30's Women – top mobile shoppers in Japan
ImpressR&D’s recent survey shows interesting results about mobile commerce in Japan. The most interesting information is that 15% of women in 30’s said that they conducted all of the online shopping from their mobile phone. [Top mobile shoppers] – All generations (37%) – Women in 30s (47%) – Women in 20s (44%) – Men in […]
People search engine "SBI Business" open in Japan
SBI Robo’s social graph engine, SBI Business, is opened for business. When you search for someone’s name, it gives you the search results from search engines (MSN, Google and Yahoo), web and Wikipedia, official profile of the person, and social graph information. Currently, more than 4000 businesses and 25000 people’s data have been indexed. The […]
Japan's biggest mobile site to open US office
DeNA, who owns Japan’s biggest mobile SNS and gaming site “mobaga town”, announced its plan to set up a company in California. This is the first step of their plan to expand the market globally. The detail of the plan (services, opening date, etc.) was not announced. Mobaga Town (mbga.jp) is currently one of the […]
Japan's SEO market grew 25% in 2007
According to Aun Consulting’s report, SEO market had 9960 mil yen sales in 2007 (25% up from 7970 mil yen in 2006). 5710 mil yen: “In-House” SEO marketing 2600 mil yen: Out-sourced SEO marketing 1650 mil yen: Tool, etc. They think that the SEO market will continue to have a healthy growth in Japan, and […]
Baidu to officially open Japanese website on 23 January 2008
Baidu has announced that their Japanese site would officially open on 23 January 2008. On a current Japanese site, it provides “web”, “video” and “image” searches, but from the promotion page, it looks that they are going to provide “travel” and “Gourmet” searches as well. Baidu’s spider has been crawling aggressively to index Japanese pages […]
Mobile sites access peaks on Thursday in Japan
I just saw an interesting data of mobile sites access in Japan (by BeTrend). It shows that Japanese access mobile sites the most on Thursday of the week, and from 9pm to midnight of the day. It’s a well known fact that people browse mobile sites on their spare time, and it’s no surprise that […]
Japan's top manufactures go global on Internet
Export-Japan’s latest survey results show that more than 70% of Japanese top manufactures have English web site in addition to Japanese site. 1,684 top manufactures in Japan responded to the survey. Honda offers the most language sites (36 languages) followed by Nissan (33), Sony and Mitsubishi (31 each). The most popular second language is the […]
DeNA to introduce Overture Japan ads to Mbga.jp
Overture Japan and DeNA have agreed to introduce Overture’s paid ads to one of the largest Mobile gaming and SNS services in Japan, Mobaga Town (www.mbga.jp). The sponsored search mobile’s ads appear on “moba search”, and the content match mobile’s ads appear on news and other pages on Mobaga Town web site. Mobaga Town opened […]
ComScore turns attention to worldwide search activity
The research group comScore has released their first report looking at worldwide search activity, carried out over the month of August. Interesting reading to those dealing with multilingual marketing and a sign of the growing importance of this sector. The Asia-Pacific region, which includes large markets such as China, Japan and India, saw 258 million […]
Banner ads had -6.2% in Japan
According to Net Ratings’ “Ad Relevance” report, the banner advertising on web had 6.2% decrease in August from July. The decrease was not just in the amount of money spent on the advertising, but also the number of advertisers (-4.1%), number of campaigns (-4.8%) and number of banners (-6.5%), all had decrease in August. The […]