Blog - Page 28 of 37

October 14, 2009

Published by Motoko Hunt at October 14, 2009

Online advertising grew while Mass media went down

METI report shows the advertising industry in Japan continue to decline in sales. While 4 of the mass media such as TV and newspaper had 2 digit loss compare to the sales in the same month last year, Internet advertising had a slight growth in August 2009.

October 6, 2009

Published by Motoko Hunt at October 6, 2009

Search everything you want with Baidu Japan mobile

Baidu offers mobile search in Japan, which lets you search with Emoji (emoticons), too. It's not just a fun factor, but also helps usability.

September 30, 2009

Published by Motoko Hunt at September 30, 2009

Do you want new Japanese ccTLDs?

ICANN announced its plan to begin offering TLDs in different letters and characters other than Alphabet in 2010. The plan includes Japanese characters, which makes domains such as ".Japan" and ".Tokyo".

September 25, 2009

Published by Motoko Hunt at September 25, 2009

Shoppaholic? Smart Chinese women shop online

You can buy just about anything you want in Beijing, but most Western brand products cost at least 2 times more. It looks that smart Chinese women are shopping online to save money, and to spend more.

September 22, 2009

Published by Motoko Hunt at September 22, 2009

Japan’s PPC ad market will reach $2 billion by 2013

According to the report by Japan's MIAC, the PPC advertising market in 2008 grew 20% from 2007 reaching $1.3 billion, and may become $2 billion market by 2013. Read more stats here.

September 15, 2009

Published by Motoko Hunt at September 15, 2009

Yahoo Japan’s new keyword assist could change popular keywords

New Yahoo Japan's keyword assist service that automatically converts Roma-ji into Japanese characters could impact on the popular keywords, and to your SEO strategy.