ibibo web(p) Ltd founded in January 2007, is a fast growing India focussed Internet and mobile product company. The company is jointly owned by South Africa’s Naspers and China’s leading Internet company, Tencent. We focus on Social gaming and e-commerce platforms.
Our flagship brand, ibibo.com has emerged as a fast growing, social games based social networking platform. It enables users to get connected and network through various forms of social gaming and contesting genres.
In 2009, “Business Week named, ibibo as world’s top 50 technology start ups”. In 2008, PC world awarded us with the best designed Social Network in India.
Ibibo.com is one of the few India focussed players leading the social gaming revolution. We create various formats of social games. We started with producing talent games that enabled users to express themselves, connect with the community and gain recognition. From thereon we evolved to produce a wide genre of local social gaming content such as “The Great Indian Parking Wars” ; “ibibo Farms” ; “Teen Patti” ; “Chess” ; “Pool” and many more.
We feel that traditional games wherein you play against the computer, mobile or console are boring and passé. Our core focus is to enable friends to play together. We develop three key genres of social games:
1. Role Playing games: Typical example of the role playing formats is ibibo.com’s Great Indian Parking Wars and ibibo Farm. In these formats users own a farm or a street or a house or any such virtual asset and they are encouraged to role play and do tasks along with their friends. Tasks further drive points for the users and hence a leader board that drives competition and cooption amongst friends. The key aspect here is that the social application acts as a catalyst for users to come back and pull friends to the social network everyday. These games act as conversation starters and makes relationships in the social context more valuable.
2. Live multi player games : The multi player game formats on ibibo enables users to presence detect their friend’s real time and play live amongst each other while sitting anywhere in the world. ibibo.com’s Teen Patti (Local Cards game) or ibibo Pool are some examples of such popular formats. Users play and simultaneously chat live in this environment. These games can be played synchronously between 2 to 6 friends live on the system at the same time.
3. Talent games and contests: ibibo.com has been a pioneer in creating virtual talent hunts like modelling, singing, dancing, rock music and acting. For example: ibibo iFresh face is a platform for the young women of India to showcase their pictures and profiles and gain popularity and following. Through these talent games, we have seen thousands of users being noticed by the entertainment industry.
Click here see all the social games on ibibo.com.
Ibibo web (p) Ltd also owns e-commerce businesses in India. An auctions website www.tradus.in ; A travel platform : www.goibibo.com and jobs classifieds : www.bixee.com
