July 26, 2007
- GMO Media Holdings
July 26, 2007
Press Release
GMO Media Holdings Inc.
Yaplog! Releases Huge New Range of Blog Skins
Tokyo – July 26, 2007 – GMO Media Holdings blog service, yaplog! has today released 150 new mobile blog skins (templates). This brings the total number of available mobile phone-use blog skins to 172, the largest range of blog skins in the industry (based on our research 07/2007).
About the Introduction of New Blog Skins
In a yaplog! survey, we asked users why they had chosen the yaplog! service. The response was overwhelmingly for our appealing blog skins. We wanted to bring this special yaplog! feature to our cell phone service*1 to give our users the opportunity to create an individual and fun blog. This is why we are releasing 150 new skins today. Now almost all of our PC blog skins are available for mobile phones and we have the widest selection of skins in the industry.
The new mobile blog skins have been categorized in the same way as PC blog skins, so selecting your favorite is now even easier.
Yaplog! aims to broaden the use of mobile blogs by giving mobile phone users a fun and creative blogging experience.
We will continue releasing new mobile phone blog skins and helping our users to create original blogging spaces.
About yaplog!
The GMO Media Holdings blog service yaplog! offers a wide range of appealing blog skins and pictographs and enjoys widespread popularity among women. Users can add text decorations and consult the yaplog! character yapeus for navigation that makes setting up a blog easy even for first time users.
About yaplog! Users
Yaplog! has around 159,000 active users*2 (Blog Fan, 03/2007), the popular blog service has received around 5.9 million unique users*3 and 113 million page views*4 (NetRatings, 03/2007). The majority of yaplog! users are young women between ages 20-35 that use the service as a space for exchanging information.
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The GMO Internet Group
The GMO Internet Group is a leading force in the Internet industry offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of Internet services in Japan. We hold top domestic market shares in domain registration, web hosting and payment processing and we provide a host of other services including e-commerce solutions, Internet advertising and online securities trading to individual and corporate customers. Striving to redefine the industry and foster a vibrant Internet culture, the GMO Internet Group is continuously working to inspire enthusiasm in our customers and put smiles on their faces.
GMO Media Holdings Inc.
Company Name | GMO Media Holdings Inc. http://www.gmo-mh.jp/ |
Address | Cerulean Tower, 26-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya ku, Tokyo, JAPAN |
CEO | Teruyuki Mori |
Business Description | Internet Media |
Capital | ￥337,500,000 |
GMO Internet Inc.
Company Name | GMO Internet Inc. http://www.gmo.jp/en (TSE First Section Code: 9449) |
Address | Cerulean Tower, 26-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya ku, Tokyo, JAPAN |
CEO | Masatoshi Kumagai |
Business Description | ■Internet Use Support (Infrastructure) ■Internet Advertising Support (Media) ■Internet Finance |
Capital | ￥9,651,750,000 |
*1 Application for the Petit or Pro (fees apply) is required to use mobile blog skins that include illustrations.
*2 Active User: A user that has updated their blog more than once in one month
*3 Unique User: The number of users that access a website within a specified period of time.
*4 Page Views: A method of measuring the number of times a website is accessed.