VALUE COMMERCE

ValueCommerce Co., Ltd. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President and CEO: Jin Kagawa), the company that operates the link collection service VLINK (https://vlink.design/), held VLINK VIP PARTY 2024 MASQUERADE NIGHT at Andaz Tokyo on Monday, December 23, 2024. VIPs including special guest Ms. Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Mr. Yuji and specially invited influencers, and other attendees experienced the attractions of VLINK during a panel discussion about influencer activities, a social event and other activities reminiscent of a masquerade ball.

♢ Event title: VLINK VIP PARTY 2024 MASQUERADE NIGHT
♢ Date: Monday, December 23, 2024
♢ Venue: Andaz Tokyo

ValueCommerce Co., Ltd., the organizer, kicked off the event by greet the VIP guests and explaining the company’s services and VLINK’s features.

During the time for chatting, many influencers networked using the VLINK pages they had created, which served as business cards used when explaining their profiles. This inspired the attendees who wanted to connect with the influencers.

Next, a panel discussion was held with Ms. Chinatsu Wakatsuki, a special guest, and Mr. Yuji, the emcee. These celebrities energized the event by sharing examples from VLINK users and Ms. Wakatsuki displayed expertise in responding to the questions the influencers had, such as what can they do to increase the number of followers they have on social media services and how can they stay up to date on trends.

The panel discussion was followed by VLINK SELECTION 2024, where attendees competed for three awards presented on the basis of their VLINK pages.

CONNECT Award
The award goes to the pair of attendees who showed their VLINK pages to more people than any other pair.
SPECIAL Award
Ms. Chinatsu Wakatsuki selects her favorite from among the attendees’ VLINK pages that she has seen.
VLINK Award
The VLINK staff select the most excellently designed VLINK page.

One awardee commented that they completed their VLINK page very quickly during the event and expressed happiness about winning the award.
Another awardee recalled having created a VLINK page based on it being compatible with their Instagram account. The VLINK VIP PARTY ended with a lot of applause from the people throughout the venue.

ValueCommerce will expand its services’ features and promote plans, believing that VLINK will make more people shine as influencers in the future.

Special guest
Chinatsu Wakatsuki

A TV personality born on May 28, 1984 in Saitama. At 17, she was scouted and made her debut. Ms. Wakatsuki gained fans because of her likable personality when appearing on variety shows, and then expanded her activities to other TV programs and many other forms of media. After that, she spent some years overseas before establishing the apparel brand w♡c in 2009, expanding her activities as a designer and clothing manufacturer.
Ms. Wakatsuki got married in 2012 and is currently the mother of two
children. She published a KUMA-TAN educational picture book for
children in 2018, starting her career as a picture book writer. In 2019, she started a new brand, WCJ.

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Yuji

He broke into showbiz as a model and also has an acting career. Beginning in 2009, he worked as an exclusive model for the fashion magazine FINEBOYS. Subsequently, he changed careers, moving to variety shows. Formerly a carpenter, Yuji capitalized on his dexterity and taste in design and also demonstrated his talents in home remodeling and illustration. He got married in February 2014. Today he is raising his three children.
In 2016, he became the youngest-ever winner of the Best Father Yellow Ribbon Award and Ikumen (child-raising father) of the Year in the same year. Also, he hosts ONE MORNING, a TOKYO FM’s radio program that is broadcast live from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Mondays to Fridays.

Photos from the event

Reference Information
Number of Subscribers to VLINK Link Collection Service Reaches 10,000 ─ VLINK Continues to Add Features Emphasizing Users’ Unique Characteristics ─　https://www.valuecommerce.co.jp/news/c_press/6047/

About VLINK
VLINK ( https://vlink.design/ ) enables users to create original profile pages on which they can easily collect and organize information about their social media activities and recommended products for free.
You can show all of your information to your followers on one webpage by placing a link to your VLINK page in the profiles of your social media accounts.
In addition to linking to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter), VLINK has a link creation feature that enables users to register their blogs and favorite websites and allows users to select the design of their profile page.
New features will continue to be added. Look forward to the future evolution of VLINK.

About ValueCommerce Co., Ltd.
ValueCommerce has strong business pillars including the attraction of customers to e-commerce sites via affiliate services, social commerce, retail media and travel techs and sales promotion via pay-per-click advertising at online malls together with e-commerce site operation tools. The company provides total solutions from the attraction of customers to their retention and helps e-commerce business operators maximize their profits.
https://www.valuecommerce.co.jp/en/

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