Asahi Shimbun And KDDI Invests In Movie Review SNS, Filmarks / ITmedia

Asahi Shimbun Company and KDDI announced to invest 100 million yen in total in Tsumiki, a movie review SNS app, Filmarke operator. They aim to jointly develop entertainment SNS.

Filmarks was launched back in August 2012. 54,000 films are placed and 1.3 million reviews have been posted as of January 2014. The service allows users to post review or score of films they watched, to read others' review, to clip film titles they want to watch, or to search films by directors, actors, or awards. ...

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ITmedia 1/20/2014 [jp]

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• TV station companies like Fuji Media started investments in startups actively from last year. The trend is expanding to other traditional media like Asahi Shimbun which is one of the largest news paper publishers in Japan. 
• http://filmarks.com/