is an app for the 主播大秀鈥檚 youngest audience of 0-6 year olds. Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and Windows 8 app stores since August 2013, the app has been downloaded nearly 2 million聽times in聽under 6 months.
is filled with lots of CBeebies favourites, fun features and great games designed to aid child development, allowing children to learn whilst they play, in a safe and secure environment.
To keep little ones entertained, the CBeebies Playtime app has seen two new exciting additions since its launch last year; and I am very pleased to announce that things are about to get prehistoric, with the third new arrival Andy鈥檚 Dinosaur Adventure game!
Children can travel back in time and join Andy on a dinosaur adventure; take care of their very own dinosaur, find out what food it likes to eat and help Andy feed it, teach it to ROAR, personalise it by changing its colour or even take it鈥檚 photograph to keep and share with their family and friends.
Andy's Dinosaur Adventures
The fun doesn鈥檛 stop there! We asked our audiences 鈥榃hat would be the best thing you could do with a Dinosaur?鈥� and we had some brilliant answers ranging from 鈥榞o to my Nana鈥檚 with it鈥�, 鈥榮how a dinosaur a clock so they know the time鈥� and 鈥榞o to the supermarket with it鈥�, but one of the best answers helped inform part of our Andy鈥檚 Dinosaur Adventure game - 鈥楻ide it!鈥�. With the CBeebies Playtime app, little ones and even big kids too, can ride on their very own Dinosaur. By moving their device聽around they can also collect photographs of other dinosaurs they see along the way for Andy to take back to his friend Hatty at the National History Museum.
Andy鈥檚 Dinosaur Adventure game also allows children to use Andy鈥檚 iconic 鈥楪izmo鈥� to learn interesting things and fun facts you didn鈥檛 know about dinosaurs; how big they were, how much they weighed and lots more!
We hope little ones will enjoy this game as much as we enjoyed making it for them.
鈥楽hiver me timbers鈥� 鈥� there鈥檚 more! Make a Picture has been treated to a 鈥楶iratey - Swashbuckle鈥� make-over in this latest update, which means children can have fun creating swashbuckling artwork with pirate stickers and frame it all with a buccaneer theme!
Shiver me timbers!
鈥� 鈥楴ina and the Neurons Earth Explorers鈥� a strategy game that lets children explore our Planet and the Solar System, was added just before Christmas in Dec 2013 and has also proven very popular receiving over 3.4 million plays since launch.
鈥� A constant favourite with our young audience is the Something Special, Paint Pop game with 4.6 million plays in the last 3 months alone.
鈥� Tea time still seems to be the most popular time of day with usage peaking between 6pm 鈥� 7pm
鈥� Sunday is the most popular day of the week for little ones to indulge in CBeebies Playtime
Insights
CBeebies Playtime has been played over 22 million times at an average of nine minutes each time over the last three months. That鈥檚 over 198 million minutes of CBeebies Playtime enjoyed by little ones across the UK, giving us lots of valuable feedback and insights into what our audience like and how they use the app.
The festive period brought lots of Christmas cheer and an increase of nearly 300,000 downloads for CBeebies Playtime with 46,000 downloads on Christmas day alone!
We聽know that tablets are becoming more and more popular amongst families with small children. Between launch and Christmas day on average 56% of children used the App on a tablet compared to 44% on mobile.聽 However聽it seems that聽Santa must have been extremely generous as that jumped up to 62% tablet - 38% mobile after Christmas day.
What鈥檚 next
Many of you Grown-Ups have told us what you and your little ones love about the app, what their favourite game is and what you鈥檇 like more of. We are always interested in your suggestions and ideas and we have some more exiting updates coming for you soon in 2014, including new words for Alphablocks!
Lizzie Leadbeater is Senior Producer, CBeebies Interactive