Google, Dwango and FC2 Lead Japan's Online Video Market Music and Television Companies Top YouTube Partner Channel Rankings
Tokyo, Japan, February 21, 2013 comScore Japan K.K., a wholly owned subsidiary of comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), today released data from comScore Video Metrix showing that 60 million Japanese internet users watched online videos in December 2012. The top 3 video properties by viewing audience in Japan were Google Sites, Dwango, and FC2, while VEVO, Fuji Television, and Sony Music Entertainment Japan ranked as the most popular YouTube Partner Channels.
FC2 Leads Top 10 Video Properties in Average Engagement
Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing on YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property in December 2012 with 50 million unique viewers. Dwango Co., Ltd ranked second with 29 million viewers, followed by FC2 with 22 million viewers. DMM, although lower in the rankings with 5.2 million unique viewers, showed a year-over-year increase of 713 percent, the highest growth rate among the top 10 properties. In terms of engagement (Minutes per Viewer), FC2 ranked first among the top 10 with more than 23 hours per viewer while boasting the fastest year-over-year growth of 79 percent.
Japan Top Online Video Content Properties Ranked by Unique Video Viewers
December 2012
Total Japan - Home and Work Locations
Content Videos Only (Ad Videos Not Included)
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Unique Viewers (000) Minutes per Viewer Average Videos per Visit
Dec-2012 % Change vs. Year Ago Dec-2012 % Change vs. Year Ago Dec-2012 % Change vs. Year Ago
Total Internet: Total Audience 60,939 3% 2,842.0 26% 7.4 -20%
Google Sites 50,782 30% 341.5 -6% 5.0 -28%
Dwango Co., Ltd. 29,025 3% 1,301.9 28% 3.6 -33%
FC2 inc. 22,608 30% 1,399.4 79% 11.5 107%
Ustream 7,550 2% 135.7 16% 7.3 101%
DailyMotion.com 7,339 17% 131.8 9% 2.3 -9%
Anitube 6,235 32% 290.6 30% 2.3 -1%
Yahoo! Sites 5,783 -21% 391.1 -11% 4.3 26%
TENCENT Inc. 5,607 9% 162.5 20% 1.6 -19%
DMM 5,292 713% 140.1 -85% 3.5 -17%
VEVO 3,922 16% 19.4 -34% 2.4 -14%
Top Video Sites Skew Towards Male Audience
The gender composition of viewers for the top 3 online video content properties were nearly 60 percent male and 40 percent female, although FC2 had an even higher percentage of male viewers. Google Sites had the highest percentage of users in the 35-44 and 55+ age groups while Dwango had the highest percentage of 15-24 year olds across both genders.
Demographic Composition of Japan Top 3 Online Video Content Properties
December 2012
Total Japan - Home and Work Locations
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Google Sites Dwango Co., Ltd FC2 inc
Male (%) Female (%) Male (%) Female (%) Male (%) Female (%)
All Ages (15+) 56.7 43.3 58.0 42.0 64.4 35.6
Age 15-24 9.2 7.9 16.2 11.6 15.0 8.2
Age 25-34 10.5 8.1 14.0 7.5 13.8 5.8
Age 35-44 13.0 10.5 9.7 6.8 13.1 7.1
Age 45-54 9.7 8.1 7.4 8.7 10.5 8.0
Age 55+ 14.3 8.7 10.8 7.3 12.2 6.5
VEVO Leads YouTube Partner Channels in Japan
An analysis of leading YouTube Partner Channels shows VEVO ranked highest with 3.9 million unique viewers in December 2012, followed by Fuji Television with 3.4 million viewers, Sony Music Entertainment Japan with 3.2 million viewers, avex with 3.1 million viewers, and TBS with 2.9 million viewers. VEVO also had the highest number of videos with more than 29 million videos watched during the month. avex came second with 16 million videos, followed by Sony Music Entertainment Japan with 12 million videos, TV Asahi with 10 million videos, and Fuji Television with 9 million videos. VEVO also led the engagement rankings with 19.5 minutes per viewer, followed by TV Asahi with 14.6 minutes per viewer, and avex with 12.3 minutes per viewer.
Japan Select YouTube Partner Channels
December 2012
Total Japan - Home and Work Locations
Content Videos Only (Ad Videos Not Included)
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Unique
Viewers (000) Videos*1 (000) Minutes per
Viewer
VEVO 3,898 29,557 19.5
Fuji Television*2 3,473 9,741 5.3
Sony Music Entertainment Japan 3,284 12,872 9.8
avex 3,157 16,231 12.3
TBS*3 2,957 7,701 3.9
Maker Studios Inc. 2,214 7,415 9.7
TV Asahi*4 2,099 10,034 14.6
Warner Music 1,992 7,928 10.6
BandaiChannel 1,991 7,206 11.3
jijicom 1,887 3,357 5.0
*1 A video is defined as any streamed segment of audiovisual content, including both progressive downloads and live streams. For long-form, segmented content, (e.g. television episodes with ad pods in the middle) each segment of the content is counted as a distinct video stream. Video views are inclusive of both user-initiated and auto-played videos that are viewed for longer than 3 seconds.
*2 Fuji Television includes Fuji TV OP @YouTube, FujiTV@YouTube, and fujitv monetize@YouTube
*3 TBS includes TBS-JP@YouTube and tbscts@YouTube.
*4 TV Asahi includes tvasahi-vid-only@YouTube and Tv Asahi Music@YouTube.
*YouTube Partner Reporting based on online video content viewing and does not include claimed user-generated content.
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Google, Dwango and FC2 Lead Japan's Online Video Market Music and Television Companies Top YouTube Partner Channel Rankings 
