By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Facebook Japan today inked a quite spectacular deal with Tokyo-based Dentsu, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world. Under the deal, Dentsu will become the official representative of Facebook Japan’s sales and marketing operations (also see here). Dentsu will consult Japanese...
Established in February 2010, Facebook Japan‘s Tokyo office was the first outside the US (outside the Bay Area, even) staffed with engineers. There are six people working for the company at the moment in their office in Harajuku (actually a remodeled apartment), three Japanese and three...
Nico Nico Douga might be Japan’s biggest homegrown video service, but Dwango’s site is clearly overshadowed by YouTube Japan, at least if data provided by Tokyo-based Video Research Interactive is to be believed. Major Japanese tech news outlet ITmedia regularly releases data coming...
In Japan, it’s no secret that Dwango is the quirkiest web company of them all (among those listed, for sure), and it even shows when it comes to investor relations. The Nico Nico Douga operator regularly posts PR company videos in the IR section of the website, and while the general tone is...
Dwango has inked a deal with Paypal Japan that allows users of Nico Nico Douga to pay their monthly subscription fees via Paypal. So far, Nico Nico users were just able to choose between payment via credit cards or the monthly cell phone bill. Obviously, the motivation for Dwango here is to make it...
Mixi today announced the launch of “Socialphone”, an app that will make it easier for Android users to access the social network on their handsets (Mixi started offering the official Mixi app for Android in December last year). Socialphone can be downloaded for free from the Android...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry