{"id":16472,"date":"2012-01-03T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T03:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=16472"},"modified":"2012-01-03T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T03:21:08","slug":"nico-nico-douga-hits-1-5-million-paid-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/nico-nico-douga-hits-1-5-million-paid-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Nico Douga Hits 1.5 Million Paid Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese online video sharing service Nico Nico Douga has got 1.5 million paid subscribers on January 3, 2012.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nico-nico-douga-150K-paid-members-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nico-nico-douga-150K-paid-members-screenshot-600x469.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"nico-nico-douga-150K-paid-members-screenshot\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-16473\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNico Nico Douga, with its unique overlay user-generated comments, is known by users&#8217; videos, but recently it airs programs from TV and movie as well both in free and paid channels.<br \/>\nNico Nico Premium Membership costs 525 yen (US$6.8) per month.<br \/>\nIt passed 1 million paid users on October 13, 2010. These days it seems to add<br \/>\nHulu Plus, a paid service of U.S. Hulu, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/09\/21\/us-hulu-subscribers-idUSTRE78K7DT20110921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed 1 million subscribers in September 2011<\/a>. Whlist Hulu has 40 million users in total, Nico Nico Douga&#8217;s number, having 1.5 million paying out of 22-23 million users, is impressive. And <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/hulu-japan-starts-first-international-extension\/\">it is not the largest paid video service in Japan<\/a>.<br \/>\n[Update 2012-01-13] Hulu <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hulu.com\/2012\/01\/12\/2011-2012-and-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced that their paid subscribers got 1.5 million<\/a>.<br \/>\nYou may check <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/nico-nico-douga\/\">our past news on Nico Nico Douga here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p>Nico Nico Douga&#8217;s Twitter bot celebrated 1.5 million paid users [J]<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/nicount_bot\/status\/153871090115018752<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese online video sharing service Nico Nico Douga has got 1.5 million paid subscribers on January 3, 2012. Nico Nico Douga, with its unique overlay user-generated comments, is known by users&#8217; videos, but recently it airs programs from TV and movie as well both in free and paid channels. Nico Nico Premium Membership costs 525&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/nico-nico-douga-hits-1-5-million-paid-subscribers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nico Nico Douga Hits 1.5 Million Paid Subscribers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16473,"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],"tags":[2588,2800,2802,3962],"class_list":["post-16472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-nico-nico-douga","tag-paid-subscribers","tag-paid-user","tag-video","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}