Prime Video Japan has a brand new Nation Supervisor within the form of Keisuke Oishi.
Efficient right now, the previous Sony Corp exec will tackle the put up after rising by way of the ranks over ten years at Amazon. Oishi will report back to Gaurav Gandhi, Vice President of Prime Video for Asia Pacific, Center East and Africa.
He replaces Takashi Kodama, who left Prime Video late final yr to steer Amutus Company, the guardian of Japanese digital manga writer Mecha Comedian, based on Kodama’s LinkedIn posts. We’ve reached out to Amazon for readability.
Media Companions Asia final yr pegged Prime Video as Japan’s largest streamer by subscribers, making Oishi’s new position a significant one for the Amazon enterprise. He’ll oversee a enterprise spanning SVOD, add-on subscriptions, TVOD and stay sports activities. Amazon mentioned he would “lead efforts to solidify its place because the first-choice leisure vacation spot for patrons in Japan.”
Oishi was most lately Director and Basic Supervisor of Amazon Music Japan after being promoted in 2023. Having joined Amazon in 2014, he has held a number of main roles, together with Head of the Software program and Video Sport division and Director of Leisure Media. Previous to that, he labored at Sony.
Gandhi, who oversaw extensive scale structuring in Asia final yr as Amazon downsized its leisure companies, mentioned in an e mail to workers right now: “We’ve seen nice success with our content material and unimaginable buyer development for Prime Video in Japan over the previous couple of years because of all of your nice work, creativity, and relentless deal with the shopper. I stay tremendous enthusiastic about the way forward for our Prime Video Japan enterprise, particularly with our plans and initiatives for 2025.”
Japan was the primary nation to run a model of Prime Video’s comedy actuality sequence LOL: Final One Laughing, which is now in quite a few Amazon streaming territories as a neighborhood format. The present started life within the nation 2016 as Documental and subsequent up is a British remake that’s launching this yr hosted by Jimmy Carr. Graham Norton and Trevor Noah additionally current variations of the present.
