Niconico - Wikipedia. This article needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.(December 2. Niconico(ニコニコ,Nikoniko, lit. Smile"[2]), formerly known as Nico Nico Douga(ニコニコ動画,Niko Niko Dōga, lit.

Smiley Smiley Video") or "Nico- dō" for short, is a video sharing website in Japan. Niconico" or "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling. As of September 2. Niconico is the eighth most visited website in Japan.[3] The site won the Japanese Good Design Award in 2. Honorary Mention of the Digital Communities category at Prix Ars Electronica 2. Features[edit]Users can upload, view and share video clips.

Unlike other video sharing sites, however, comments are overlaid directly onto the video, synced to a specific playback time. Watch Roadkill Online. This allows comments to respond directly to events occurring in the video, in sync with the viewer—creating a sense of a shared watching experience. Together with Hiroyuki Nishimura serving as director at Niwango until February 2. Niconico's atmosphere and cultural context is close to 2channel's or Futaba Channel's, and many popular videos have otaku tastes, such as anime, computer games and pop music.

Niconico offers tagging of videos. Tags may be edited by any user, not just the uploader. Each video may have up to eleven tags, of which up to five may be optionally locked by the uploader, but all others may be edited by any user. Frequently these tags are used not only as categorization, but also as critical commentary, satire, or other humor related to the video's content. The site is also known for its MAD videos and its medleys of popular songs on the website, most notably Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga.

Certain original net animations have been distributed on the website, such as Candy Boy, Tentai Senshi Sunred and Penguin Musume Heart.[7]Other features include: High video quality: Niconico encourages users to pre- encode their videos in a format suitable for unmodified distribution. As of July 5, 2. 00. H. 2. 64 video and AAC audio is supported for both free and premium users. Mylist: Each user may create "mylists", which function similarly to a list of bookmarks. All users can create up to 2. Daily mylist activity is used to compute the default ranking view, although one may also sort by view or comment count. Mylists may be optionally made public and linked to; for example, to make a list of one's own works.

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Uploader comments: The uploader of a video may attach permanent comments to the video. These are often used for such things as subtitles, lyrics, or corrections. Nicoscript: By using special commands in the uploader comments, the uploader can add special effects to the video, including voting, automatic transfer to another video, quiz scoring, and other features. History[edit]. Nobuo Kawakami, the founder and CEO of Niconico. The first version of Niconico used You. Tube as a video source.

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However, as the site became more popular, so much traffic was transferred from You. Tube that You. Tube blocked access from Niconico.

Consequently, Niconico was forced to shut down the service but two weeks later it commenced its service with its own video server. On May 7, 2. 00. 7, a Niconico for mobile phone users was announced. Since August 9, 2. Nico Nico Douga (RC) Mobile" has serviced mobile phones of NTT Do. Co. Mo and au.[8]As of October 3. Niconico has over 2.

Due to the limited server capacity, Niwango limits the number of free users who can access the website at peak times (7 p. The website is written in Japanese and the majority of the site traffic is from Japan, although approximately four percent is from outside Japan, notably one percent from Taiwan.[1. A Taiwanese version of the site was launched on October 1. In July 2. 00. 8, the website was localized to German and Spanish.[1.

The Taiwanese localization was significantly improved in the process. An English- language version was added on October 1.

Niconico. com website, featuring a new player and translation tools allowing users to translate video descriptions into English or Chinese.[1. On April 2. 7, 2. Nico Nico Douga announced it would be renaming itself as Niconico, as well as introducing a new "Zero" version of the website which improves video resolution, along with various other upgrades.[1.

Niconico. com[edit]In 2. English was in the works,[1. April 2. 01. 1, an English language beta website, Niconico, was launched. This site allowed users to share videos from You. Tube, Daily. Motion and Niconico and view them in Niconico's player, which includes the commenting system, as well as add English tags to them.[1. Improvements later made to the site allowed users to upload their own videos, with subscribed users able to host livestreams. The site also simulcast select anime titles from June 2.

On October 1. 4, 2. Niconico announced a partnership with Funimation Entertainment to form Funico, to handle licensing of anime properties for streaming and home video.[1.

With the implementation of English language features into Nicovideo. Niconico. com was retired on November 1. Watch Boiling Pot Download on this page.

Japanese website.[1. Business aspects[edit]Incomes[edit]The main income of Niconico is divided into three parts: Premium- Membership (Pay- membership), Advertisement, and Nico Nico Ichiba (Affiliate).[1. Premium- Membership. Registration is needed to watch videos at Niconico. There are two types of registered accounts, Free membership and Premium- membership. The Premium- membership fee is 5. As of January 2, 2.

They accept three forms of payment: credit cards, Web. Money vouchers and Pay. Pal since February 2.

Advertisement. Niconico uses Google Ads and other web advertisements. On May 8, 2. 00. 8, Dwango announced partnership with Yahoo! Japan, and plans to adopt search- related ads and other Yahoo- related services.

Nico Nico Ichiba (Affiliate)Nico Nico Ichiba is a unique advertisement system in which users can place banners freely in each video page. Both video uploader and video viewer can choose items which they want to place, and can place and delete banners in the advertisement area.

Users also can know how many times each banner has been clicked and how many items have been bought. Ranking info of numbers of items bought through Nico Nico Ichiba is also officially provided.

Items available are from Amazon. Yahoo Shopping, and Dwango mobile service.

Premium accounts and the affiliate system were, in the past, only available to Japanese users. Non- Japanese users can now apply for a premium membership on the Japanese site with international JCB cards, Web. Money vouchers only and Pay. Pal, language barrier notwithstanding.

Also, as of July 2. Nico Nico Ichiba has been extended to the Taiwanese website. Financial condition[edit]In the fiscal year from Q4 2.

Q3 2. 01. 1, Niconico has had a gross income of approximately 1. US$1. 39. 1 million as of November 1. US$8. 6 million) operating profit. On October 3. 0, 2.

Dwango and the JASRAC, Japanese copyright holders' society agreed to form a comprehensive partnership and Dwango will pay two percent of its earnings to JASRAC as copyright royalties.[2. See also[edit]References[edit]^"Nicovideo. Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved March 1.

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