2018 was an especially eventful year for smartphone vendors in China. Tears were shed in the rather smaller players as Gionee confronted bankruptcy, Meitu merged into Xiaomi, and Smartisan was said to be acquired by ByteDance. After Xiaomi successfully went public, Huawei missed surpassing Apple in terms of global shipment by 2.8 million units. OnePlus became […]
Tmall and JD had a combined market share of over 85% in China’s B2C e-commerce market
In China, the online retail B2C e-commerce grew by 28.4% to a US$226.38bn market in Q4 2018. Tmall took the lead, followed by JD, Suning, Vipshop, and Gome.
Alibaba Cloud owns 43% China’s public cloud market in 2018
The top 5 public cloud services providers in China are all local companies, with Alibaba taking a disproportionally large share of 43%. Roughly 40% of the top 500 enterprises and 50% of listed companies in China are using Alibaba Cloud.
China retail market to exceed US$5.6 trillion by 2019
The total retail sales in China is projected to exceed US$5.6trn in 2019, eclipsing that of the U.S. by around US$100 billion. The growth rate might fall from 8.5% in 2018 to 7.5%. Over 35% or US$2 trillion of that will come from online retail, as compared with 11% in the U.S., according to the […]
Baidu app’s daily active users grew to 300 million over one night
CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala, or Chunwan, is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Central Television (CCTV) shown on the eve of Chinese New Year on its TV channels. CCTV now requires mobile app advertisers with daily active users of at least 100 million. Otherwise, the server would crash upon broadcasting the advertisement.
Rising outbound travelers from lower tier cities in China
Chinese outbound travelers grew by 20% year-on-year in population, faster than that of domestic travelers, according to the report from Alibaba’s Fliggy. On average, Chinese spending on traveling went up by 9% year-on-year, faster than the growth rate of disposable income per capita (6.5%). Chinese outbound travelers set foot on 192 countries and regions worldwide in […]
Resorts World Sentosa enhances Chinese traveler experience with Alipay mini-program
Alipay and Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) have deepened their strategic partnership to enhance the travel experience of Chinese visitors with the launch of a new RWS mini-programme available on the Alipay mobile application platform – the first of its kind in Singapore. RWS is also the first integrated resort outside of China to offer a […]
Huawei turning its smartphones to POS machines
Huawei is turning all its smartphones to Point-of-Sale (POS) machines based on the NFC technology, which means potentially hundreds of millions of POS machines. Merchants only need to activate online billing service to receive payment without any traditional POS machine or QR code. Huawei Pay made its debut on August 31, 2016, under a joint branding […]
Watsons partners with NetEase in offline retail
The roughly 3-year-old NetEast Yanxuan co-branded with Watsons to form a sub-brand as a brick-and-mortar retail store featured with life aesthetics. It launched in Pazhou Poly Plaza, Guangzhou on January 19, 2019. Yanxuan, one of NetEase’s e-commerce platform, focuses on select daily living products since 2016. It’s the first on the original design manufacturer (ODM) model. […]
China to see 71% of ad spending be programmatic (US$30bn) by 2019
71% of digital ad spending in China will be traded programmatically by 2019. The internet giants BAT controlled around 80% of programmatic buying.
How China’s short video app Kuaishou grew its DAU by 40M in 5 months
China’s short video market saw explosive growth in the past year. The success of Tik Tok (or Douyin in Chinese) soon attracted Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba to join in the competition. In a short span of time, several hundred short video apps appeared in the market. In the short video market, competition is growing fierce […]
Cross-border e-commerce female shoppers trend 2019
China has grown to be one of the biggest markets for fashion where female consumers are a significant force. There are over 80 thousand SKUs of cosmetics products, which makes it harder for consumers to pick up the most suitable products by themselves. In that regard, content recommendation becomes popular with Weitao (part of mobile […]
China’s US$16bn cross-border e-commerce market overview in Q4 2018
China’s cross-border import retail e-commerce market grew by 36% to US$16.86 billion in Q4 2018. Tmall Global and NetEase Kaola together account for 56.2% of China’s cross-border import retail B2C market. China’s General Administration of Customs reported that the import and export cleared by customs’ cross-border retail e-commerce platform totaled 134.7 billion (US$19.82bn) in value […]
China’s best performing cities in 2018, led by Shenzhen & Chongqing
Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Guiyang have made it to the top 10 best performing cities in China for four consecutive years. Among them, Chengdu that topped the ranking in 2017 dropped to the seventh this year while Shenzhen moved up from the fourth to the top. Chongqing retained its second position since 2017. Shenzhen, dubbed […]
ByteDance: A Chinese Mobile App Factory
Many people keeping an eye on the Chinese digital market know Tik Tok, which is known as Douyin in China. Not many know the company behind Tik Tok, ByteDance and its founder Zhang Yiming. ByteDance has also created several other very popular mobile apps such as Toutiao and Xigua Video. ByteDance’s products continue to grow […]