News: CScout Asia Tour 2009

CScout recently toured Korea and Japan meeting innovative media companies.

Sorry to have been off the grid for a bit. In the past few weeks we’ve been busy launching a few client trendpools, running a complex ideation session for a pharmaceutical client and moreover spending 2 weeks touring Asia searching for the next media trends.

During this second annual Asia Trend Tour, CScout took leading media executives to Seoul and Tokyo Asia. The focus was on discussing the changing media and marketing landscape with innovative companies and agencies in Asia’s digital hotspots.

Here are some of the most innovative companies we met with:
- The citizen journalism news portal OhmyNews
- Korea’s Nr. 2 online portal (Google is Nr. 3) Daum
- Telecommunications and media VC Softbank Media Ventures
- Blogging and advertising network Tatter media
- Japan’s innovative video portal Niwango/Dwango: NicoNico Douga
- Mobile novel publisher Starts Publishing
- Mobile gaming company DeNA

We look forward to keeping you up to date on these companies and the trends in the media and telecommunications space. Be sure to check the Mobile Trendpool for more in depth coverage.

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