Expansion of the distribution information segment and service lineup

「The Group currently operates the news distribution apps Gunosy and au Service Today, Game8 Co., Ltd., which operates game strategy media in Japan and overseas, and G Holdings Co., Ltd., which develops smartphone games under IP licenses. It is also pursuing business development to expand new revenue opportunities, including its Store and Commerce business and IR Hub, a cloud-based disclosure support service.」

「The Group currently has a stable advertising revenue base through its operation of the flagship news distribution apps Gunosy and au Service Today, as well as Game8 Co., Ltd. (Game8), which operates game strategy media such as game8.jp. It is also pursuing business development to expand new revenue opportunities, including its Store and Commerce business (the SC business) and IR Hub, a cloud-based disclosure support service.」

「In its new businesses, the Group advanced the expansion of sales of Udekiki, a generative AI service specializing in business support and powered by ChatGPT. During the third quarter, it released multiple features」

「In its new businesses, the Group advanced the full-scale rollout of Udekiki, a generative AI service specializing in business support and powered by ChatGPT. It will continue supporting companies facing challenges in applying LLMs to practical business operations. The Group also released MOOD PAIRING BATH awai, a bath additive from the mood-pairing brand YOU IN, with the aim of providing mood-pairing experiences in a variety of settings.」

「The Group currently operates Gunosy, News Pass, au Service Today and game8.jp, a comprehensive game strategy information media platform, and is working to attract more users, increase advertising revenue and build new revenue streams.」

「The Group currently operates Gunosy, News Pass, au Service Today and LUCRA, as well as game8.jp, a comprehensive game strategy information media platform, while expanding the scope of distributed information through the production and distribution of video and audio content and the distribution of coupon information」

「During the third quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group entered into an official partnership agreement with Urawa Reds and newly opened the Urawa Reds Channel on Gunosy and News Pass.」

「Gunosy aims to become a news media platform for a new era that serves as social infrastructure. During the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group renewed the app and worked to enhance product value by optimizing the delivery of socially valuable information that is useful to know and personally valuable information that users want to know. It also refreshed its brand guidelines, including changing the airplane motif, which represents delivering information, into an icon that delivers a wide variety of information without being bound by format.」

「As a new collaboration with KDDI Corporation, the Group relaunched au Service Today and began operating it thereafter, steadily increasing its active user base.」

「The Group worked on development toward the relaunch of au Service Today.」

「During the second quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group identified strengthening medium- to long-term profitability in its existing media business as its top priority and worked to enhance media value, including by focusing on increasing advertising unit prices through improvements to advertising algorithms and beginning a major renewal of the Gunosy app, including the expansion of its radio section.」

「During the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group identified strengthening medium- to long-term profitability in its existing media business as its top priority and focused on initiatives to enhance media value, including a substantial reduction in the exposure of articles containing sensational wording disproportionate to their content or excessive skin exposure that did not meet the company's quality standards, stricter advertising reviews and the renewal of the LUCRA app. In its new businesses, the Group invested in growth opportunities inside and outside the company, including an additional investment in GaragePreneurs Internet Pvt. Ltd., which provides cashless payment and small-scale digital lending services for young people in India, and testing an e-commerce business through Otokuru.」

「The Group currently operates Gunosy, News Pass, LUCRA and Game8, a comprehensive game strategy information media platform, while also expanding the scope of distributed information through the production and distribution of video content and the distribution of coupon information. It is working to attract more users, increase advertising revenue and build new revenue streams.」

「The Group rolled out new content and initiatives, including expanded coupons available across its apps and the launch of Gunosy's original content Trend Super Forecast, as well as new content in the video segment.」

「During the second quarter of the current fiscal year, continuing from the first quarter, the Group rolled out new content and initiatives, including expanded coupons available across its apps, the launch of the reality dating show 3LDK, and the start of collaboration with AbemaTV and TBS NEWS, as well as new content in the video segment.」

「During the first quarter of the current fiscal year, to increase active users of its existing services, the Group rolled out new content and initiatives, including a variety of collaboration programs on the Gunosy Q live video service and free coupons available across the four apps Gunosy, News Pass, LUCRA and Otokuru.」

「The Group also released Gunospo, specializing in sports news distribution, and Otokuru, specializing in coupon information distribution, as specialized apps based on Gunosy, promoting the diversification of information distribution under the Gunosy brand.」

「During the third quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group began distributing Otokuru, a vertical app specializing in coupon information distribution and the second vertical app spun out of Gunosy.」

「During the second quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group began early access distribution of the Android version of Gunospo, a vertical app specializing in sports news distribution and the first vertical app spun out of Gunosy.」

「Against this backdrop, during the second quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group began monetizing LUCRA, an information curation service for women launched in the previous fiscal year, for which the Group began providing services in the first quarter under its partnership with KDDI Corporation.」

「Against this backdrop, during the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group entered into a partnership with KDDI Corporation to operate LUCRA, an information curation service for women launched in the previous fiscal year.」

「The company released services that broadened the scope of distributed information, including LUCRA, an information curation service for women, and Bazzary, a price-comparison application, and is working to attract more users, increase advertising revenue and expand new revenue streams. It will continue developing services that serve as gateways to information on smartphones.」

「During the third quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group actively rolled out promotional initiatives, including television commercials, for News Pass, its new information curation service launched in the first quarter under its partnership with KDDI Corporation.」

「Against this backdrop, during the second quarter of the current fiscal year, the Group began monetizing News Pass, its new information curation service launched in the first quarter under its partnership with KDDI Corporation.」

「The operating environment surrounding the Group included rapid smartphone adoption in Japan, with the number of smartphone subscriptions reaching 72.37 million as of the end of September 2015, an increase of 9.89 million from a year earlier, according to MM Research Institute Ltd. Advertising expenditure in 2015 also continued to grow for the fourth consecutive year, reaching ¥6.171 trillion. Internet advertising expenditure in particular rose to ¥1.1594 trillion, or 110.2% of the previous year's level, driving overall growth in advertising expenditure, according to Dentsu Inc.」

「Going forward, we will expand the service lineup in stages」