We know, deep inside, you you yearn to be a country-rock superstar.    One of the reasons may because of Rascal Flatts, one of the most successful bands today, attracting tons of fans from all over the world. Maybe you heard their great cover of “Life is a Highway” in the Pixar movie, “Cars” or maybe you’re just curious.

The latest Rascal Flatts album, “Unstoppable” comes out April 7. In partnership with Universal Music, we’ve created a Rascal Flatts album listening party inside Vivaty. You can listen to the first single from the album in the scene today, and we’ll soon have the entire album for you to check out. While you’re there, check out the Rascal Flatts videos, leave comments, join their fan club, sign up for text alerts, and meet tons of other fans.

Join Now: http://www.vivaty.com/official/rascalflatts

This is the second listening party Vivaty has done with Universal Music, after our earlier one with Queen’s new album. The Vivaty community loves music. Create your own fan site today!

Hi everyone!

We’re a little late with our blog post, this time around, but we definitely have some cool things for you to check out.

Let’s go to the movies

Now introducing Cinema Vivaty. We’ve launched three movie theaters that are playing a variety of cool things. Coming Soon Cinema shows the latest movie trailers. Cinema Twilight shows all things Twilight!  Cinema Vivaty shows full-length movies. Each theater has multiple movies, so stick around, have a seat in the theater, and check them out. Each movie is sync’d up so you’re all watching the same thing at the same time. Go figure! There are more cool features coming out in these theaters in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

Also, you can request movies and clips here. More comedies? More romance? More action? Tell us what you want to see!

Let’s get together!

We heard many of you ask us for helping in finding other people to hang out with, or to point you in the direction of all the action. To help you with this, we’ve introduced Vivalerts, which are little alerts you’ll see in your scene every few minutes letting you know where people are hanging out, with a quick invitation to go join them if you’re interested! Even if you’re not in Vivaty, when the party is really hopping, we’ll occasionally send you an alert via the Vivaty Message Center at the bottom of your window in the desktop tray. That way, you’ll never miss out when things are hot! We’ll try to do that only once in a while, but if even that’s too much, you can turn these settings off in the Vivaty Message Center.

Now presenting, Miss Congeniality!

We wanted to showcase some of our best friends in the Vivaty community. Those who are the most generous, the most popular, the most active, and our overall VIPs (a combination of cool factors). We’ve quietly launched this Vivaty leaderboard, which you can see from your Launchpad. It’s just the beginning, as we’ll soon start to reward our best community members with a little celebrity awareness!

Tell us what you think!

We’re constantly interested in hearing what new features, ideas or any feedback you have. You’ve probably seen our good friend Samantha in our community. She’s always interested in your thoughts. Additionally, you can share your requests and ideas in our new forums.  We listen very carefully to your feedback, and now it’s even easier for you to share it with other members.

Keep an eye out on an upcoming blog post. Would love your feedback on some upcoming avatar changes and clothing!

Thanks!

Mark Hull
VP Products

It’s not unusual to jump into Vivaty and find a few Vivaty employees chatting with folks, or playing the new Eskape Cove shell game, or checking out the latest scenes. But sometimes even we need to get back to work!

We introduced something pretty cool this week so that even when you’re not logged into Vivaty in your web browser, you can still get the latest updates when your friends log in or drop by your scene, so you can then jump in and join them.

Vivaty Message Center

It’s a small little thing that sits at the bottom of your Windows task bar. It’ll fade in a little balloon that tells you when your friends have logged in, sent you a gift, commented on your scene, or when some other cool bit of activity takes place in Vivaty. You can easily customize it, too, to just get the messages you want to receive.

You don’t have to do anything special to get this. We’ll install it automatically when you download the latest version of the Vivaty Player on your next visit (You can always uninstall or disable it if you don’t want it, too).

Eskape Cove Shell Game

Also, the next time you’re online, check out the Shell Game at Eskape Cove. No, it’s not some guy with a wooden box betting you $20 you don’t know which shell the ball is under. Instead it’s a fun game where you race the clock to pick up enough shells in order to bring out your inner hula. Best scores gets an exclusive gift from Vivaty that you can’t get anywhere else! It’s a lot of fun, and is the first in a series of fun games that are on their way, so stay tuned for more!

We’ve seen some great scenes recently. Loved seeing Stephane C.’s scene and Summerdays2106’s scene. We love Papillon Denuit’s scene, too. Finally, I think people can thank xion696 for the results in last week’s elections.

See you soon!

Mark Hull
VP Product Management