Acquiring leading content and differentiating from competitors
First written in FY2016. 13 of 25 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2018-Q2. Latest entry: 2026-11-13.
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- FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「Our Group is pursuing the acquisition of attractive intellectual property (IP) and artists across a broad range of fields, from major production companies and independent artists to sports, anime and various events. By offering solutions such as Fanpla Kit, our proprietary fan club platform service, we provide an environment in which artists themselves can easily and sophisticatedly build and manage fan communities, expanding our market share while meeting artists' diversifying needs.」
Explicitly expands the acquisition target beyond music to sports, anime and events, and identifies artist-led fan community building through Fanpla Kit as a means of strengthening competitiveness. - 2026-05-15AdvancedEarnings presentation
「2.5次元系アーティストやお笑い芸人案件等、Fan+kitを活用した営業強化によってジャンルの幅を超えて新規案件を獲得。」
Fan+kitを活用した営業対象を従来の主要ジャンル以外にも広げ、新規コンテンツの獲得を進めている。 - FY2026-H1RestatedAnnual report
「During the interim consolidated accounting period, paid membership at fan clubs and fan sites increased significantly year on year, and the business foundation expanded steadily as a result of contributions from major artists, the acquisition of new artists and stronger coordination with in-person initiatives such as advance ticket applications and members-only events.」
Continues to expand the content base by acquiring major and new artists and linking it with live events and other in-person initiatives. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「While continuing to acquire new artists, we implemented initiatives linked to successful live performances and concerts, including advance ticket sales, and benefited from major artists acquired and launched in the previous fiscal year.」
Links the ability to acquire new and major artists and implement live-event initiatives to expansion of the business base. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「During the fiscal year, we were able to significantly increase the number of paid members at the fan clubs and fan sites that form the foundation of the business by acquiring major artists through the strengthened sales structure, enhancing content and implementing initiatives linked to strong live events and concerts, including advance ticket sales.」
Describes the acquisition of major artists as a specific achievement and is expanding the membership base through content acquisition. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「We continued to acquire new artists, centred on the fan-club platform “Fanpla Kit,” and, in tandem with the recovery in live events and concerts, steadily increased membership at the fan clubs and fan sites that form the foundation of the business through advance ticket applications for members and members-only live events.」
Continues to acquire new artists through Fanpla Kit and enhance the value of fan clubs through tickets, exclusive live events and other offerings. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「We recognize that, to maintain our Group's competitive advantage, the challenges are to increase site awareness by acquiring high-profile content unavailable from competitors, differentiate site content, and respond quickly to new content services and technologies for smartphones.」
Reaffirms the acquisition of high-profile content, increased awareness, site differentiation and rapid response to new services and technologies as challenges for maintaining competitive advantage. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「The ¥551 million acquisition of intangible fixed assets mainly represents expenditure on development projects to acquire new artists.」
Describes ¥551 million of expenditure on development projects to acquire new artists, specifying measures to acquire content and artists. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「The ¥551 million acquisition of intangible fixed assets mainly represents expenditure on development projects to acquire new artists.」
Describes ¥551 million of expenditure on development projects to acquire new artists, specifying measures to acquire content and artists. - FY2022RestatedAnnual report
「We recognize that, to maintain our Group's competitive advantage, the challenges are to increase site awareness by acquiring high-profile content unavailable from competitors, differentiate site content, and respond quickly to new content services and technologies for smartphones.」
Reaffirms the acquisition of high-profile content, increased awareness, site differentiation and rapid response to new services and technologies as challenges for maintaining competitive advantage. - FY2021-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「In addition, we began providing Fanpla Kit as a service that enables any artist, regardless of size, to launch a fan club, and continued to develop the fan club platform and strengthen our ability to acquire new artists.」
Began providing Fanpla Kit, establishing a mechanism that enables artists of any size to launch fan clubs, and specifically strengthening the ability to acquire new artists. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「We recognize that, to maintain our Group's competitive advantage, the challenges are to increase site awareness by acquiring high-profile content unavailable from competitors, differentiate site content, and respond quickly to new content services and technologies for smartphones.」
Continues to identify the acquisition of high-profile content, increased awareness, site differentiation and rapid response to new technologies as challenges for maintaining competitive advantage. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In addition, we implemented measures to maintain and increase membership on existing sites and increase average spend per member by introducing electronic tickets and a ticket trading service on fan club sites and renewing the sites.」
Reaffirms the enhancement of existing fan club sites through electronic tickets, ticket trading and site renewals. - FY2020-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「In addition, we implemented measures to maintain and increase membership on existing sites and increase average spend per member by introducing electronic tickets and a ticket trading service on fan club sites and renewing the sites.」
In addition to introducing electronic tickets and ticket trading on existing fan club sites, site renewals were implemented as a measure. - FY2020-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「In addition, we implemented measures to maintain membership and increase average spend per member by introducing electronic tickets and a ticket trading service on fan club sites, offering advance ticket sales to members and renewing existing sites.」
Specifically implemented electronic ticket and ticket trading services on existing fan club sites, advance ticket sales for members and site renewals. - FY2019-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「For existing fan club sites, we implemented measures to maintain membership and increase average spend per member by introducing electronic tickets, a ticket trading service, fan mail and web radio features.」
Specifically describes the introduction of electronic tickets, ticket trading, fan mail and web radio features on existing fan club sites, expanding measures to enhance the sites' value. - FY2019-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「In addition, for existing fan club sites, we introduced new user-focused content, including fan mail and web radio features, implementing measures to maintain membership and increase average spend per member, while also diversifying the fan club business through measures such as introducing annual membership fees.」
Describes specific measures to diversify the fan club business, including introducing new content on existing sites and annual membership fees. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「In the mobile content distribution business, competition and the market environment are expected to become increasingly challenging. We recognise that, to maintain our competitive advantage, our challenges are to increase site awareness by acquiring leading content unavailable from other companies, differentiate site content and respond rapidly to new content services and technologies for smartphones.」
We have reaffirmed that acquiring leading content, increasing site awareness and differentiation, and responding rapidly to new technologies are challenges in maintaining our competitive advantage. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「At existing fan-club sites as well, we implemented fan-mail and web-radio functions and introduced measures to increase site value and differentiation, maintain membership and raise average revenue per member.」
The disclosure continues to describe increasing site value and differentiation by implementing fan-mail and web-radio functions. - FY2018-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「At existing fan-club sites as well, we strengthened the business foundation by implementing fan-mail and web-radio functions and increasing the sites’ value through differentiation from other companies.」
The disclosure states that fan-mail and web-radio functions were implemented at existing fan-club sites, providing concrete measures to differentiate and increase their value. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「In response, we gather information broadly from various media and industry trends, while drawing on our experience in the music industry to identify content likely to become popular in the future.」
We continue to pursue a policy of identifying leading content at an early stage and acquiring it by leveraging our industry network. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「With paid members serving as the foundation of the business, we continued to identify and acquire content expected to become popular at an early stage, launch new sites for smartphones and distribute content, thereby working to increase the number of members.」
The company states that it continues to identify and acquire at an early stage content expected to become popular, reaffirming its established content acquisition policy. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「We recognise that, to maintain our competitive advantage, our challenges are to increase site awareness by acquiring leading content unavailable from other companies, differentiate site content and respond rapidly to new content services and technologies for smartphones.」
The company identifies the acquisition of leading content, site differentiation and rapid response to new services and technologies.