{"id":7886,"date":"2010-04-06T21:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:03:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:03:59","slug":"two-big-japanese-affiliate-service-providers-to-merge-to-japan-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/two-big-japanese-affiliate-service-providers-to-merge-to-japan-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Big Japanese Affiliate Service Providers To Merge To Japan No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkshare.ne.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/linkshare-logo.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"linkshare-logo\" width=\"221\" height=\"53\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7887\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficgate.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/trafficgate_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Logo of TrafficGate\" width=\"197\" height=\"33\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3988\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwo Japanese web affiliate service provider(ASP) LinkShare Japan and Traffic Gate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkshare.ne.jp\/press\/news\/2010\/03\/ls_tg.html\">announced<\/a> [J] to unite on May 1st, 2010. They will be the largest ASP in Japan.<br \/>\nBehind LinkShare Japan, there is a parent company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitsui.co.jp\/en\/index.html\">MITSUI &#038; CO.,LTD.<\/a>, aka <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitsui_%26_Co.\">Mitsui Bussan, zaibatsu-type sogo shosha (general trading companies)<\/a> who jointly established LinkShare Japan with US LinkShare.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficgate.net\/\">TrafficGate<\/a> is a 100% subsidiary of Japan&#8217;s e-commerce giant <a href=\"http:\/\/corp.rakuten.co.jp\/en\/ir\/\">Rakuten<\/a>. Rakuten bought US LinkShare Corporation in 2005 so both ASP are related via Rakuten.<br \/>\nThe new company will keep &#8220;LinkShare&#8221; brand as a company name, and said to aim Asian market on top of US LinkShare&#8217;s activities in north America and Europe under the brand.<br \/>\nNone of four involved companies issued English press release on this merger on their sites, as far as I could search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Japanese web affiliate service provider(ASP) LinkShare Japan and Traffic Gate announced [J] to unite on May 1st, 2010. They will be the largest ASP in Japan. Behind LinkShare Japan, there is a parent company MITSUI &#038; CO.,LTD., aka Mitsui Bussan, zaibatsu-type sogo shosha (general trading companies) who jointly established LinkShare Japan with US LinkShare.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/two-big-japanese-affiliate-service-providers-to-merge-to-japan-no-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Big Japanese Affiliate Service Providers To Merge To Japan No.1<\/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":[17,24,37],"tags":[141,2100,2338,2339,3047,3790],"class_list":["post-7886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","category-usa","tag-affiliate-service-provider","tag-linkshare","tag-mitsui-co","tag-mitsui-bussan","tag-rakuten","tag-traffic-gate","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886","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=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}