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Outfit7

Industry	Mobile Applications
Founder(s)	Samo Login
Headquarters	Limassol, Cyprus

Outfit7 is a Cyprus based startup best known for its creation of the popular Talking Friends collection of mobile apps which have been downloaded more than 400 million times. The most popular Talking Friend is Talking Tom Cat which has been downloaded more than 40 million times. The company moved its headquarters to Limassol, Cyprus in 2011 after being set up in Slovenia in 2009. Now it operates with a two fully owned subsidiaries in Ljubljana, Slovenia (R&D) and Palo Alto, California (marketing) and sees approximately 15 million downloads a month after launching its first app, Talking Tom on June 27th 2010. To date the company has released twenty Talking Friends apps.^[1]

Contents 1 Company Profile 1.1 Products 2 Other media 3 References 4 References 5 See also 6 External links

Company Profile

The company was founded in October, 2009 by Samo Login. The company generates revenue through a combination of paid app downloads, in-app payments for virtual items and advertising. While the company does not disclose revenues, it has announced that it made $200,000 on Christmas Day, 2010.^[2][3]

Products

In addition to Talking Tom, the company has ten other characters in the Talking Friends line including Talking Gina the (Toy) Giraffe which achieved 1 million downloads over its first four days.^[4] Other characters include: Talking Pierre, a Parrot - over-it, Talking Ben the Retired Chemist Dog, Talking Lila the Fairy, Talking Angela, Pretty City Kitty, Talking Santa, Talking Bacteria John, John & John, Talking Roby the Robot, Talking Rex the Dinosaur, Talking Harry the Hedgehog, Talking Larry the Bird, Talking Baby Hippo, Talking Ginger known as 'trouble', Tom Loves Angela, Tom's Messenger, and Talking News; which includes Tom and Ben in a News Show, see Other Media for episodes including this app. In November 2012 a new line of Talking Friends toys called Talking Friends Superstar were created which would respond to the app such as Talking Tom or Talking Santa.

Other media

Talking Tom appeared on ABC’s television show Modern Family, Season 2, Episode 12, “Our Children, Ourselves.” ^[5]
On June 12, 2012 Talking Tom and his city kitty crush Talking Angela were featured in the music video You Get Me which features Tom and Angela meeting each other for the first time. A second hit called That`s Falling In Love was released in November 2012
On May 10, 2012 a teaser for a new Talking Friends show online was put on Disney.com. The Show ran with 10 episodes. Episodes featuring the Talking News included: Talking Friends Ep4: Newserator and Talking Friends Ep9: Angry Parrots It ran From June 8, 2012- August 31, 2012. It was running time on 34 minutes^[6]

References

1. ^ Kim, R. (February, 2011), "How Outfit7 Built A Toy App Powerhouse", Gigaom.com, Retrieved 2011-4-25.
2. ^ Dredge, S. (March, 2011), "Outfit7 talks to the animals", www.guardian.co.uk, Retrieved 2011-4-25.
3. ^ “Outfit7", Crunchbase.com, Retrieved 2011-4-25.
4. ^ Kim, R. (February, 2011), "How Outfit7 Built A Toy App Powerhouse", Gigaom.com, Retrieved 2011-4-25.
5. ^ "Talking Tom on Modern Family (S02E12 - Our Children, Ourselves)", YouTube.com, Retrieved 2011-04-25.
6. ^ [1], All Things Digita, Retrieved 2012-10-04

References

• Wauters, R (March, 2011). “Outfit7 Hits 60 Million Downloaded Apps, Made $200,000 On Christmas Day Alone”, Techcrunch.com, Retrieved 2011-4-25.
• Kim-Mai C. (January, 2011). “With 60 Million Downloads, Outfit7 Builds an App Empire for Children of the iPad Generation, InsideMobileApps.com, Retrieved 2011-4-25.

See also

• List of most downloaded Android applications

External links

• Outfit7 Official Website

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