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Kang Hee-suk (left), head of enterprise at Naver Z, and Birathon Kasemsri, chief strategic content material and public affairs officer at True, pose for a photograph through the two firms’ partnership signing occasion at True’s workplace in Bangkok on Wednesday. (Naver) |
Naver Z and True Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding for a strategic partnership between the 2 companies at True’s Bangkok workplace on Wednesday.
“By this partnership, we are going to look to steer Thailand into the world of metaverse by combining True group’s huge digital ecosystem and Naver Z’s metaverse experience,” mentioned Birathon Kasemsri, chief strategic content material and public affairs officer at True.
“We are going to make the most of Zepeto as a platform to supply futuristic on-and-offline experiences tailor-made for Thai prospects’ life-style and switch the delicate energy of Thailand into metaverse content material to share it with Zepeto’s world customers,” he added.
In accordance with Naver, there are hundreds of thousands of Zepeto customers in Thailand with over 500,000 Thai creators energetic on the metaverse platform. Naver Z mentioned Zepeto has cemented its place because the nation’s hottest metaverse service amongst youngsters and people of their early 20s, often known as Era Z.
The metaverse developer highlighted that Zepeto has change into a platform for Ok-pop followers to get pleasure from Ok-pop content material within the digital world. Lisa, the Thai rapper of worldwide Ok-pop woman group Blackpink, held an occasion at Bvlgari’s world on Zepeto on Wednesday to take photos together with her followers’ avatars.
Zepeto’s variety of month-to-month energetic customers surpassed 20 million as of August, in keeping with Naver. Customers on Zepeto have created over 7 million objects through the use of Zepeto Studio and the objects have been bought over 175 million instances for the monetary good thing about the creators.
“By wide-ranging cooperation with True group that has an awesome affect in Thailand, we are going to speed up the expansion of Zepeto in Thailand and uncover artistic creators who could make up superior worlds and objects,” mentioned Kang Hee-suk, head of enterprise at Naver Z.
By Kan Hyeong-woo (hwkan@heraldcorp.com)
