June 7, 2026

About

The world's cutting-edge marketing, in Tokyo.

ADVERTISE TOKYO is a free bilingual web media for every marketer in Japan. Each morning, we translate the world's cutting-edge marketing news into Japanese, read it through a Tokyo perspective, and spotlight Japanese marketing, ad-tech and AI companies alongside the global feed. No paywall, no signup, no agency relationship required — just the global marketing conversation, made available in Tokyo, in both languages, every morning.

OUR PROMISE

Free for every marketer in Japan.

Most premium marketing intelligence in Japan sits behind a paywall, a corporate subscription, or an agency relationship. ADVERTISE TOKYO doesn't. Every morning, the world's cutting-edge marketing news gets translated into Japanese and posted here — free, bilingual, no signup required. A young creative at a JTC, a solo growth marketer at a Roppongi startup, a media planner at 電通 or 博報堂, a brand manager at an FMCG — same access, same morning, same depth.

OUR LENS

Tokyo, reading the world.

Translation alone doesn't bridge the gap. The world's marketing is written for US holdcos, European brands, and Silicon Valley audiences. ADVERTISE TOKYO adds the Tokyo layer machine translation can't: which campaigns fit a Japanese brief, which platforms actually serve Japan, which assumptions about audience or media don't translate, and which Japanese alternatives already solve the problem. Every entry gets the same four questions: what it actually is, who it's for, how it differs from the Japan play today, and the Tokyo Take.

OUR SPOTLIGHT

Japan's own marketing, ad-tech, and AI — covered alongside.

The global feed is half the story. Japan has its own world-class marketing, ad-tech, and AI players — from 電通・博報堂 to サイバーエージェント, from PLAUD to Sakana AI, from Mercari's experimental ad units to LINEヤフー's identity stack. ADVERTISE TOKYO covers them in the same depth and on the same morning. If your company is shipping something Japanese marketers should know about — a launched product, a new agency capability, a research drop — we'd like to hear from you. Use the Contact section below.

CONTACT

Get your company in the feed.

Launched a product, opened a new agency capability, dropped a research report, added an AI feature? If Japanese marketers should know about it, get in touch with the editorial desk. We'll cover it with the same depth and on the same morning as the global feed. Coverage is free and editorially judged.

Email the editorial desk

editorial@advertise-tokyo.com

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Affiliate Disclosure

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ADVERTISE TOKYO participates in the Amazon Associates Program, partner / referral programs run by individual marketing-technology vendors, and Japanese affiliate networks (ASPs). When a story or directory entry includes a button marked PR / Partner / Amazon, the link is an affiliate link: clicking through and signing up may earn ADVERTISE TOKYO a commission, at no additional cost to you. Affiliate relationships do not determine editorial coverage, do not change the four structured fields a story is evaluated on (tagline / who & for what / vs. Japan play / Tokyo Take), and do not soften the Tokyo Take when the honest answer is 'wait six months'.

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