Comments on: Video Comments The Japanese Way (Nico Nico Douga)

By: Asiajin » In Japan, Freemium Works. Nico Nico Douga paid member user base passes 500k

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:30:15 +0000

[...] outlier is Nico Nico Douga [JP], a Japanese video portal with a unique commenting system (Asiajin articles). Nico Nico says [JP] that the number of paid users passed the 500,000 mark this [...]

By: Social Media in Japan – Part 2 « Media, Marketing and Culture

Social Media in Japan – Part 2 « Media, Marketing and Culture — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:53:01 +0000

[...] Nico Nico generates revenue in three different ways. There are currently 200,000 Premium members (up from 90,000 in November 2007) who pay $5 per month for easier access to the site and additional functions. Niwango also sells ad space, accounting for around $300,000 monthly. Sales from affiliate links generate approximately $820,000 per month (official figures for February 2008). That adds up to $2.1 million a month, or a $25 million annualized revenue run-rate. (Techcrunch) [...]

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Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:04:35 +0000

[...] some of the higher reach than Youtube sites show have live social messaging at bottom of screen; (techcrunch reading on this + wired feature on founder [...]

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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:03:48 +0000

[...] TechCrunch finally added some coverage of the world’s second largest economy and #2 richest Internet market, Japan. This move might bring more awareness about the country’s Internet scene (and maybe mobile?). [...]

By: Kevin Yusharyahya

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:48:43 +0000

They’ve upgraded into Nico Nico Douga Winter Version now…Hope they’d make an english version soon.

By: Contentinople - R. Scott Raynovich - Web 2.0 Video Panel: Sweaters, Neutrogena & Jeff Scher

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:30:35 +0000

[...] up, something from a Japanese site called Nico Nico Douga. Think, Ronald McDonald meets Japanese [...]

By: A lesson from Japan at The TrendWatch

A lesson from Japan at The TrendWatch — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:56:12 +0000

[...] TV tuner) and video sharing will soon become a top mobile entertainment. You Tube on mobile and Nico Nico Video Sharing are already becoming a clear [...]

By: miharu

miharu — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:17:13 +0000

>In Japan, businessmen can buy teen girls soiled and used panties out of vending machines.

That’s so untrue. Where did you get that information?

By: Takkun

Takkun — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:06:49 +0000

Friday 18th, they released its German and Spanish version, and renewed its Taiwan (traditional Chinese) version.

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By: Kagami_NT

Kagami_NT — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:59:09 +0000

I, too, came here from the link on Nico Nico’s front page.

As others have said, Nico Nico replicates the experience of watching a video with a group of people in real-time. Sharing reactions as they happen is fun in a way that can’t be duplicated with after-the-fact comments. To this day, it puzzles me that Youtube hasn’t copied this feature.

I went to check out iminlikewithyou.com mentioned in Raskin’s comment, but was disappointed with the messy implementation–huge text balloons with seemingly random popup locations pulling your eyes around the screen, usernames attached to every comment, GRAPHICAL AVATARS?! It’s like they forgot we’re trying to watch a video at the same time…

By: Vebiki » Blog Archive » Video Siteleri Copyright Derdiyle Uğraşıyor

Vebiki » Blog Archive » Video Siteleri Copyright Derdiyle Uğraşıyor — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:38:09 +0000

[...] önce TechCrunch’da Serkan Toto tarafından incelenen Nico Nico Douga, Japonların Youtube’u, copyright meselesi yüzünden birçok videosunu [...]

By: mitz

mitz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:56:30 +0000

kevinay is right. It could be cultural thing, but watching (not reading:) comments and writing comments is a lot of fun. It’s different than just watching what you normally watch on TV show.
Also youtube’s implementation of similar feature is totally different. These are intended for video creator, while niconico’s one is for watchers to be a part of content creation, which is really fun. Some comments are even artistic, which a lot of people would applauld.
It is true that they have better quality and longer videos, but i don’t think it matters. What makes niconico unique is their unique comment system.

If you haven’t tried, just try it.

