Topic summary
AbemaTV
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Abema.
2015: Launch
Though CyberAgent also owns a similarly-named social networking service called Ameba, they chose not to re-use the brand for AbemaTV due to the existence of a Canadian service called Ameba TV. According to Fujita, he wanted the name to convey that AbemaTV was an extension of Ameba, which had been around for over 10 years. However, he admitted that the name AbemaTV could be difficult to remember and pronounce, stating that he himself occasionally mispronounced it.