Prime Video Names Keisuke Oishi Country Manager For Japan

Prime Video Japan has a brand new Nation Supervisor within the form of Keisuke Oishi.

Efficient right this moment, the previous Sony Corp exec will tackle the publish 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 12 months to steer Amutus Company, the dad or mum of Japanese digital manga writer Mecha Comedian, in response to Kodama’s LinkedIn posts. We’ve reached out to Amazon for readability.

Media Companions Asia final 12 months pegged Prime Video as Japan’s largest streamer by subscribers, making Oishi’s new function 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 purchasers 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 Recreation division and Director of Leisure Media. Previous to that, he labored at Sony.

Gandhi, who oversaw broad scale structuring in Asia final 12 months as Amazon downsized its leisure companies, mentioned in an e-mail to employees right this moment: “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 12 months hosted by Jimmy Carr. Graham Norton and Trevor Noah additionally current variations of the present.