By: kevinay

kevinay — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:15:24 +0000

I recently joined Nico Nico Douga, while having only a little understanding of the Japanese language. The registration part wasn’t that hard anyway. I used to browse normally on YouTube if I’m bored, so I don’t really go there all the time searching for videos.
The comment system in Nico Nico Douga makes you feel that you’re watching the video with several other people… Meaning that you’re like joining some kind of video watching party. And sometimes the comments are useful, or they’re just art (watch some of the popular videos in Nico Nico Douga and you’ll sometimes view a whole screen comment of ASCII art). For me, they’re not distracting, they’re useful and fun.
The video quality is very nice, and really awesome when compared to YouTube. And another thing is that they didn’t have time limits for uploaded videos, so they don’t ruin the experience like in YouTube, when I have to click Part 1, Part 2, and so on. I’ve been on YouTube for 2 years now, and I’ve watched more videos in Nico Nico Douga from YouTube. Nowadays I go there all the time and I once spent half a day at that website. Well, mainly watching all the new VOCALOID PVs… Now, I don’t even go to YouTube anymore… Since the quality of video is much better in Nico Nico Douga.
I even promoted the site at school and they all loved it. Well, some of them didn’t really like the comments feature and disabled it, but they loved the video quality. As for me, I love the comments and never disabled them. Maybe the comments are an Asian thing and Westerners doesn’t really like it.
And same as the guy above, I followed the news link on the front page of Nico Nico Douga to here.

By: sanopup

sanopup — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:58:15 +0000

I joined Nico Nico recnetly, not long after they took down the view time restriction for new users, but I consider myself a light user as I don’t spend a lot of time watching videos online. So far I’ve only viewed videos in a few specific categories and find it a rather additive experience.

The comment system adds value and often insights to the video. I used to turn off the comments at first, but I rarely do that now. If I feel like it, sometimes I’ll input a few comments when I watch it at home (I can only type Japanese on my home PC).
There’s also videos taking advantage of the comment system and conduct surveys this way. I did a couple fun ones like “If you know so many out of this many anime/game songs, your life is over” and “Which actor/character do you like better.”

The tag system is also quite interesting. The tags would often give you a hint as to what the video might contain (once I saw a tag that warned of the loud volume and was able to turn it down before the video started playing) or what many people think of it. It’s rather entertaining.

I think the video quality is better than YouTube’s, at least in the handful of videos I compared while trying to promote some vocaloid songs to my friends (they don’t understand Japanese so don’t want to bother signing up with Nico Nico). The one down side is that you can’t skip ahead and have to wait for the part to load.

Despite the longer time of my relationship with YouTube, I’ve watched a lot more video on Nico Nico and rarely go to YouTube now. My brother, on the other hand, tried Nico Nico but couldn’t really get past the Japanese interface (I helped him sign up) and went back to YouTube. Surfing habit-wise, I think he’s closer to a typical Westerner’s while I’m closer to an Asian’s. But then, knowing the language probably makes a whole lot of difference.

I actually followed a news link from the homepage of Nico Nico Douga here, btw.

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By: Shaun Lau

Shaun Lau — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:24 +0000

Despite what you think, this site has found a niche among a untapped subculture – Asian geeks who can’t get enough of their anime fix. I should know – I used to room with one in college. He downloads 3 anime episodes / movies a day!

He probably be jumpin’ with joy upon discovering this site – the real-time scrolling text comment is a nifty way for him to communicate with the outside world and probably help him socialize with an internet gf

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By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:20:29 +0000

In order to discourage users creating multiple accounts at nico video, I believe that new users are only allowed to access videos during a certain period of time. As users kept their account for a while (24 hours I think), they will be able to access videos at any time of the day. Although this does not seem like a strict restriction at first, it appears to effectively eliminate users with multiple accounts (at least in nico video’s case)

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By: medamanooyaji

medamanooyaji — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:12:16 +0000

when thinking about the present success of nicovideo, you have to think about the history of youtube and nicovideo.
I remember, in Japan internet community, youtube get popular in the beginning of 2006. Nicovideo began in the beginning of 2007. first system of nicovideo was just overlay the comment on the youtube video. after, nicovideo have to reopen its system(stop dependence on youtube).
one of the reason of success is , when people needed differences with youtube, niwango could give difference with youtube by new comment system.

also you have to refer to 2-channel, the most popular online forum in Japan.
Though dowango is corporation,dowango have some relation with 2ch.
in 2001, 2ch had big problem of large traffics. the member of the programmer who solved the problem includes present staffs of dowango. this is the very reason dowango can cooperate with owner of 2-channel,Hiroyuki Nishimura , and can make website where 2-channel user enjoy(i mean, the staff of nicovideo and 2-channeler share same sense of online-community)

By: Ryan Mickle

Ryan Mickle — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:50:33 +0000

Serkan, awesome post. The careful eye on Japanese web properties, feature trends and comparisons, etc. are really helpful. Thanks for sharing.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:28:28 +0000

With all of the socialization of web sites in the US, I think this would work fine. What could be more social than a bunch of people having fun commenting on videos? Most of the things people write are really funny. Remember “Pop-Up Videos”? They were pretty fun and addictive for a while.

Also note that you can turn off some or all of the comments easily.

I think the main weakness of the business model right now is it’s complete reliance on Youtube as a resource for videos. If Youtube Japan put a stop to use of videos originally posted on Youtube, NicoNico would lose a huge part of its library.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:33:05 +0000

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