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I wrote an article “Social Media Marketing – The Japanese Way” for ClickZ earlier this month. The article received more than 300 re-tweets in 3 days (currently has 350+), and it got me thinking how little information about non-US market is available, even in the world of “Internet”, which supposed[…]
Continue »Japan’s 2 Advertising Giants aim to strengthen Online Advertising
Dentsu and Hakuhodo DY Holdings announced the plan to strengthen online advertising in 2010. Dentsu announced the plan to increase Internet-related sales from March 2009 150 billion yen to 250 billion yen by March 2014.
Continue »Do you know what 50s+ are doing on Internet?
Online population is maturing in Japan. The 50+ users now makes 23% of online population and the share is growing. We don’t see many of them on SNS sites and social medias just yet, so what are they doing?
Continue »Back from Japan
Internet definitely became a part of Japanese people’s everyday life, but what’s actually happening and what’s the difference between US Internet market and Japanese Internet market? This is what I saw and heard during my last visit to Japan.
Continue »SNS and Video were big in Japan in ’07 – What’s next?
Social Networking Services, Blogs, and Video sharing became very popular in Japan in 2007. Some surveys show that some of these areas are already reaching the peak. So, what’s the next big thing in Japan in 2008?
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