AG Interactive Scares up Hundreds of Online Ghoulish Greetings, Anticipating Tons of Trick-or-Treat Traffic

Political Bat Who Flashes Victims with Scary Potential Presidential Candidates Already Seeing 600,000 Hits a Day 


CLEVELAND, Oct. 26  /PRNewswire/ -- AG Interactive, Inc., the new media subsidiary of American Greetings Corporation, has launched its largest group of Halloween eCards, Create & Print printables, screen savers, and wallpapers for the haunted holiday, anticipating a very busy Halloween season.  With hundreds of unique offerings, including hilarious singing chins, scary movies, and macabre makeovers, there are many new eTreats to be found on AG Interactive's network of websites.

Already leading the pack is "The Flasher", a bat who hangs around flashing people with possible Republican and Democratic choices for the next presidential election, causing his victims to faint, scream and run away.  The card (found at http://www.bluemountain.com/display.pd?path=76676&prodnum=3106930) is already being viewed by 600,000 people a day.

"Halloween is a great holiday to send an eCard," said Sally Babcock, senior vice president, AG Interactive. "It's fun, it's easy, and with all of the new content to choose from, we're sure that we've got something to inspire all of the goblins out there.  Whether people are looking for funny, scary or politically incorrect, we've got it.  And with the amazing popularity of "The Flasher" this year, it's obvious that humor rules the day!"

AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, Egreetings.com and BloombyAG.com all offer a broad set of witty, spooky, and topical Halloween greetings, built with advanced features such as 3-D, film, animation, claymation, and even actual people.  In addition to the very popular "Flasher", some Halloween highlights from this year's collection include:

The Candy Corn Chorus - Hilarious singing chins - that's right, like the one on your face - singing "Gimme Candy Corn".  Upside down. http://www.americangreetings.com/display.pd?bfrom=1&prodnum=3105171&path=31639

Lights Out! - A mini-movie that takes viewers through a very scary house in the middle of a raging storm. http://www.americangreetings.com/display.pd?bfrom=1&prodnum=3105172&Searchstr= lights%20out&st=t&path=31871

Airport Security - Unfortunate results for Dracula, Frankenstein and The Invisible Man when they have to go through airport security. http://www.bluemountain.com/display.pd?prodnum=3106929&Searchstr=airport&st=t& path=35616

A Halloween Hoedown - All of the barn animals are in their costumes, singing and dancing their hearts out. http://www.bluemountain.com/display.pd?prodnum=3106928&Searchstr=hoedown&st=t& path=35616

Halloween in the O.C. - A Halloween rap song from the kids of Orange County.

http://www.bloombyag.com/display.pd?bfrom=1&prodnum=3106704&path=68250

The Stalker - The eStalker will spook the recipient, thanks to personalized input from the sender.

http://www.egreetings.com/display.pd?prodnum=3105220&path=8153

The Create & Print section of the sites also include many different fun projects that kids will love.  They can create printables of personalized candy bar wrappers, skeleton garland for decoration, candy bags, buttons, stickers and of course, paper greeting cards.

There is also a full-line of paper Halloween cards that American Greetings Corporation has created for the holiday, focusing on everything from Shakespeare to Goth, appealing to a broad set of Halloween lovers, particularly the 18-24 year old set, the newest group to embrace the haunted holiday.

About AG Interactive

AG Interactive is a global leader in licensing and creating original self and social expression products for online, instant messaging and mobile platforms. To create its premier content, the company leverages one of the world's largest creative studios and digital library of award-winning expressive content as well as an extensive international distribution capability.

AG Interactive attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month in 18 countries to its network of websites including AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, and Egreetings.com as well as through Instant Messaging or online partnerships with AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!. The company has one of the largest online subscription services with over 3.3 million paying subscribers.

AG Interactive is a subsidiary of American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM), one of the world's leading manufacturers of social expression products generating annual net sales of approximately $1.8 billion.  For more information, please visit http://www.aginteractive.com/. 

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