NIKONIKO JAPANESE SERVICE FOR VIDEO SHARING.

NIKONIKO JAPANESE SERVICE FOR VIDEO SHARING.

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-:NIKONIKO:-

nikoniko is a Japanese service for video sharing.

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nikoniko is a Japanese service for video sharing on. "nikoniko" or "Nikoniko" is the Japanese ideology for smiling. As of September 2015, according to Alexa Traffic Ranking, NikoNiko is the tenth most visited website in Japan. The site won the Japanese Good Design Award in 2007, and received an honorable mention from the Digital Community category at the 2008 RS Electronica Dex.

-:nikoniko FEATURES:-

Users can upload, watch and share video clips. However, unlike other video sharing sites, comments overlap directly in the video, synchronized with specific playback

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times. This feature allows comments to react directly to events that occur in the video, creating a sense of shared viewing experience, in synchronization with the viewer. As of February 2013 with Hiroyuki Nishimura as director of Niwango, nikoniko's atmosphere and cultural context are close to those of the 2 channel or the Futaba channel. Many popular videos on this site have otaku flavors, such as anime, computer games, and pop music. nikoniko provides a function for users (not just video loaders) to tag videos. Each video can contain eleven tags, up to five of which the magazine can block. Often, this functionality can be used not only as an assortment, but also as an important commentary, satire or other humor related to the content of the video. The site is also known for its mix of popular songs on its MAD videos and website, most notably Kumayoku Nico Nico Dooga. nikoniko also distributed some original network animations, such as Candy Boy, Tentai Sensei Sunread and Penguin Musume Heart.

-:nikoniko Other features include:-

1. Mylist: Each user can create "mylists", which act like a list of bookmarks. Users can have a maximum of 25 mylist folders, but the number of videos per folder depends on the membership status of the user. A basic account can have 100 videos per folder, while a premium account (paid) has five times that amount (500). Below this limit, a free member can have 2,500 videos included in the list, while premium members can include up to 12,500 videos. Mylist daily activity is used to calculate the default ranking view, although it can also be sorted by view or comment count. Mylists can optionally be made public and linked to; For example, to list the works of a magazine (for example, original songs or game videos).

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2. Magazine Comments: A video magazine can attach a permanent comment to a video. This feature is suitable for some cases such as subtitles, letters or corrections.

3. Nikoscript: Using special commands in Loader's comments, Loader can add special effects to the video, including voting, automatic transfer to another video, merit to the questionnaire, and other features.

-:History:-

Nobuko Kawakami, founder and CEO of nikoniko .

The first version of nikoniko used YouTube as a Video Source. When the site grew, traffic and bandwidth increased, the infrastructure of the YouTube server was strained, forcing YouTube to block nikoniko's access. As a result, niconico ceased operations, but two weeks later, the site was relaunched with a local video server. On May 7, 2007, niconico announced a Mobile phone version of the website. Since 9 August 2007, "NicoNico Douga (RC) Mobile" has provided services to NTT Docomo Mobile Phones and AU.

As of 31 October 2011, nikoniko has over 23,690,000 registered users, 6,870,000 mobile users and 1,390,000 premium users. Due to the limited capacity of the server, Niwango limits the number of free users who can access the website from peak time (7am to 2pm) depending on the time of registration. The website is in Japanese, and the majority of site traffic comes from Japan, although about four percent comes from outside Japan, specifically one percent from Taiwan. nikoniko launched a Taiwanese version of the site on 18 October 2007. In July 2008, nikoniko launched German and Spanish versions of the

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site, after which an update was released for the Taiwanese language version. An English version was added on 17 October 2012, replacing the Nikonico.com website with translation functionality, which allows users to translate video descriptions into English or Chinese.

On April 27, 2012, NikoNiko Dougaannounced that he would be renamed nikoniko. The site also introduced a new "Zero" update, which improves video resolution, along with several other updates.

nikoniko was launched in Japan on July 13, 2017 for the Nintendo Switch and was the first third-party media application in any market. Niconico.com In 2010, an English version was being produced, and in April 2011, a beta English website, nikoniko, was launched. Unlike Nikonico's Japanese counterpart (nicovideo.jp), Niconico.com hosted videos from YouTube, Dailymotion and Nicolo. Similar to the pre-2007 niconico version, users can watch videos hosted through the nikoniko player version, complete with commenting and tagging systems. The site also aired select anime titles as of June 2011. On October 14, 2011, nikoniko announced a partnership with Funtico Entertainment to create Funtico to manage anime property licenses for streaming and home video. With the implementation of the facilities in English at Nikovido.jp, Niconico.com retired on November 19, 2012 and now redirects to the Japanese website. In March 2018, nikoniko announced the termination of community services in English.

-:Business aspect:-

Revenue

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nikoniko's main income comes from premium membership membership, advertising and NikoNiko Ichiba (Affiliate).

premium Membership

By early 2019, users will have to register an account to watch videos in nikoniko. There are two types of registered accounts; Free (basic level) and Premium (subscription) accounts. The premium membership fee is 550 yen per month or 6,600 yen per year. By 2 January 2012, they had reached 1,500,000 premium members. Users can purchase a premium subscription through PayPal. Japanese users can also pay with mobile devices, credit cards, line pay and webmoney.

-:advertisement:-

nikoniko uses Google advertising and other web advertisements. On 8 May 2008, Davango announced a partnership with Yahoo! There are plans to adopt search related to search and other services related to Japan and Yahoo.

-:NicoNico Ichiba (Affiliate):-

niconico Ichiba is a unique advertising system in which users can freely place banners on each video page. Users who upload content and viewers can choose which elements they want to place on the advertising banner. Users can also know how many clicks are in each accumulated banner and how many items they have purchased. Classification information on the quantity of

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items purchased through niconico Ichiba is also officially provided. The available items are from Amazon.co.jp, Yahoo Shopping and Davango Mobile Service.

As of July 2010, niconico Ichiba has been expanded on the Taiwanese website.

-:financial situation:-

In the 2010 fourth quarter fiscal year 2011 third quarter, nikoniko's total income was approximately 10.81 billion yen (US $ 139.1 million as of 10 November 2011), and recorded an operating profit of 670 million yen (US $ 8.6 million).

On October 30, 2007 Dwango and JASRAC (a Japanese company of copyright holders) agreed to form a comprehensive partnership. For this agreement, Nikoniko Davango will pay two percent of its profits to JASRAC as copyright royalties.

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