According to iResearch, the total mobile brands advertising cost in June reached 46.09 million yuan (USD 7.48 million). Nokia spent most on online advertising, with 11.56 million yuan (USD 1.87 million). Followed by Motorola and Samsung.
China Mobile Phone Sales Reached 90M, 85% Smartphone in Q2 2013
EnfoDesk just released a report on China mobile phone sales in Q2 2013, which showed that the total mobile phone sales in the second quarter reached 90.39 million set, with a slight QoQ drop of 0.2% and a YoY increase of 36%. Smartphone sales reached 71.11 million, with a QoQ increase of 2.4%, and a […]
Top 10 Financial Websites in Vertical Industry in June 2013
iResearch just released its report on top 10 websites in finance vertical in June 2013. China’s financial websites daily unique visitors reached 22.77 million in June 2013. Eastmoney topped with 7.68 million daily unique visitors, with 3.2% daily reach. Followed by Hexun with 3.5 million and 10JQKA.com with 1.43 million daily unique visitors. Financial websites […]
Sina to Launch Square Style Mobile Payment Solution With Lakala
Sina will launch a Square style mobile payment solution with Lakala, a Chinese independent payment solutions powered by China Unionpay. The cooperation is still under negotiation, said by one staff from Lakala. Lakala would help Sina with hardware and software development and system maintenance. The final product might even be cheaper than Lakala’s own Square […]
China Internet Users Spent Most Online Time Watching Videos and Social Networking
Top 10 internet services didn’t change too much in June 2013, the ranking was the same as May. Users spent most time on watching online videos, with 35% in May. Followed by social network and search.
Sina Reached Strategic Partnership With NBA
On August 6 2013, Sina and NBA announced their strategic partnership. Sina is NBA’s official internet partner and online community partner, reaching to a deeper cooperation three years after their first alliance in 2010. Their cooperation will begin in three areas: mobile broadcasting, community interaction and live video. NBA live games will attract lots of […]
Baidu Awarded Million Dollar Prize to Speech Search Engine Team
Baidu awarded million dollar prize to two teams, one of them was speech search engine team. This is the first time when an end-user oriented team won the prize. Baidu’s million dollar prize is set up by CEO Robin Li, mainly for employees whose position are below director levels. The team should be limited to […]
Wechat Came to the Fifth in the World App Rank in July
GlobalWebIndex found that Google Maps was the top app by monthly usage rate last July, as high as 54%. Followed by Facebook, Youtube, and Google+. Tencent’s Wechat or known, as Weixin in China, came to the fifth place in world mobile ranking, with 27% usage rate. Twitter fell behind Wechat, with 22%. Instagram was ranked […]
Ctrip Cooperating With Its Rival Qunar
Ctrip, the largest online travel agency in China, has begun cooperation with its old rival Qunar which is the Chinese leading travel search engine on vacation packages recently after a long time price war and war of words. Besides, it is said Ctrip and Qunar will further cooperate on air tickets and hotel booking. The […]
Sina Weibo Advertising Revenue Hit 30M USD in Q2 2013
Sina released its Q2 finance report on Aug 12, its advertising revenue hit 30 million USD with a 209% YoY increase, 80% of Sina Weibo total revenue of 37.7 million USD. Sina advertising revenue had a YoY growth of 17%, up to USD 120.6 million. Sina had a net loss attributed to an one-off charge […]
China Online Travel Market Up 29% in Q2 2013
iResearch statistical report showed that China online travel market scale reached 50.9 billion yuan (8.25 billion USD) in Q2 2013, and OTA revenue was 2.67 billion yuan(433 million USD). Although the second quarter of the year is the slack season of travel market, online travel market growing speed was still very fast, with 29% YoY […]
China Search Engine Market Share Update in July 2013
Hitwise report showed that Baidu and Qihoo’s 360 continued eating away other search engines market share. Baidu dominated the market with 73% share, and Qihoo’s 360 followed with approximately 15.5% in June 2013.
China Online Travel OTA Market Update for Q2 2013
In Q2, China online travel OTA market share was quite stable with Ctrip, Elong and 17u staying as the top three players. Ctrip topped with 48% share, followed by Elong with 9.1%, 17u with 6.5%. Ctrip, 17u, 118114, Mangocity had advantages in air tickets booking market; Ctrip, Elong, 17u, 118114 occupied large percent of hotel […]
China Online Third Party Payment Transaction Exceeded 1.1 Trillion
According to iResearch, in Q2 2013, China online third party payment transaction hit 1,121.65 billion yuan (USD 181.83 billion), with a 10.2% QoQ growth. However, YoY increase kept going down, with only 28% in Q2 2013. Online shopping, air tickets booking and game segment markets were saturated, online payment was steadily growing. As mobile online […]
China Search Engine Market Reached 9.28 Billion Yuan in Q2 2013
China search engine Marketreached 9.28 billion yuan(1.5 billion USD) in Q2 2013, with a QoQ growth of 25.1% and a year-on-year growth of 35.3%, according to statistics released by iResearch. China search engine market growth in Q2 was driven by three factors. First, due to seasonal factor, after the Chinese Spring Festival, search traffic was […]