Japan's big SNS site to post nearly 700% up profit

On July 29, GREE (gree.jp), one of the biggest SNS sites in Japan, announced its financial report from June. The report shows that they had 374% increase in sales and 696% increase in profit compare to June of last year.

Since last year, GREE has been promoting the services through TV commercials and partnerships with other media and sites to increase the membership. As a result, their membership has reached 12.6million by the end of June.

Gaming is one of GREE’s popular services, and the monthly service fee has been an important source of their revenue.

Motoko Hunt

Motoko Hunt manages the SEO for all of Adobe's properties in Japan and the APAC region. Prior to joining Adobe, Motoko established AJPR in 1998; she has been providing search marketing consulting services targeting Japan and Asia to companies around the world. Her services have made a big impact on the search marketing campaigns of some of the world's most popular multi-national brands. A number of her articles have been published on industry websites and printed media including MultiLingual Computing and the International Journal of Localisation. She also writes about the Japanese online market on her blog at AJPR and contributes to several online magazines in Japan and Asia. She served as a member of the board of directors of SEMPO in 2010-2012, and is a chairperson of the SEMPO Asia-Pacific Committee.

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beno says:
August 5, 2009 at 5:39 am
We would like to contact Motoko-san for a project related to SNS in Japan.
Is it possible for Motoko to contact us.
Thank you very much.
Best regards.
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Soulchilde says:
October 12, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Interesting post. Try this article for size on Korean SNS site analysis and monetization…
http://saemin.textcube.com/41
Have a good one
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