{"id":4288,"date":"2009-06-30T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2009-06-30T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:48:25","slug":"social-illustration-network-pixiv-now-has-1-million-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/social-illustration-network-pixiv-now-has-1-million-members\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Social illustration&#8221; network Pixiv now has 1 million members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pixiv-log.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1362\" title=\"pixiv-log\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pixiv-log.jpg\" alt=\"pixiv-log\" width=\"160\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiv.net\">Pixiv<\/a> [JP], a Japanese-only &#8220;social illustration&#8221; network (<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/pixiv\/\">Asiajin articles<\/a>), today welcomed its one millionth member. The site boasts a healthy growth rate, as the user base stood at 100,000 in March 2008.<br \/>\nPixiv claims the site sees 720 million page views monthly and that users submit 15,000 illustrations daily. It&#8217;s not hard to believe. Look at this pretty impressive Google Trends graph (especially after April 2009):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pixiv_google_trends.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4289\" title=\"pixiv_google_trends\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pixiv_google_trends.png\" alt=\"pixiv_google_trends\" width=\"477\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe idea behind Pixiv is to provide talented amateur artists with a platform to present their drawings to other people. Registered users can rate these drawings, write comments on them, bookmark them etc.\u00a0 The usual social network features are in place, too: befriending, profiles, messaging etc.<br \/>\nHere is a typical image (click for a larger view):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pixiv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4290\" title=\"pixiv\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pixiv-398x400.jpg\" alt=\"pixiv\" width=\"470\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPremium members pay $6 a month to get a badge on their profile and some other benefits (judging from what I heard, Pixiv also attracts quite a few gaijin who can&#8217;t talk Japanese but somehow fight their way through the registration process).<br \/>\nLook <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/7-web-services-to-become-creative-japanese-style\/\">here<\/a> for a list of other social drawing services from Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pixiv [JP], a Japanese-only &#8220;social illustration&#8221; network (Asiajin articles), today welcomed its one millionth member. The site boasts a healthy growth rate, as the user base stood at 100,000 in March 2008. Pixiv claims the site sees 720 million page views monthly and that users submit 15,000 illustrations daily. It&#8217;s not hard to believe. Look&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/social-illustration-network-pixiv-now-has-1-million-members\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Social illustration&#8221; network Pixiv now has 1 million members<\/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],"tags":[2889],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-pixiv","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}