japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by goo Research into internet television, which is basically a television that instead of (or is it “along with”?) getting a signal over a cable or radio waves, it uses the internet to obtain its content.
Demographics
Between the 10th and 12th of January 2012 1,093 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.2% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.4% in their fifties, and 12.2% aged sixty or older.
I’m not really very clear myself on the Unique Selling Point of internet TV, so I can’t say I’ve got any interest. TV should be passive; anything that requires more than a couple of clicks on a remote control is better done on a real computer! Read the rest of this entry »
I recently got this interesting set of statistics on home appliance market share, from a survey conducted by GfK Marketing Service Japan. The data was collected from a database called ACSISS-E that is updated daily based on sales in a representative sample of Japanese electrical superstores.
The report named the top three brands in each of 22 categories of home appliance. I will try to find their data on audio-visual equipment, mobile phones, etc to report on later in the week.
Note that according to a survey last month, electrical superstores are probably the most popular place to shop for electrical items, not the internet as one might think.
Also note that most of the brands below are premium ones; Zojirushi are about middle of the road, and Tiger are cheap. Panasonic have the best showing, but they are usually close to the most expensive in each category. Read the rest of this entry »
The winners of the 2012 New Year Postcard lottery for the Year of the Dragon (my year!) have been announced, and the winning numbers and prizes are as follows. The number to check is the six digit number at the bottom right of the card. Note that some cards do not actually have numbers, which means they are not eligible.
First prize: 030625
Choose any one from a 40 inch Sharp Aquos LED backlit LCD televison, a JTB holiday, either three nights in Shanghai or Honolulu, 2 nights in Seoul, Sapporo, Naha or Tokyo for two, or one night in one of 52 domestic hot springs resorts plus 20,000 yen’s worth of gift vouchers, Toshiba dynabook notebook plus Fujifilm FinePix JX800 digital camera plus Canon PIXUS MG4130 printer, Sharp Healthio microwave oven AX-MX2-R and Panasonic Home Bakery SD-BH104 and Zoujirishi IH rice cooker NP-NC10-TC, or 20,000 points worth of office goods from a Business Choice catalogue.
Most of the items are pretty much the same as last year.
Second prize: 071658, 153787, or 675457
Choose any one from a Sharp Plasma Buster combined humidifier and air purifier KC-A50-W, Canon IXY 410F SL digital camera plus Green House digital photo frame GHV-DF7DW plus a 4GB SD card, an Xbox360 4GB plus Kinect, a day return trip to one of 119 domestic hotels, or a Tobu non-puncturing tyre-equipped folding bicycle HB-160SUS-NT.
Third prize: last four digits 2511
Choose any one food item from 38 different ones on offer, from Godiva cookies to 125 grammes of dried shiitake mushrooms.
Fourth prize: last two digits 27 or 44
Otoshidama stamp set – a fifty yen and an eighty yen stamp, pictured above.
If you have matched any of these, go to your nearest post office before the 23th of July 2012 and either collect the stamps while you wait, or apply for any of the bigger prizes. The full prize line-up can be seen here. How did you get on? I’ll check mine later.
Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
Wifey tells me that the main thing she wanted me to stop when we were dating was farting…
It’s interesting that it appears that women have more complaints, and complain more about the same things, regarding their boyfriends. Is spitting really that common on dates that it gets to be the fourth most popular issue? Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
I quite regularly talk to myself in the office and the corridors, but I either don’t care or just do a cough to cover it up. I often snore and sometimes drool on trains, but what the heck, I’m asleep so I don’t care! Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, was into electronic books and magazines, the second time this regular survey has been conducted.
Demographics
Between the 10th and 13th of January 2011 1,087 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, and 27.6% aged fifty or older.
The article points out that since a lot of people who don’t want to read electronic books pointed out that it was difficult to read from a screen, perhaps the awareness of electronic paper is very low.
In recent related news, Rakuten have announced that they have bought Kobo, a makers of ebook readers, and will be bringing a low-cost reader to market. Up to now they have been offering Panasonic’s catchily-named reader, the UT-PB1, as their platform, but perhaps it has not been selling too well?
My own informal research (ie, looking around on the train) tells me that commuters still prefer paper newspapers or books. I’ve seen one person once with an iPad loaded with the day’s newspaper (just a PDF scan, basically), but when it comes to mobile phones, everyone is either emailing, gaming, or reading SNSes. I’ve only once seen a Kindle. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey by goo Research looking at mobile phone manners, but sadly only presenting a very small subset of the results.
Demographics
Between the 19th and 22nd of December 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.4% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.4% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.5% in their fifties, and 11.% aged sixty or older.
When I had a dumb phone I was forever using it while walking, but since getting a smartphone the combination of a smaller font, the inability to type blind, and my usual mail program’s over-sensitivity to motion causing the screen to bounce at the slightest provocation means that I just cannot use it on the move at all! Read the rest of this entry »
I hear a lot of good things about mirrorless SLR cameras as an entry point into the world of keen amateur photographer, so this survey from goo Research into the topic gives a good overview of why people are buying or wanting to buy them.
Demographics
Between the 14th and 18th of October 2011 1,083 members of the goo Research monitor group aged twenty or older completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.1% of the sample were male, 19.9% in their twenties, 20.3% in their thirties, 20.1% in their forties, 19.5% in their fifties, and 20.1% aged sixty or older.
I used to be quite keen on getting one, as my point and shoot is getting a bit dented, but now I’ve got my smartphone with a passable camera and instant connectivity, my compact camera is now gathering dust, and a mirrorless SLR just feels like too much bother! Read the rest of this entry »
goo Research recently conducted their second regular survey into internet advertising.
Demographics
Between the 19th and 22nd of December 2011 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.8% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 17.8% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, and 28.1% aged fifty or older.
I don’t click on many adverts – I run a blocker at home, and at work I turn off the display of images and disable flash as I find a lot of advertising just far too ugly. If I click on an advertisement it will be either a Google text ad or a specific affiliate link where I want to share some benefit with the person who introduced me to the item or service I am purchasing. Read the rest of this entry »
Perhaps to recover from meeting the people in the last survey, this survey from goo Ranking looking at the features of healing-type women will give you some hints from how to recover from meeting the people in the previous survey! This “healing character” is… well, just read the survey and you’ll learn!
Demographics
Between the 18th and 20th of October 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.3% of the sample were male, 11.2% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 25.7% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, 11.5% in their fifties, and 9.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. I think both men and women were asked this question.
For me, I find that a quiet smile and long straight black hair does the trick for me, a sort of Japanese Mona Lisa, perhaps. I was going to get a photo off Flickr to show you, but searching for the keyword only gives me photos of capybara, so let’s instead have a healing woman and a healing alpaca instead.
japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by goo Research into internet television, which is basically a television that instead of (or is it “along with”?) getting a signal over a cable or radio waves, it uses the internet to obtain its content.
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