{"id":179,"date":"2008-03-05T19:20:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T10:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/niconico-douga-sp1-and-its-expanding-reach\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T19:20:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T10:20:43","slug":"niconico-douga-sp1-and-its-expanding-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/niconico-douga-sp1-and-its-expanding-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Niconico Douga SP1 and its expanding reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/' title='Niconico Douga'><img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/niconico-douga-sp1-logo.gif' alt='Niconico Douga Logo (SP1)' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/niwango.jp\/\">Niwango<\/a> hold a press conference about its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/\">Niconico Douga<\/a>&#8216;s update release &#8220;SP1&#8221; (upgraded from &#8220;RC2&#8221;) on March 5th 13:00 (JST).<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/niconico-douga-sp1-and-its-expanding-reach\/niconico-douga-press-conference-2008-03-05-2\/' rel='attachment wp-att-183' title='Niconico Douga Press Conference 2008-03-05'><img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/niconico-douga-press-200803051.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Niconico Douga Press Conference 2008-03-05' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Current statistics of Niconico Douga provided by director Seiji Sugimoto:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>5.6 million registered users<\/li>\n<li>1.14 million of users using cellularphone version<\/li>\n<li>189 thousands paid users<\/li>\n<li>listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.com\/services\/imode\/index.html\">NTT Docomo&#8217;s i-mode<\/a> official site<\/li>\n<li>Ads sale in Feb 2008: 32 million yen<\/li>\n<li>Sales from Niconico Ichiba(market) in Feb: 86 million yen<\/li>\n<li>Copyright holder partners: 38 companies<\/li>\n<li>under discussion with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasrac.or.jp\/ejhp\/index.htm\">JASRAC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/niconico-douga-sp1-and-its-expanding-reach\/niconico-douga-has-56-million-users-2\/' rel='attachment wp-att-184' title='Niconico Douga has 5.6 million users'><img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/niconico-douga-user-graph1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Niconico Douga has 5.6 million users' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>New features by Hiroyuki Nishimura:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Niconico Movie Maker free tool given out to encourage potential movie creators<\/li>\n<li>H.264 support<\/li>\n<li>Top page design renewal<\/li>\n<li>My profile page added<\/li>\n<li>Provides widget to other blog service providers and social networking services, starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.com\/\">livedoor blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/\">Hatena Diary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.so-net.ne.jp\/\">So-net blog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/trunc.jp\/\">trunc<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mini-games on movies with score ranking<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced &#8220;Nico-script&#8221; for clickable link, comment-suppression, poll functions on top of current jump function, on March 13th<\/li>\n<li>Niconico News Maker : CGM news, in April<\/li>\n<li>Niconico Dai Hyakka : CGM encyclopedia, in April<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Hiroshi Kobayashi talked that their Niconico Douga business is still in red, but improving supported by advertisement\/affiliate. They haven&#8217;t touched mobile version ads yet so it is being planned toward profitable.<br \/>\nJapanese geek&#8217;s portal Hatena <a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/hatenadiary\/20080305\/1204692193\">announced<\/a> its joining hands with Niconico Douga by allowing new embeddable Niconico-Douga-video widget on its diary(blog) service. (You may see kitten video with Niconico-comments without Niconico-account on the annonunce page)<br \/>\n[update 2008-03-19] Vox supports Niconico Douga Widget. As Vox is an international service, now it is possible to show Niconico Douga widgets in non-Japanese blog.<\/p>\n<h3>See also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/niconico-douga\/\">Niconico douga | Asiajin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/niconico-douga-expressed-its-taiwan-version-begins-next-week\/\">Niconico-Douga expressed its Taiwan version begins next week | Asiajin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/some-niconico-douga-videos-available-without-registration\/\">Some Niconico-douga videos available without registration | Asiajin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyotronic.com\/2007\/11\/how-to-register-for-nico-nico-douga.html\">Tokyotronic: How to register for Nico Nico Douga<\/a><br \/>\n<footnote>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/next.current.co.jp\/\">shike@current<\/a>. Thanks.<\/footnote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niwango hold a press conference about its Niconico Douga&#8216;s update release &#8220;SP1&#8221; (upgraded from &#8220;RC2&#8221;) on March 5th 13:00 (JST). Current statistics of Niconico Douga provided by director Seiji Sugimoto: 5.6 million registered users 1.14 million of users using cellularphone version 189 thousands paid users listed on NTT Docomo&#8217;s i-mode official site Ads sale in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/niconico-douga-sp1-and-its-expanding-reach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Niconico Douga SP1 and its expanding reach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[17,29,38],"tags":[2588,2952,4082],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-service","category-video","tag-nico-nico-douga","tag-press-conference","tag-widget","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}