Recent News
Last updated on 11/10/2012
06/04/2012 Ignite Your Inner Alter Ego With Online Gaming San Francisco Chronicle
04/26/2012 Marie and Jay Coulbeck, IMVU Gamer Couple Who Met as Avatars Wed in Real Life Huffington Post
03/16/2012 Games are a Way of Life Mountain View Voice
03/04/2012 Couple Marry After Meeting in Cyberspace The Sun
11/21/2011 Continuous Deployment: Possibility or Pipe Dream? Bost Innovation
10/03/2011 Creating the Lean Startup Inc. Magazine
07/05/2011 5 Hot Social Networking Sites ComputerWorld
06/20/2011 How AdSense Helped Give IMVU a Second Life theCMOsite
06/07/2011 IMVU Moves Company Headquarters to Mountain View, CA to Accommodate Growth Marketwire
05/28/2011 New Startup? Dude, There's a (Genome) Map for That GigaOm
04/13/2011 IMVU Scores With Groupon-Style Buying in Virtual World VentureBeat's GamesBeat
03/11/2011 IMVU Games Taking Advantage of Strong Growth Inside Social Games
03/04/2011 Interview with IMVU CEO Cary Rosenzweig at CeBIT 2011
Interview mit IMVU CEO Cary Rosenzweig im Rahmen der Cebit 2011 Allvatar (Germany)
01/31/2011 IMVU Announces Growth, Promotion Engage Digital
12/03/2010 IMVU is Moving Beyond Virtual Worlds, Finding Rapid Growth Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
11/19/2010 Rosenzweig Named Most-Admired CEO for Emerging Growth in Bay Area San Francisco Business Times
11/12/2010 Social Entertainment World IMVU Expands to Europe VentureBeat’s GamesBeat
09/29/2010 Social Entertainment Network IMVU Launches Mac Client Macworld
09/21/2010 3-D Avatars Get Their Own Farmvilles In IMVU Forbes.com
09/21/2010 IMVU Shifts from Virtual World to Social Games VentureBeat’s GamesBeat
09/07/2010 Marketing Fanciful Items in the Lands of Make Believe New York Times
09/01/2010 Points for Pakistan Raises Awareness and Funds on Social Game and Virtual World Sites SocialTimes
08/24/2010 IMVU Selected as Inc. 500 Company Inc. Magazine
08/24/2010 Leaders of the New School Inc. 500 Magazine Inc. Magazine
06/29/2010 IMVU Selected as 2010 Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup Euroinvestor
05/25/2010 Rocket Fuel Targets Nielsen to Drive Data digiday:Daily
05/13/2010 Snoop Dogg Virtual Goods Line Launched in IMVU Virtual World News
05/03/2010 IMVU is Generating $40 Million Annually Social Times
04/30/2010 IMVU Hiring, Anticipates $60M Run Rate Virtual Worlds News
04/30/2010 IMVU Hires Former Second Life Exec, Outlines Social Gaming Plans Worlds In Motion
04/30/2010 Virtual World IMVU Turning Avatars Into Cash San Francisco Business Times
04/30/2010 IMVU's Virtual Cash Cow: Doubling Revenues, Focused On Gaming TechCrunch
04/29/2010 IMVU Adds Former Second Life Exec Forbes
04/24/2010 IMVU Hits $40 Million Annual Revenue Run Rate TechCrunch
03/15/2010 Who's Hiring Full Time: IMVU MainStreet
03/15/2010 Virtual Cupcakes, Teddies Generate Real Cash ABC News
03/11/2010 IMVU Adds Voice From Vivox Virtual Worlds News
03/06/2010 Artists, Labels Embrace Virtual Worlds The Austin Chronicle
02/17/2010 Rosenzweig Says IMVU's Revenue Doubled in 2009 Bloomberg TV
02/11/2010 3D Avatars Get On Social Dating Site for Valentine's Day Forbes.com
02/07/2010 A Retranca Galega Toma o Mundo Virtual de IMVU (pp. 14-15) Xornal de Galicia
01/29/2010 10 Things to Consider on Virtual Goods and Virtual Economies Peninsula Strategies
01/08/2010 Money for Nothing? Virtual Goods Market Takes Off ComputerWorld
01/02/2010 Frontiers, Virtual and Real The New York Times
12/23/2009 Unlike Reality, Virtual Retail Sales are Hot, Especially for Avatars USA Today
12/15/2009 Virtual Currency Exchange to Launch in 2010 CNET News
12/15/2009 IMVU and myYearbook Set Up Virtual Currency Exchange VentureBeat
12/11/2009 Video: Create Your Ideal Self Online Channel KCRA 3 in Sacramento, CA
12/10/2009 Virtual Worlds: We're Not Dead (In Fact, We're Making Money) eMarketer
11/18/2009 Inside the Virtual Goods Economy at IMVU eMarketer
11/17/2009 3rd Annual Virtual Goods Summit Media Newswire
