Video marketing in Japan in 2018

Video Marketing in Japan is not something new, but the way it has been advertised is.

In recent years, video has shown great success at engaging users to a brand.

The millennial era has left us with many lessons. One of them is the continuous preference users have for all visual contents when transmitting a brand message, especially when doing it through social media.

If you are a brand that is trying to succeed in the digital world, you cannot overlook the importance of using video in your strategies. Look at the numbers below to get the importance of video marketing.

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Current and Future Trends of Content Marketing in Japan

Content is King

You might not be new to the concept of Content Marketing but you are probably unfamiliar with what Content Marketing in Japan is like.

Before digging into that, we can’t start this article without first mentioning the following important statement:

Great content is the key to your business and website`s success.

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Japanese SEO in 2018

Do you have or are you planning to launch a website in Japanese? If you already have a website, did you make sure it’s optimized for search in Japan? If you’re planning to launch a website in Japanese, did you do all the preparations to make sure it’s optimized for the search engines in Japan before launch?

In this post I will tell you all about Japanese SEO in 2018, guide you through the potential obstacles and what to think about.

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Instagram in Japan 2018. Latest brand trends.

Instagram has had an incredible impact in the social media game for a while now, and I think the trend will continue for many years more.

This app’s popularity is huge all over the world and Asia is the fastest growing region at the moment.

It is without a doubt one of the most recognizable apps, it currently has around 800 million users, granting it to be positioned as one of the most impactful and valuable brands, worth almost 15 billion dollars according to BrandZ Top 100 ranking!

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Top Lifestyle Influencers in Japan

Influencer marketing is here to stay and it’s grown at a tremendous rate in Japan in recent years.

It’s Info Cubic’s task to stay up-to-date with the latest in the digital marketing space in Japan, in this post you will learn about 17 of the most relevant lifestyle personalities and growing stars in today’s Japanese social media world.
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Japanese Millennials and the Growth of the Digital Market in Japan

When it comes to marketing, millennials are a generation that should definitely not be ignored. As one of the largest generations worldwide, they are expected to overtake the baby boomers in numbers by mid-2019.

In Japan, the ‘Yutori’ (millennial) generation is considered to be those born after 1987 and before 1997 give or take. Between 2017 and 2018 alone, millennials globally were estimated to spend more than $200 billion and they are expected to spend approximately $10 trillion in their lifetimes.

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Golden Week in Japan: Top 5 Destinations

Golden Week is a cluster of four consecutive public holidays running from the 29th of April to the 5th of May. It encompasses the celebration of Showa Day, (the Emperor’s Birthday), Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day and Children’s day.

Travelling during the busiest week of the year can be a draining experience if you choose to visit places like Kyoto and Osaka. Luckily, Japan offers plenty of travelling spots where the crowd can feel less overwhelming.

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Omnichannel Marketing in Japan

The late but rapid rise of e-commerce has caused many predicting the slow decline of traditional bricks and mortar stores across Japan.

This rise of ecommerce is set to continue, with JapanConsuming, an online publication devoted to the Japanese retail industry, predicting that the percentage of retail sales will rise from 9% to 23% by 20231.
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E-Commerce in Japan

Japan is currently one of the World’s fastest growing e-commerce markets.

Some factors attributed to this rapid growth include the single language culture, developed economy, and highly urbanized population.

There are three major players in the Japanese e-commerce market while a continued rise of m-commerce, transactions completed via mobile device apps, brings more options and expands on the C2C environment.

This coupled with a developed distribution infrastructure and small country size for convenient and expedient delivery will ensure Japan’s rate of e-commerce growth will only continue.

From 2018 to 2022 it is expected that the annual growth rate for revenue will be 6.2% and that Japan will remain one of the top 5 largest e-commerce markets in the world.

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The social media evolution and prediction for Japan

The social media landscape in Japan is extremely diverse, ranging from business-orientated apps to recreational and socializing applications that facilitate vast audiences globally.

Japanese social media has somewhat changed over the past couple of years and continues to do so.

This dynamic movement in technological advances has led to the rise of the digital era, also understood to be ‘The Chaos Theory’.

This theory emphasizes the evolution, unpredictability and nonlinear nature of the digital world we live in.

In order to acclimatize and adapt to this digital evolution, we need to consider the various platforms that these applications operate on.

The most utilized social media platforms in the Japanese industry are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Line.

In order to utilize these platforms effectively, you need to understand the nature thereof.

Thus when one considers the relevancy and effectiveness of these online spaces in the industry, their statistics indicated their reason for being.

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