Niconico

Nico Nico Douga (Japaneseニコニコ 動画, Niko Niko Doga ) is a Japanese video hoster, which is headed by Niwango. His nicknames are Nico Nico and Nico - dō, where niko niko Japanese Ideophon ( Gitaigo ) " smile " is for and Doga stands for " film". Nico Nico Douga is the ninth most visited on the site in Japan. The site has 2007 Japanese Good Design Award and recognition in the Digital Communities category at Prix Ars Electronica 2008.

Features

The videos can sound are encoded with AAC since July 5, 2008 with a high resolution with H.264. The uploader of the video can even add comments to the video, subtitles, lyrics or corrections. The uploader may insert in his comments also Nico script commands, such as voting or quiz.

History

Nico Nico used initially as a video source Youtube. Due to the very high data traffic, however, there was a lockout by Youtube. After two weeks of decommissioning a separate video server has been established. On May 7, 2007, a mobile site is set up. Since 9 August 2007 phones from NTT DoCoMo and au are supported.

On 1 July 2008 Nico Nico Douga counted 7,900,000 ordinary and 204,000 premium users. Because 1% Chinese speaking users the site has been translated into that language. Since July 2008, there are Spanish and German versions, since April 2011, an English.

Niconico.com

On 18 April 2012, the company opened an English-language portal as a beta version called nico nico or shortly n ². First videos from YouTube, DailyMotion and Nico Nico Douga own videos and live streams This could be gesharet, then be put online. On 14 October 2011 the company went along with the U.S. Anime publisher Funimation the joint venture Funico one that, for both the parent company to license anime series to be streamed on Niconico.com and distributed by Funimation to volumes in North America.