{"id":7203,"date":"2010-01-06T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2010-01-06T13:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:16:38","slug":"social-illustration-network-pixiv-now-has-1-5-million-members-racks-up-1-2-billion-pvs-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/social-illustration-network-pixiv-now-has-1-5-million-members-racks-up-1-2-billion-pvs-monthly\/","title":{"rendered":"Social illustration network Pixiv now has 1.5 million members, racks up 1 billion PVs monthly"},"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=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJapanese &#8220;social illustration site&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiv.net\/\">Pixiv<\/a> continues to amaze. The site, which lets users present self-made drawings to other users and offers a number of basic social networking functionalities, now counts a whopping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiv.co.jp\/pressrelease\/150.html\">1.5 million members<\/a> [JP]. Not bad for a completely domestic site that&#8217;s only available in Japanese (although\u00a0 some foreigners exhibit their works on it as well).<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s how a typical page looks like:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pixiv_screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7204\" title=\"pixiv_screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pixiv_screenshot-400x374.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s crunch some numbers: The service was established in September 2007. Pixiv&#8217;s user base stood at 100,000 in March 2008. <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/social-illustration-network-pixiv-now-has-1-million-members\/\">In June 2009<\/a>, the site had 1 million members, meaning it added half a million people in about six months. It took 838 days to go from zero to 1.5 million members.<br \/>\nMore impressive stats:<br \/>\nPixiv now racks up 1 billion page views per month (up from 720 million monthly half a year ago). Members post 18,000 drawings <em>per day<\/em>.<br \/>\nThere are <a href=\"..\/2008\/05\/17\/7-web-services-to-become-creative-japanese-style\/\">more<\/a> social drawing services in Japan, but no other site can stack up to Pixiv in popularity.<br \/>\nThe eponymous, Tokyo-based company has 20 employees.\u00a0 If you want to know more, Wikipedia offers a great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pixiv\">English entry<\/a> on Pixiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese &#8220;social illustration site&#8221; Pixiv continues to amaze. The site, which lets users present self-made drawings to other users and offers a number of basic social networking functionalities, now counts a whopping 1.5 million members [JP]. Not bad for a completely domestic site that&#8217;s only available in Japanese (although\u00a0 some foreigners exhibit their works on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/social-illustration-network-pixiv-now-has-1-5-million-members-racks-up-1-2-billion-pvs-monthly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social illustration network Pixiv now has 1.5 million members, racks up 1 billion PVs monthly<\/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":[9,17,24],"tags":[2889],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","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\/7203","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=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}