Nico Nico Douga
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| Video hosting, video streaming | |
| languages | Japanese , Chinese ( traditional ), English |
| operator | Niwango |
| editorial staff | Niwango |
| On-line | December 12, 2006 |
| http://nicovideo.jp/ | |
Nico Nico Douga ( Japanese ニ コ ニ コ 動画 , Niko Niko Dōga ) is a Japanese video portal and livestream provider, which is managed by Niwango . His nicknames are Nico Nico and Nico-dō , where nikoniko is the Japanese ideophone ( Gitaigo ) for "smile" and dōga stands for "film". Nico Nico Douga is the ninth most visited website in Japan. The site won the Japanese Good Design Award in 2007 and was recognized in the Digital Communities category at the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica .
features
Users can upload, watch and distribute videos. Unlike on other video sites, comments are shown directly in the videos. Whoever writes a comment can also determine when, where and how it is displayed. This makes it easier to fix comments on certain points in a video. Niconico's atmosphere is like the 2channel and Futaba channels and many popular videos are otaku- influenced, such as anime , computer games, Odorite and J-Pop . In addition to the uploader, videos can also be changed by other users. Each video can have up to 10 tags, up to 5 of which are defined by the uploader and blocked for editing.
Since July 5th, 2008, the videos can be encoded with high resolution with H.264 and the sound with AAC . The uploader of a video can insert comments into the video himself, for subtitles, song texts or corrections. The uploader can also insert Nicoscript commands in his comments , such as votes or quizzes.
history
Nico Nico initially used YouTube as a video source . Due to the very high data traffic, however, YouTube was blocked. After being out of service for two weeks, a dedicated video server was set up. On May 7, 2007, a website for cell phones was launched. Since August 9, 2007, mobile phones have also been supported by NTT DoCoMo .
On July 1, 2008, Nico Nico Douga had 7,900,000 regular and 204,000 premium users. Because of 1% Chinese speaking users, the website was also translated into that language. Spanish and German versions have been available since July 2008, and an English version since April 2011.
Niconico.com
On April 18, 2012, the company opened an English-language portal as a beta version called niconico or n² for short . With this, videos from YouTube , Dailymotion and Nico Nico Douga could first be shared, then own videos and live streams could be put online. On 14 October 2011, the company went along with the US anime publisher Funimation the joint venture Funico one that anime series to license for both the parent company, which will then be streamed to Niconico.com and sold by Funimation to volumes in North America .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ nicovideo.jp - Traffic Details from Alexa. In: Alexa. Retrieved July 2, 2008 .
- ↑ Good Design Award. Archived from the original on October 4, 2008 ; Retrieved July 2, 2008 (Japanese).
- ^ History of the Prix Ars Electronica / 2008. Ars Electronica, archived from the original on August 26, 2009 ; Retrieved January 13, 2008 .
- ↑ Japan's Nico Nico Douga Video Site Starts English Beta. Anime News Network , April 20, 2011, accessed April 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Japan's Nico Nico Douga Video Site Starts English Beta. In: Anime News Network. April 20, 2011, accessed April 7, 2012 .
- ↑ Funimation, Nico Nico to Jointly License anime. In: Anime News Network. October 14, 2011, accessed April 7, 2012 .