Intasect Communications, Inc. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Tan Yufeng; hereinafter referred to as “Intasect”), a promotion and inbound support company for Greater China, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as an excellent agency for 2017~ by Baidu, a search service with a dominant market share in the People’s Republic of China. Sales Award 2017~ of Baidu, a search service with an overwhelming market share in the People’s Republic of China.

■About the Outstanding Agency for 2017 ~Sales Award 2017~
This award is presented to the most outstanding companies based on a comprehensive evaluation of the number of search-linked listing advertisements and other types of advertisements operated and handled by Baidu Corporation, the Japanese subsidiary of Baidu. This award is presented to companies that are particularly outstanding based on a comprehensive evaluation of the number of search-linked listing ads and other types of ads operated and handled. This year’s award was presented to Baidu, Inc.
This year, four companies were selected out of approximately 50 authorized agencies in Japan that handle Baidu promotions, and we were one of the four companies selected to receive this award.

About our efforts to become an excellent agency -a hybrid system built over more than 15 years-
Baidu Promotion is characterized by the combination of ” Japan-based operations with careful reporting ” and ” China-based operations with local research , overseas advertising proposals, and actual operations by members in Beijing, Chengdu, Changchun, Shanghai, and other locations in China. Our Baidu Promotion is characterized by a hybrid system of “Japan-based operations that conduct careful reporting” and “China-based operations that conduct on-site research, overseas advertising proposals, and actual operations by members in Beijing, Chengdu, Changchun, Shanghai, and other locations in China. The hybrid approach of “Japan-based operation with careful reporting” and “China-based operation with members in Beijing, Chengdu, Changchun, Shanghai, and other locations in China conducting local research, proposing overseas advertising, and actual operation.

Overseas listings are “language advertising, It is essential to be familiar with local customs, lifestyles, and phrases. Therefore, the actual operation of overseas listings is based on “long-term and current staff” living in China. For this reason, we insist on the operation of actual overseas listings by “staff who have lived in China for a long period of time and still live there.

Our oldest Chinese office opened in 2002, and over the past 15 years, we have built up a system of cooperation with our Japanese and Chinese offices.
By taking full advantage of the unique characteristics of each location, we were able to provide Baidu promotions to many advertisers, both new and existing, in 2017.

■Future Initiatives
Of the foreign visitors to Japan in 2017, 7.35 million were from mainland China (from Number of Foreign Visitors to Japan [chronological table], Japan National Tourism Organization), About one in six of all visitors to Japan Mainland Chinese tourists account for about one in six of all visitors to Japan.

Using Baidu, the largest search engine in China, to help you attract visitors to your country, tourists visiting Japan on their way to/from Japan as well as tourists visiting Japan as well as consumers in mainland China, Baidu will facilitate promotional activities We will provide full support to advertisers both in China and in Japan so that they can smoothly conduct promotional activities not only for tourists visiting Japan on their own, but also for consumers in mainland China.

■Company Profile
Company Name : Intasect Communications, Inc.
Representative : Tan Yufeng, President
Address : B-M Bldg. 5F, 3-1 Kanda Ogawa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0052, Japan
Established : November 2000
Business : Overseas and inbound advertising business, China mobile payment services, Affiliate management agency, etc.
Capital ： 98.56 million yen
URL ： https://www.intasect.com

For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact:
Intasect Communications, Inc.
Overseas Advertising Division, C-Business Department
Tel: 03-3233-3525 (Business hours: 9:00 – 18:00 weekdays)
E-mail: ec-sales@intasect.co.jp