Please welcome Voki (pronounced voe-kee) to the Oddcast family of products.

Since our first avatar, Oddcast has always been a leader in bringing avatar products to market.  We have successfully targeted the small business market with SitePal and have been a force on the viral / brand advertising applications.  Now, with our new product, Voki, we are happy to work with communities, social networks and publishers to enable their users to communicate through avatars.


Voki, which is intended solely for the individuals’ non-commercial use allows the millions who have already experienced and enjoyed our various brand specific avatar deployments, to create an avatar that they own and can use again and again.  It is a platform where people can take more ownership over their digital persona and express themselves in ways not limited to the sponsored contexts..

This brings up the question: "How can Voki make our existing products better?"

First, it is important to understand that Voki leverages our existing speaking avatar technology platform, allowing us to gain tremendous development synergies.   We spent a lot of time on our user interface and building out a partner platform.

We redesigned our editor with the knowledge that consumers are likely to appreciate a simplified interface.  We attempted to make the creation process intuitive, easy, and even fun. 

On the backend, we did a tremendous amount of work "under the hood" to allow deep integration into partner communities.  This was no easy task, because our goal was more that just a downloaded GIF to upload onto a user's profile.  We want to allow users to create speaking avatars easily and seamlessly deep within partner applications...fully functional and immediate accretive to the community experience.  You'll start to see these exciting partner integrations in the coming months.

Please keep in mind that this is our first public release of Voki.  We are far from done with its development, but we need the help of passionate users letting us know what works and what doesn’t, to help us improve.  It is important that we are responsive to the reaction of our user community to Voki and continuously strive to add new features. 

We hope you enjoy using the product and look forward to your feedback.