{"id":1252,"date":"2025-03-13T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:36:34","slug":"%e3%80%90%e3%83%8b%e3%83%a5%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b9%e3%82%a2%e3%83%97%e3%83%aa%e4%ba%8b%e6%a5%ad%e8%80%85%e6%a7%98%e3%80%91%ef%bc%9a%e5%ba%83%e5%91%8a%e3%83%97%e3%83%ad%e3%83%80%e3%82%af%e3%83%88%e3%81%ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/en\/newscolumn\/1252\/","title":{"rendered":"[News App Provider] Strengthening Ad Product Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Background: What Needed to Be Achieved?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Our client, whose main business is a smartphone news app, was facing challenges in three areas of their advertising product \u2014 <b>skills, staffing, and sales<\/b> \u2014 the pillar of their revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Their request to SOKAI was twofold: <b>supply talent capable of covering all three challenge areas, and spread that knowledge across their in-house divisions<\/b>. To solve these challenges, SOKAI assembled a team of specialists.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Our Proposal to Accelerate the Business<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1161\" src=\"https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_271384040-1024x640.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_271384040-1024x640.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_271384040-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_271384040-768x480.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_271384040-1536x960.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_271384040-2048x1280.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First, we defined the goal to achieve: <b>growing advertiser numbers and ad spend<\/b>, built on creating adoption cases and success stories for the client&#8217;s ad product and expanding awareness among their clients.<\/p>\n<p>To get there, SOKAI further clarified the <b>three challenges<\/b> the client was facing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skills\n<ul>\n<li>Ad product reporting was not being performed properly due to gaps in KPI understanding<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient implementation support for feed integration and proper segmentation tagging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Staffing\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of resources left new-adoption proposals and improvement proposals insufficient<\/li>\n<li>Not enough staff to run improvement operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sales\n<ul>\n<li>The product needed more compelling positioning<\/li>\n<li>Proposals needed to be grounded in each client&#8217;s business model, KPIs, and site structure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on these hypotheses, SOKAI proposed <b>a strengthened, phase-by-phase roadmap for expanding the ad product<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2><b>The Results<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1160\" src=\"https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_112791598-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_112791598-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_112791598-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_112791598-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_112791598-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sokai.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AdobeStock_112791598-2048x1367.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The roadmap SOKAI designed was divided into <b>three phases<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Phase 1 built the foundation of the marketing strategy by <b>increasing improvement and adoption case studies<\/b>. Phase 2 strengthened <b>new-adoption proposals to clients and collaboration with other divisions<\/b>, and Phase 3 <b>expands advertiser numbers and ad spend<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>This has led to step-by-step business growth.<\/p>\n<p>Under the banner of <b>&#8220;Crossing the Sea to Create a New Era,&#8221;<\/b> SOKAI Inc. supports the redefinition of business foundations on a global scale, powered by advanced technology.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to solve your company&#8217;s challenges and drive <b>drastic digital transformation<\/b>, please contact us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: What Needed to Be Achieved? 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