LINE held LINE Business Conference "LINE Day 2020 -TOMORROW'S NEW NORMAL-" online on September 10.LINE holds a conference once a year to announce new LINE functions and future business plans.This year, we announced the eight LINE fields under the theme of "LINE x New Normal".
LINE's non -contact payment service "LINE Pay" will support "Apple Pay" within 2020.This allows you to make payments by holding the iPhone or Apple Watch.Since Android users are already supporting non -contact payments on Google Pay, payment methods such as code payment, holding up, and credit card (Visa LINE PAY) can be used.
Currently, the number of stores that can be used by paying and holding the payment is 3.3 million in Japan.Visa LINE Pay Credit Cards are available at VIAS member stores (61 million stores) in Japan and overseas.In the future, LINE Pay will be further spread, aiming to use more than 90 million payments worldwide, including online payments.
"Reservation on LINE", which allows you to make online reservations and reservations through talks, will start in November 2020.The first partner is "Gournavi", and among the GourNavi -joined restaurants, stores that support online reservations can be reserved from LINE.
In addition, "LINE Place" that can search for stores in LINE will be released after February 2021.LINE Place is a service that allows you to search for stores from LINE home tabs and talks.Since it can be linked with the official account of the store, it will be smooth to reserve the store you are looking for.
Users can create a collection of their favorite stores and share them with friends.The first installment is information on restaurants as "LINE Place for Gourmet", but it will spread to areas such as beauty salons in the future.
In addition, the campaign application platform "Application with LINE" will start after September.It supports applications linked to receipts, serial numbers, and LINE Pay payments.There is also a function to check the reminding and application status of forgetting to apply.LINE POP Media, a digital store POP solution that distributes product information and coupons to users who open LINE in the store, will also start a trial after September.
The LINE Doctor, an online medical treatment service that allows you to receive doctors medical treatment using LINE video calls, will begin in November.You can search, reserve, consult, and settle clinics on LINE.Until now, LINE Healthcare was a talk using talks, but it is also possible to see your face and see a consultation.
LINE also revealed that the number of songs distributed by individuals and indies on LINE MUSIC has increased by 530 % from January 2019 to July 2020.This time, we will also start a function that leads to the creation of artists and creators.
It is said that the LINE timeline will support multi -accounts soon.You will be able to use official accounts, private accounts, hobby promotion accounts, etc. properly.
An account that meets a certain standard can earn advertising revenue by posting advertisements in video content.Advertisements are provided with two types of instruments and banner ads.The self -promot function can also display your post on the target user feed.
And the music distribution service "SoundALLY" is scheduled to start in the winter of 2020.It is a service that can sell and distribute music from a smartphone, so you can register for music distribution services other than LINE MUSIC by registering with Soundally.The feature is that you can register as many songs for free, and all of the profits related to music are returned to the distributors.