Profile: The man behind Dentsu’s ambitious content business | Analysis

Dentsu Inc’s detractors are fond of stating that the company is too TV-centric in an age where everything is supposed to be digital. It’s true that the company’s dominance in Japanese advertising is built on TV. But it is the development of areas such as original content that sets the company apart from most other advertising agencies, not just in Japan, but globally.

The January promotion of Keiichi Yoshizaki as one of…