Happy Birthday, Pogo.com

Electronic Arts announced that Pogo.com is officially ten years old. Pogo.com launched in 1999 as a start up and has grown from a small offering of games with dozens of players to a global destination offering hundreds of games to millions of users in the North America, France, Germany and the United Kingdom making it one of the most trafficked sites on the web, and #1 in stickiness (average minutes/visitor) amongst the top 10 online properties - according to tracking data from comScore.com. In the past four years Pogo.com players have logged more than 6 billion hours and 8 billion game sessions on the site.

Pogo.com is known for its online community of players who forge life-long friendships through the site and spend way too many hours all kinds of casual games. Pogo has local sites and communities in UK and Germany. The Pogo.com premium service, Club Pogo, offers players a variety of VIP features including exclusive games, no ad interruptions, private chat and avatars. Club Pogo had over 1.75 million paying subscribers at the end of August 2009.