{"id":10121,"date":"2010-09-07T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10121"},"modified":"2010-09-07T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:08:25","slug":"mochi-media-scores-hit-virtual-world-ameba-pico-from-japans-cyberagent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/mochi-media-scores-hit-virtual-world-ameba-pico-from-japans-cyberagent\/","title":{"rendered":"Mochi Media &#8220;Scores&#8221; Hit Virtual World Ameba Pico From Japan&#8217;s CyberAgent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ameba-pico.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10122\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ameba-pico.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MochiMedia.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10124\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MochiMedia.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVirtual world <a href=\"http:\/\/pico.ameba.net\/\">Ameba Pico<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/pigg.ameba.jp\/\">Ameba Pigu<\/a> in Japan) is a success story.\u00a0The service was launched by Tokyo-based web powerhouse <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.cyberagent.co.jp\/ir_e\/\">CyberAgent<\/a> in February 2009 and went on attracting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/pdf\/2010\/0609_1.pdf\">four million members<\/a> [PDF] in Japan.<br \/>\nCyberAgent announced <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/virtual-world-ameba-pigg-to-go-english-next-spring-in-americanized-version\/\">an English version in November 2009<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/cyberagent-exports-social-avatar-community-to-english-ameba-pico\/\">went online in March 2010<\/a>. And if The Nikkei, Japan&#8217;s biggest business daily, is to be believed, that overseas version now has two million users (the Ameba Pico <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/amebapico\/\">Facebook app<\/a> boasts nearly 790,000 active users).<br \/>\nSo it appears that CyberAgent has managed to replicate the success story overseas, which doesn&#8217;t happen too often in Japan&#8217;s web industry. But now The Nikkei reports that the Japanese Internet company has given the rights to market Ameba Pico to Silicon Valley-based <a href=\"http:\/\/mochimedia.com\/\">Mochi Media<\/a>.<br \/>\nMochi Media (which was bought by Chinese gaming company Shanda <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/01\/11\/mochi-media-acquired-by-shanda-games\/\">earlier this year<\/a>) will monetize and distribute CyberAgent&#8217;s platform outside Japan from now on. According to the Nikkei, CyberAgent hopes to attract 5 million non-Japanese Ameba Pico members by year-end under a revenue share deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual world Ameba Pico (Ameba Pigu in Japan) is a success story.\u00a0The service was launched by Tokyo-based web powerhouse CyberAgent in February 2009 and went on attracting four million members [PDF] in Japan. CyberAgent announced an English version in November 2009, which went online in March 2010. And if The Nikkei, Japan&#8217;s biggest business daily,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/mochi-media-scores-hit-virtual-world-ameba-pico-from-japans-cyberagent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mochi Media &#8220;Scores&#8221; Hit Virtual World Ameba Pico From Japan&#8217;s CyberAgent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24,37],"tags":[207,808,2402,3990],"class_list":["post-10121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","category-usa","tag-ameba-pico","tag-cyberagent","tag-mochi-media","tag-virtual-world","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}