Kirk here with news about Kumamoto City’s YouTube channel, which was discussed recently in the City Assembly. This is the channel’s most popular video with 397,341 views. That’s pretty good, I guess, but the price tag was ¥11,990,000, which works out to about 30 yen per view and is more than a typical person earns for a full year of work. The member of the council who brought up the topic of the channel seemed to be concerned that the city wasn’t promoting their videos effectively. Quite a few videos have fewer than 30 views each.
In regard to the city’s promotional activities, I can testify that no one from the city asked Kumamoto International to share any of their videos on our wildly popular Facebook page. ;)
P.S. Here’s my source:
