saw you.com limited founded glasgow scotland 20 march 2000 2000 03 20 founders mike kinsella & john mcguire headquarters glasgow scotland area served worldwide key people celia francis ceo lauren bigelow coo products social network social game virtual worlds avatar website www.weeworld.com weeworld is a game and messaging content company based in glasgow scotland with offices in london and boston usa . the company is the creator of weeworld.com a social network targeted towards teens and tweens . the company is also well known for its brand of instant messaging and chat based avatars weemees . which the company has released on a variety of digital platforms and services . approximately 182 million weemees have been created worldwide . weeworld is currently funded by accel partners and benchmark capital . 1 contents 1 weemees 1.1 description 2 promotions and partnership 3 history 4 references 5 external links weemees edit main article weemee description edit weemees are 2 d cartoon avatars that weeworld users are issued when first joining the community . users can purchase virtual goods for their avatars such as clothing accessories and food and drink items . as weeworld s target demographic is teenagers many of the virtual goods reflect current pop culture and celebrity fashion trends . 2 promotions and partnership edit weeworld has partnered with corporations such as aol msn and skype . 3 through a partnership with rca it has promoted artists such as alicia keys and avril lavigne through virtual merchandise sales and weemees of the respective artists . 4 weeworld has also promoted artists such as the jonas brothers justin timberlake raven symon 5 the pussycat dolls 6 justin bieber and taylor swift . history edit the avatars were created in 2000 by the co founders of saw you.com mike kinsella and john mcguire 7 in glasgow scotland . in 2003 microsoft began offering the avatars 8 for use to their hotmail customers via the msn chat service . 9 the new service attracted 150 000 users during the first day of the avatars being launched with the weemee website attracting 1.5 million hits daily . in 2004 the uk s largest social network friendsreunited.com also introduced the weemee to their user base . in december 2008 the virtual technology firm da agreed to develop a 3 d version of the avatar . 10 references edit weeworld about us . weeworld . retrieved 2014 03 21 . teens still spend on virtual goods says weeworld . bub.blicio.us . retrieved 2009 07 10 . weeworld forms a partnership with aol . techcrunch . retrieved 2009 07 10 . rca extends relationship with weeworld to promote alicia keys . virtual worlds news . archived from the original on 25 may 2008 . retrieved 2009 07 09 . raven symone joins weeworld . virtual worlds news . archived from the original on 7 july 2009 . retrieved 2009 07 12 . industry buzz & snippets 01 15 09 . marketing vox . retrieved 2009 07 06 . http www.google.com.ar patents wo2001097535a2 cl en . missing or empty title help http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi scotland 3139754 . stm . missing or empty title help http www.telecompaper.com news weeworld extends msn partnership to ten countries 517977 . missing or empty title help https econsultancy.com nma archive 42738 da develops 3d animated avatars external links edit official website wikimedia commons has media related to weeworld . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title weeworld & oldid 738562256 categories companies established in 2000companies of scotlandcompanies based in glasgowentertainment companies of the united kingdomsocial networking servicescommunity websitesvirtual avatarsvirtual reality communitieshidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsuse dmy dates from july 2015use british english from july 2015commons category template with no category setcommons category without a link on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 18 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view