10/30/2009 IMVU.com Proves Fiscal Stability While Creating a Gold Standard with Virtual Worlds Examiner.com
10/30/2009 VGS 09: Industry Leaders Talk Top Lessons On Virtual Goods Gamasutra
10/23/2009 Is There a Business in the Virtual World? InformationWeek
10/21/2009 IMVU Adds to Board Virtual Worlds News
10/16/2009 Social Gaming Roundup: Ice-T Comes to IMVU Inside Social Games
10/16/2009 U.S. Virtual Goods Spending to Reach $1 Billion This Year CNBC
10/13/2009 IMVU Launches Ice-T, CoCo Virtual Goods Store Virtual Worlds News
10/06/2009 IMVU Doubled Revenue in a Year to $25 Million Worlds In Motion
10/05/2009 IMVU's Road to Riches Already Paved with Virtual Goods Inside Social Games
10/05/2009 IMVU at $25M Run Rate, Charts 40M Registered Users Virtual Worlds News
10/02/2009 3-D Virtual World IMVU Profitable on $25M Run Rate San Francisco Business Times
10/02/2009 IMVU, the 3-D Avatar Chat Room Company, Hits $25M in Revenue VentureBeat
10/02/2009 Virtual Currency Helps IMVU Turn a Profit MediaPost
06/09/2009 Meebo, IMVU Try Enticing Advertisers With New Partnerships paidContent
06/05/2009 2009 TechFellow Awards: The Winners TechCrunch
06/02/2009 IMVU Virtual World Seeing a Booming Economy CBS 5
05/18/2009 Why Facebook Wants a Virtual Currency InformationWeek
05/11/2009 Beyond Clicks and CPM: A Look at 'Engagement'-Based Ad Deals paidContent.org
04/29/2009 Immaterialism The New York Times
02/09/2009 Why Do People Buy Virtual Goods? The Wall Street Journal
02/06/2009 Some Startups Adding Muscle in Tough Economy San Jose Mercury News
01/22/2009 IMVU Investment Highlights Continued Strength in Social Networking Business Week
01/22/2009 IMVU Raises $10 Million for Its Virtual Rooms Business VentureBeat
01/22/2009 IMVU Gets $10 Million in 4th Round Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
01/22/2009 IMVU Picks up $10 Million in Series D Led by Best Buy Capital Virtual Worlds News
01/22/2009 Recession Not Affecting IMVU's Virtual World VatorNews
01/22/2009 IMVU Raises $10 Million for 3D Virtual Community Digital Media Wire
01/22/2009 Teen-Friendly Virtual Chat Service Nabs $10 Million Fourth Round paidContent.org
11/11/2008 IMVU Music Opens: Think iTunes For Avatars GigaOM
11/11/2008 IMVU to start selling music streams and downloads in its virtual chat rooms VentureBeat
11/11/2008 Virtual World Integrates '3D Playlists' Billboard
09/29/2008 The best new games blog you're not reading yet Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen
09/10/2008 Micropayments finally find a home online USA Today
09/09/2008 IMVU Lands Yahoo! Social Networking Expert to Lead Product Management SmartBrief
09/09/2008 IMVU Gets Ex-Yahooer for VP Product Management Virtual Worlds News
08/04/2008 IMVU: 3D Social Networks Marketing Voices
07/14/2008 Is Google's Lively a knock-off of IMVU? guardian.co.uk
07/09/2008 10 things you need to know about Google Lively Kzero
07/08/2008 How Lively? Google's Me-Too Virtual World GigaOM
07/08/2008 IMVU On Lively: Virtual World Space Is Big Enough For Both Platforms To Succeed Worlds in Motion
07/08/2008 Feature: Lively - Google's Contribution to the 3D Social Web? Virtual Worlds News
06/28/2008 IMVU on Creating a World From the Avatar Up Kotaku
06/26/2008 Q&A: IMVU's Cary Rosenzweig On Building From The Avatar Up Worlds in Motion
06/25/2008 Teen Virtual World IMVU Reaches 20 Million Users Digital Media Wire
06/24/2008 3-D chat room company IMVU hits 20 million members VentureBeat
06/24/2008 Fresh Look At IMVU, Mini-MMO With Big Numbers GigaOM
06/24/2008 3D SocNet IMVU Grows As Users Make The Goods VentureWire
06/24/2008 IMVU Reaches 20M Users, Virtual Economy Still Strong Mashable
06/24/2008 Interview: IMVU CEO Cary Rosenzweig on Going Public Virtual Worlds News
06/24/2008 3-D chat room company IMVU hits 20 million members The Industry Standard
06/24/2008 IMVU Reaches 20 Million Registered Users, Largest Virtual Goods Catalog Worlds in Motion
06/20/2008 Panel: Why User-Generated Content Matters For Games Gamasutra