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INTEREST: Sanrio Donates to Earthquake-hit Area Every Time its Video is Watched




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Joined: 14 Oct 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 6:53 am Reply with quote
What shameless self promotion in face of tragedy. I really dislike companies doing crap like this. Just donate money, but don't endlessly boast about it.

And tying donations to views? Awful. And 1 yen per view is laughable. To some extent I accept such practices for ongoing issues like medical research. With setups like 10c from a sale goes to research. But in the case of disaster relief they should feel ashamed.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:48 pm Reply with quote
partially wrote:
What shameless self promotion in face of tragedy. I really dislike companies doing crap like this. Just donate money, but don't endlessly boast about it.

And tying donations to views? Awful. And 1 yen per view is laughable. To some extent I accept such practices for ongoing issues like medical research. With setups like 10c from a sale goes to research. But in the case of disaster relief they should feel ashamed.


Sanrio has already donated a few times to help earthquake victims before. One of the main events I can think of is their "Day of Donation." 100% of their profit at their stores goes to the aid the organizations in need.

That being said, I think this is more of a "spread the word internationally" campaign, to help supplement all the other donations they've given in the past.
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