Website Review - January 2007
More Japanese Video Clips
In October’s Website Review I was talking about the popularity of YouTube and the availability of Japan-related videos on the site. YouTubes’s new owners are well aware of the commercial value of building internet communities/groups and this is something they’re trying to promote more on the site, making it even easier to find Japanese video clips. Some of the more popular Japan-related groups are Japan, Anime and Japan Lovers1, Japan China Korea, Pop Japan TV and Japanimation 日本, all of which have over fifty members. There are hundreds of other groups with fewer members (most with fewer than ten) and varying numbers of videos; I’ve created a Big On Japan group but we’ll just have to wait and see whether it gets any members…
A better way to find good Japanese video clips than going directly to YouTube is to let Gavin Purcell do all the hard work for you. His convenient TV In Japan site features LOADS of Japanese TV clips from YouTube, Daily Motion and Veoh, meticulously catalogued along with comments. It’s so good I’ll no doubt be stealing some clips from there and putting them on Big On Japan.
It’s all very well having a giggle at the wacky Japanese TV commercials available on the internet but for anyone with more than just a superficial interest in advertising Michael Fiorella’s Weblog Awards-nominated Japan Marketing News offers more in-depth analysis of selected commercials, as well as an overview of Japanese products and marketing in general.