{"rewrite":{"id":"r_f5c8b1380da9c9fd61fdac5c","clusterId":"c_3cc2215e70b64294005dd75a","slug":"b-zai-s-katsuki-motodaka-wins-jaciii-young-researcher-award-for-ticket-sales-paper","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"B\u0026ZAI's Katsuki Motodaka Wins JACIII Young Researcher Award For Ticket Sales Paper","summary":"Katsuki Motodaka of B\u0026ZAI won the JACIII Young Researcher Award 2026 from the international journal Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. He reported the award on the Nippon TV program DayDay. on Friday, September 18. The recognized paper, written with Waseda University professor Takashi Hasuike, analyzes ticket sales strategies in the live entertainment market.","whyItMatters":"A working idol writing peer-reviewed simulation research on the ticket market he performs in gives the hybrid pricing debate an author who sits on both sides of the transaction.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eMotodaka said on DayDay. that the paper was chosen as one of two from 414 published in the journal between 2023 and 2025. The paper, \u0026#34;Empirical Analysis of Ticket-Sales Strategies in the Live Entertainment Market,\u0026#34; ran in JACIII in July 2025 and was written with Takashi Hasuike of Waseda University\u0026#39;s Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt uses social simulation built on concerts held in Japan to test hybrid sales, which sell all seats at one price while auctioning some. The paper notes that premium seats for high-paying buyers can fund lower prices on standard seats, and frames the method as a way to limit resale profits in the secondary market.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Katsuki Motodaka's award paper analyzes ticket sales strategies in the live entertainment market, a subject he knows from the stage side. The academic frame treats idol demand as a modeling problem, not a fandom story.","twitterPost":"Katsuki Motodaka's award paper studies live ticket sales strategies, the same market B\u0026ZAI performs in. He is analyzing his own industry from the inside.","threadsPost":"Katsuki Motodaka's JACIII Young Researcher Award is for a paper on ticket sales strategies in the live entertainment market. That is his own industry being treated as a computational model. The research sits close enough to home that the findings could describe the business he works in.","newsletterBlurb":"Katsuki Motodaka of B\u0026ZAI won the JACIII Young Researcher Award 2026 for a paper on ticket sales strategies in the live entertainment market, written with Waseda University professor Takashi Hasuike. He reported the award on the Nippon TV program DayDay. on September 18. The paper was one of two selected from 414 published in the journal between 2023 and 2025.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"KAI-YOU\",\"url\":\"https://kai-you.net/article/96597\",\"title\":\"B\\u0026ZAI's Katsuki Motodaka Wins Young Researcher Award from International Academic Journal for Research on Live Ticket Sales Strategies\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4676,"outputTokens":637,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789723762,"createdAt":"2026-09-18T09:23:36.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-18T09:28:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T09:28:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_3cc2215e70b64294005dd75a","canonicalTitle":"B\u0026ZAI本髙克樹、国際学術誌の若手研究者賞を受賞　ライブチケットの販売戦略を研究","representativeArticleId":"a_0a8f6c29186bd1deba17ad35","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Katsuki Motodaka\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"music\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-18T08:26:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-18T08:26:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T09:28:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"KAI-YOU","url":"https://kai-you.net/article/96597","title":"B\u0026ZAI本髙克樹、国際学術誌の若手研究者賞を受賞　ライブチケットの販売戦略を研究"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Katsuki Motodaka"],"type":"news","domain":"music","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}