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Internet Advertisement Business

The internet advertisement business now accounts for roughly half of CyberAgent's total sales. CyberAgent has been providing the service since 1998 and is now one of the largest market share holders in Japan. The company leads the market by leveraging its operational and technological advantages, including AI, to maximize advertising effectiveness for its clients.

Market

Internet Advertising as a Growth Industry

While total advertising spending in Japan has only increased moderately, internet advertising spending has risen rapidly in tandem with society's digital shift, surpassing TV advertising spending in 2019.
The internet advertising accounted for 47.6%* of total advertising spending in Japan in 2024, and we believe there is room for further growth when compared against overseas markets where it has already passed 50%.

  • * Internet share of total media ad spend in Japan: Dentsu Inc. 2024 Advertising Expenditures in Japan

Our Growth Continues to Outpace the Market

The widespread use of programmatic advertising* is one of the factors driving the rapid growth of internet advertising.
Our sales growth rate continues to outpace market growth as a result of efforts to improve our technological advantages and organizational structure to bolster operational capabilities.

  • * Programmatic Advertising: Programmatic advertising is a form of digital advertising that allows advertisers to bid per ad display or per click, and to change creatives, targeting, budget, and other parameters in real time.
  • *Growth transition: Growth rate based on setting 2012 as “100”
  • *Internet Ad Market: “Advertising Expenditures in Japan 2023” by Dentsu, Inc.

5-Year Results

Our expanding market share has led to steady performance, with sales growth rate for FY 2025 increasing by 6.1% compared to the previous period.
Over the past several years, we have actively invested in AI technologies essential for maximizing advertising effectiveness and in DX initiatives aimed at creating new advertising businesses. Recently, we have been implementing various efforts to improve profitability, including expanding AI utilization to operational efficiency.

Competitive Advantage

Point1Operation capability to realize high advertising effectiveness

Advertising effectiveness is becoming increasingly important as programmatic advertising becomes more prevalent. CyberAgent Group, including CyberAgent itself and its subsidiaries and organizations that specialize in advertising, has amassed a wealth of unique operational expertise and advertising data over the decades. By combining this with its technological advantages, including AI technology-driven advertising products and creative production studios equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, CyberAgent strives to maximize advertising effectiveness.

Point2Cutting-edge technology using AI and other technologies

AI Lab, our proprietary AI research and development organization established in 2016, where approximately 100 researchers are currently based, has risen to the rank of 4th in Japan and 49th globally* as a leader in AI research, all while striving to enhance collaboration between industry and academia.
Its research findings have been used to develop a wide variety of products. Among these, we are especially proud of the high advertising effectiveness of our independently developed "Kiwami Prediction Series" (ad products using generative AI), which allows us to deliver ad creatives that outperform existing ones.

  • * AI Research Ranking 2022 Thundermark Capital (Revised in February 2023)
Point3Adaptability to change in response to the external situation

In the rapidly changing internet advertising industry, we aim to achieve sustainable growth through flexible strategic planning.
Given the growing expectations for the future of DX business utilizing “proprietary data held by companies,” we were among the first to form partnerships with major Japanese companies in the finance, retail, mobility, and telecommunications industries, and are promoting the creation of new advertising business.
In recent years, we have expanded the use of AI beyond maximizing advertising effectiveness to improve operational efficiency and build new advertising methods in the era of generative AI, transforming structural changes into growth opportunities.

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