By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry

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Overview: What Are Japan’s Biggest Video Sites?

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Nico Nico Douga might be Japan’s biggest homegrown video service, but Dwango’s site is clearly overshadowed by YouTube Japan, at least if data provided by Tokyo-based Video Research Interactive is to be believed. Major Japanese tech news outlet ITmedia regularly releases data coming...

Nico Nico Douga Members Can Now Pay Via Paypal

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Dwango has inked a deal with Paypal Japan that allows users of Nico Nico Douga to pay their monthly subscription fees via Paypal. So far, Nico Nico users were just able to choose between payment via credit cards or the monthly cell phone bill. Obviously, the motivation for Dwango here is to make it...

Nico Nico Douga’s New TV Commercials

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Both DeNA (Mobage) and GREE had tremendous success in attracting users via TV commercial campaigns, and now Dwango is trying to do copy this formula with popular video sharing service Nico Nico Douga. Here are some of the TV commercials, for which Dwango hired J-Pop mega-star Gackt (and which are...

By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry