By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Smartphones are booming in Japan, and now CyberAgent has announced the “Ameba Smartphone Platform”, which will give developers access to an API to use communication channels Ameba users have, Ameba rankings, pictures posted on blogs etc. With the platform, CyberAgent (obviously) wants...
CyberAgent‘s Ameba is not only Japan’s biggest blogging site with 13 million members, it’s also famous for its “Ameba Geinoujin-Yuumeijin” (“Ameba Talents-Celebrities”) blogging platform, which hit the 9,000 user mark in January 2011. And now CyberAgent announced it will turn a...
CyberAgent quietly inked deal with Disney Japan to license some characters for Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan), CyberAgent’s wildly successful virtual world. To be more specific, CyberAgent created a “Disney Town” within Ameba Pigg, which looks like this (pictures via...
DeNA and CyberAgent today announced they will jointly launch an ad network specifically for the smartphone versions of Mobage (DeNA’s mobile social game platform) and Ameba (CyberAgent’s blogging and social networking platform). It’s one of the biggest alliances in Japan’s...
Japan’s smartphone market is growing rapidly, which means CyberAgent today announcing a new ad platform specifically aimed at these devices isn’t surprising. Dubbed “Ameba for Smartphone Touch Campus”, the ads will be shown on the company’s Ameba-branded services in...
Not only GREE, but also CyberAgent is aggressively hiring people at the moment, if a report by The Nikkei Marketing Journal (February 18 edition) is to be believed. The paper says that the Ameba provider wants to have 500 engineers (programmers) in its workforce by September 2012, up from the 200...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry