By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
If you ever wondered which pages on Facebook in Japan have the most fans, head over to Facebook JapanInside, an unofficial site that tracks exactly that kind of statistics (among other things). The site is in Japanese, but just follow this link for an up-to-date ranking of Facebook pages in Japan...
Business social network LinkedIn is a juggernaut on a quite a few levels, but as many sites of its kind, it never gained traction in Japan. The American company started working on a Japanese localization (in February this year) before announcing a full-fledged entry into the local market back in...
According to an email I received today from Mixi (they didn’t post the information on their website for some reason), the NIKEiD social banner ad campaign they started earlier this month on their site worked. Does this pave the way to another channel of monetization for Japan’s biggest...
Roughly 25 of the 30 billion or so page views Japan’s biggest social network Mixi is seeing per month come from mobile phones, meaning it’s not a big surprise that today Mixi announced it will revamp the feature phone version of its service on June 22. The company says the new design is...
CyberAgent continues its South East Asian investment spree: through subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures the company acquired a 20% stake in Vietnam’s top Internet search advertising agency Clever Advertising. Further details of the deal weren’t disclosed. CyberAgent says that 30% of...
Facebook Japan has launched Facebook Deals, an e-coupon service that was introduced in the US in November 2010. In the official announcement, Facebook Japan says lists up 14 partner companies, including big names such as Domino’s, Lawson, Adidas Japan, GAP, and others. Japanese users...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry