Group Overview
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453Subsidiaries and Affiliates -
No.10Global Ranking※Ad Age Agency Report 2025 -
953,316(million yen)Revenue -
29,386Employees
The Group consists of 453 subsidiaries and affiliates with a combined total of over 29,386 employees working in over 30 countries and regions around the world (as of March 2025). With revenue of 953,316 million yen (for the year ended March 2025), the Group ranks in the top10 in U.S. trade magazine Ad Age’s “World’s 25 Largest Agency Companies.” It is the second largest agency group in Japan.
Hakuhodo was founded in 1895. Based on the twin pillars of the Company’s unchanging philosophy—Sei-katsu-sha Insight and Partnership—Hakuhodo has been constantly evolving. With teams of highly creative professionals, we help clients both in Japan and overseas resolve issues in a wide range of areas besides advertising, from management and business approaches to measures for addressing social issues.
Going forward, we will continue to leverage the strengths of our creativity to provide new value that contributes to peoples’lifestyles and society at large, as well as to innovations in the structure of our clients’ businesses.
| Name | Hakuhodo Inc. |
|---|---|
| Founded | October 1895 |
| Incorporated | February 1924 |
| President | Kenji Nagura |
| Employees (Consolidated) | 16,093(As of March 31, 2025) |
| Head Office | Akasaka Biz Tower, 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://www.hakuhodo-global.com/ |
Daiko Advertising’s philosophy, Ideas Win, grew from the conviction that only superior ideas can deliver the most effective communication. Daiko’s winning ideas translate into solutions to clients’ marketing challenges. Its strategic solution strengths and superior ideas also help the agency facilitate and deliver more effective, more powerful communications. Through Brand Activation, which further evolves and enhances Daiko’s management approach, Daiko will support the companywide brand-building activities of its clients through the creation of client value, which places the utmost priority on addressing client challenges.
| Name | Daiko Advertising Inc. |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1893 |
| Incorporated | February 1944 |
| President & CEO | Yasuo Izumi |
| Employees (Consolidated) | 1,534(As of March 31, 2025) |
| Location | [Tokyo Head Office] 2-14-5 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo [Osaka Head Office] 2-2-7, Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka |
| Website | https://www.daiko.co.jp/ |
The strength of YOMIKO ADVERTISING lies in the know-how cultivated from its many years of experience in the residential real estate segment. Combining its various expertise with its ability to ascertain the lifestyle needs of people in local communities, YOMIKO aims to contribute to the growth of its clients’ businesses and to create new businesses itself. Furthermore, YOMIKO specializes in business development in the entertainment field, including animated programs and live events. To be a partner to the success of its various clients regardless of the generation, YOMIKO will continue to take on the challenge of creating change with a sense of speed.
| Name | YOMIKO ADVERTISING INC. |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 1929 |
| Incorporated | July 1946 |
| President & CEO | Hideyuki Kikuchi |
| Employees (Consolidated) | 825(As of March 31, 2025) |
| Head Office | Akasaka Park Bldg., 5-2-20 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://www.yomiko.co.jp/en/ |
Hakuhodo DY ONE leverages its expertise and know-how in digital advertising, cultivated since the early days of internet advertising, to provide integrated digital marketing services. With strengths in marketing strategyformulation, creativity, advanced operational management, technological development, and close relationships with media companies and platforms, we offer comprehensive support for digital-driven marketing strategies and technology utilization to both Japanese and international clients.
| Name | Hakuhodo DY ONE Inc. |
|---|---|
| Incorporated | April 2024 |
| President | Hiroaki Kitazume |
| Employees (Consolidated) | 3,172(As of March 31, 2025) |
| Head Office | Akasaka Biz Tower, 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://www.hakuhodody-one.co.jp/en/ |
SOLDOUT, Inc. is a digital marketing agency that joined the Hakuhodo DY Group in April 2022. Since its foundation, SOLDOUT has been helping support the growth of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and start-up companies across Japan. SOLDOUT currently has 20 locations nationwide through which it offers support in the domains of digital marketing, software, media production and operation, and digital transformation. As a company deeply rooted in local communities, SOLDOUT understands the unique issues facing regional SMBs and provides solutions tailored to each individual issue.
SOLDOUT’s mission is to develop an intimate understanding of the ambitions of people looking to take on the challenge of starting and growing a business and provide them with the support needed to do so. By fully leveraging its integrated digital and marketing expertise across Japan, SOLDOUT will help create a next-generation society that rewards those who pursue their dreams.
| Name | SOLDOUT, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Incorporated | December 2009 |
| President & CEO | Tomofumi Kitagawa |
| Employees (Consolidated) | 472(As of March 31, 2025) |
| Head Office | Koraku Mori Building 19F, 1-4-14 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://www.sold-out.co.jp/ |
| Name | OPT, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Incorporated | April 1, 2015 |
| President | Daisuke Kanazawa |
| Employees (Consolidated) | 908(As of December 31, 2025) |
| Head Office | Tokyo Bancho Buldings, 6 Yonbancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://www.opt.ne.jp/company-en/ |
kyu, the strategic operating unit of Hakuhodo DY Holdings, was created in 2014 to ensure the continuous enhancement of specialization and innovation in the Hakuhodo DY Group. kyu is a collective—one with a strategically curated and deliberately limited number of partner organizations. Each shares a belief that creative collaboration yields new solutions to the world’s toughest problems. The kyu collective comes together to invent, make, prototype and design. All partner companies harness their creativity as a force of positive impact for the constituents they have always served—and our firms join together on key issues to propel the greater economy and society forward.
| Name | kyu |
|---|---|
| Formation of the Unit | May 2014 |
| CEO | Rick Greenberg |
| Employees (Consolidated) | 1,944(As of March 31, 2025) |
| Head Office | 395 Hudson Street, 8th Floor New York, NY 10014 |
| Website | https://kyu.com/ |
| Name | ENND PARTNERS Co., Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Incorporated | March 2024 |
| CEO | Masanobu Iwabuchi |
| Head Office | Akasaka Biz Tower, 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://enndpartners.com/en/ |
| Name | HAKUHODO Technologies Inc. |
|---|---|
| Incorporated | April 2022 |
| President | Yuzo Tanaka |
| Employees (Non-consolidated) | 355(As of March 31, 2025) |
| Head Office | Akasaka Biz Tower, 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://www.hakuhodo-technologies.co.jp/ |
Collaborating with Hakuhodo DY Holdings, Hakuhodo DY Corporate Initiative contributes to increasing the market value of the Group by strengthening the capabilities of corporate functions through training and recruitment, and by supporting the generation of synergies through business consolidation, standardization, and digital transformation as Group-wide functions.
| Name | Hakuhodo DY Corporate Initiative Inc. |
|---|---|
| Incorporated | April 2023 |
| President & CEO | Hidetaka Tada |
| Employees (Non-consolidated) | 382 (as of March 31, 2025) |
| Head Office | Akasaka Biz Tower, 5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| Website | https://hakuhodody-initiative.co.jp/ |









