the wrong phrase/line or whatever to get my point across. Basically all it seems is they have asked Habbox how much it will cost to get blah blah and got a quote and most likely negotiated it.

Quite poorly too, seeing as the sponsored by line doesn't really tell you anything about Kazabian. Usually sponsorships that have such lines are websites that replicate or show off the services, yet, as I keep saying, Habbox is a walking talking Habbo advert, so it comes off as pointless having it. It's interesting that a website/business like Kasberkistan has got in contact with Habbox, a website that has limited users AND advertises the enemy, did it in the first place. Mass-advertising on Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and any related media sites would of been wiser. I'm still getting over the shock that Kerzbaco isn't just people from Habbox/Habbo/ClubTropica trying again :/

[Tintinnabulate]

Quite poorly too, seeing as the sponsored by line doesn't really tell you anything about Kazabian. Usually sponsorships that have such lines are websites that replicate or show off the services, yet, as I keep saying, Habbox is a walking talking Habbo advert, so it comes off as pointless having it. It's interesting that a website/business like Kasberkistan has got in contact with Habbox, a website that has limited users AND advertises the enemy, did it in the first place. Mass-advertising on Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and any related media sites would of been wiser. I'm still getting over the shock that Kerzbaco isn't just people from Habbox/Habbo/ClubTropica trying again :/

Depends on how much they have to advertise really.

[GommeInc]

It's a sponsorship, you should be able to negotiate away from having to put a "sponsored by", especially when the title tag in a website (which effectively is the name) is an important part of advertising a business. Besides, if they gave Habbox alot of money, they probably should of done the smart thing like Wootzeh said and gone elsewhere where the userbase is larger and the website/company can outreach to a large audience. Either way, this sponsorship seems a bit dodgy, but it's their money they're wasting. It's worth asking to remove the sponsored by line, it's a bit stupid when it serves little purpose. They'd have more luck asking for the logo having a small mention and non-removable advert in the advert area (one that isn't a GoogleAd or equivilent that can be blocked through AdBockers), even though you can block them through other means

[FlyingJesus]

Quite poorly too, seeing as the sponsored by line doesn't really tell you anything about Kazabian. Usually sponsorships that have such lines are websites that replicate or show off the services, yet, as I keep saying, Habbox is a walking talking Habbo advert, so it comes off as pointless having it. It's interesting that a website/business like Kasberkistan has got in contact with Habbox, a website that has limited users AND advertises the enemy, did it in the first place. Mass-advertising on Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and any related media sites would of been wiser. I'm still getting over the shock that Kerzbaco isn't just people from Habbox/Habbo/ClubTropica trying again :/

So have you now switched your opinion from Habbox having made a bad deal to Kazopark having done so? You seem to be suggesting in more recent posts that they're getting the raw end, which would be giving us the upper hand and therefore not being anything to complain about.

Personally I see it as win-win (as the owners of each obviously do too) - Habbox gets a far higher revenue than we usually would have with just Google ads, and Kazopark get the biggest Habbo fansite userbase seeing their advertisement. I'm not sure if you know how advertising works but going for your specific target audience is generally seen as a good thing rather than pointless, and it's almost certainly a few hundred percent cheaper than trying to advertise on social networking sites, which they can maybe move onto once they have the initial userbase set up but would be of no benefit whatsoever right now.

[GommeInc]

Habbox is a tiny userbase, they could get a wider userbase by focusing their attention to Facebook and/or other large multi-media social websites, maybe even expanding into advertising in GoogleAds or going straight to news websites and/or magazines with the idea, which is technically how effective advertising goes - advertising on a tiny website (in comparison to many out there) is a waste of money, especially when it is technically a rival website seeing as fansites are just adverts. It's quite worrying if they are so happy to waste their money on poor advertising, gives off a strange impression especially when sponsors usually mention what they are sponsoring on their own websites, especially when they seem to be asking for websites to add it to the title of the website, the bit that appears in search engines. Habbox's only poor decision was putting the sponsored by line which just comes off as pointless whereby it says nothing of Kazopo - Habbox obviously links more to and talking about Habbo, so you'd expect to read something about Kazopo, but you don't You could have it as a notice or advert in the area, with may be adjusting the banner, which Habbo do when they get sponsored, and it could well effect any new users coming from Habbo which was the intention not long ago in past discussions about declining numbers, though unlikely :/