DIRECTOR

Ayano Yazawa

矢澤綾乃

Director, The Oshi Lab

CEO of KAZAORI Inc. and director of The Oshi Lab (推し活未来研究所). A professional bassist with experience as an idol producer and in event production, she provides the fan engagement system PQuuut to companies and professional sports clubs. Having built a new business in the oshi-katsu market from scratch herself, she studies oshi-katsu as both culture and business.

What she researches

  • Reading the oshi-katsu market and fan spending through case studies and published data
  • How companies, clubs and local governments take in fans’ passion and turn it into systems
  • Tracing the history of fan culture to understand where today’s trends come from

Where to find her work

Interviews and talks

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