Who'd have thought a business model could be built on "stickers!"
LINE Corporation’s revenue for the quarter was JPY 12.8 billion, up 348.9 percent over the same quarter of 2012 and 45.3 percent over the previous quarter.
Revenue sources included in-game purchases (53 percent), sticker purchases (27 percent), official accounts, and sponsored stickers, LINE says.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Stickers Make LINE Money
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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