{"id":2699,"date":"2009-03-23T19:48:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2009-03-23T19:48:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:48:42","slug":"your-tv-to-show-commercial-messages-in-response-to-your-local-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/your-tv-to-show-commercial-messages-in-response-to-your-local-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Your TV To Show Commercial Messages In Response To Your Local Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2697\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/actvila.gif\" alt=\"Actvila's Logo\" width=\"184\" height=\"72\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2698\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/eten.gif\" alt=\"eTen's Logo\" width=\"186\" height=\"50\" \/><br \/>\nIn association with the meteorology company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eten-inc.jp\/\">eTen[J]<\/a>, the Tokyo-based broadband TV portal operator <a href=\"http:\/\/actvila.jp\/\">Actvila[J]<\/a> plans to launch weather-linked TV ad showing to the operator&#8217;s service subscribers in this coming April.<br \/>\nWhen signing up with the portal service, you will be requested to enter your zip code, which allows the operator to learn where you live.\u00a0\u00a0 The intended advertiser has to prepare some patterns of its TV ad clips for a variety of weather conditions.\u00a0\u00a0 In combination of the geographical data you entered and the weather forecast provided by eTen, you can watch the customized pattern of commercial breaks, which are fully in response to the weather condition in your region.<br \/>\nCosmetic and beverage sectors are highly expected to bring their weather-linked ads, because their sales perfomances are definitely reflected by the weather condition.<br \/>\nActvila was co-founded by several consumer electronics giants to promote the enhanced use of their digital TV sets, and most of brand new models support the operator&#8217;s portal service. \u00a0 With an ISP subscription and fiber-optic connectivity, you may enjoy watching on-demand movies and time-shift programs for free or by PPV (pay per view).<br \/>\nActvila contains &#8220;TV&#8221; in the middle of its name, and that sound means &#8220;open the door&#8221; in Japanese.<br \/>\neTen is a subsidiary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyperfectv.co.jp\/en\/\">Japan&#8217;s only satellite TV platform operator<\/a>, and known for being broadcast its weather TV programming nationwide 24\/7.<br \/>\nIn similar case (or not similar), in summer we usually watch TV commercial messages brought by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tepco.co.jp\/en\/index-e.html\">Tokyo Electric Company (TEPCO)<\/a> every morning, which advises us to cut power consumption by announcing the estimated number of the region&#8217;s electric demand.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Its main purposes are to avoid possible power outage caused by the higher electric demand than the capacities that power plants can cover, and also for CO2 reduction to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/unfccc.int\/kyoto_protocol\/items\/2830.php\">the Kyoto Protocol<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know whether the commercial message can contribute to the purposes, but I &#8216;m so impressed with its realtime response.\u00a0\u00a0 Every morning in summer days, the company calculates the expected demand based on the latest local weather parameters and scheduled events, and the number is announced in the commercial breaks on some of the TV morning shows.<br \/>\nAs you may see, weather-linked advertising is highly connected to the movements of nature, and it may contribute to reducing the people&#8217;s waste of consuming more stuffs than they require.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2696\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/e-tenki.jpg\" alt=\"e-tenki's Weather-related Content\" width=\"403\" height=\"228\" \/><br \/>\n(This example of Actvila&#8217;s weather-related contents is appeared on screen only in sunny days, when many people suffer from cedar pollen allergy.\u00a0\u00a0 The weather persons introduce countermeasures against the symptom.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In association with the meteorology company eTen[J], the Tokyo-based broadband TV portal operator Actvila[J] plans to launch weather-linked TV ad showing to the operator&#8217;s service subscribers in this coming April. When signing up with the portal service, you will be requested to enter your zip code, which allows the operator to learn where you live.\u00a0\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/your-tv-to-show-commercial-messages-in-response-to-your-local-weather\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your TV To Show Commercial Messages In Response To Your Local Weather<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[17,23],"tags":[112,1096],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-actvila","tag-eten","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}