One month after Alibaba Double 11 online shopping festival on Singles Day in China, Alibaba launched Double 12 online shopping festival on its C2C website Taobao.
iOS accounted for 17.1% of smartphone sales in urban China in Oct 2016
iOS accounted for 17.1% of smartphone sales in urban China during the three-month period ending in October 2016 due to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus’ strong performances according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
China online travel market overview Q3 2016
Total transactions of China’s online travel market reached 162.76 billion yuan (US$23.59 billion). OTA revenues totaled 8.19 billion yuan (US$1.19 billion).
Starbucks starts accepting WeChat Pay
Tencent and Starbucks announced strategic cooperation in Guangzhou today; and from today on, WeChat Pay is available in about 2,500 Starbucks stores in China.
These 22 FMCG companies reached over 100M urban Chinese households
22 fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies reached over 100 million urban Chinese households during the 52 weeks ending October 7, 2016 according to Kantar Worldpanel.
Top Baidu keywords in 2016
Baidu released lists of top searched keywords in 2016. Rio Olympics is the top keyword in 2016; VR the most popular technology trend on Baidu; and, the most searched mobile apps are QQ, WeChat, and Baidu Mobile.
China social media ads market overview Q3 2016
China social media advertising and marketing market reached 6.38 billion yuan, an increase of 17.7% QoQ.
China online and convenience stores enjoying strong momentum
Online and convenience stores in China are enjoying strong momentum while supermarket growth continuously slowed and hypermarket sales even declined according to Kantar Worldpanel.
Baidu version of Google AMP
Baidu launched Mobile Instant Page (“MIP”) in August 2016, a similar technology to Google’s AMP.
China mobile app market insights for Q3 2016
The number of monthly active users (“MAU”) of China’s mobile internet market has reached 1 billion as of September 2016 according to QuestMobile, among which Android and iOS exceeded 700 and 280 million respectively.
China online shopping platforms market share Q3 2016
Total transaction value of China online shopping market reached 1.15 trillion yuan (US$166.85 billion) in Q3 2016, up 23.6% YoY or 2.6% QoQ, according to data from iResearch.
Top categories on China Singles Day promotion 2016: apparel, food
Tmall GMV on Singles Day (Double 11) in 2016 reached 120.7 billion yuan (US$17.79 bn) with an increase of 32% YoY, covering 235 countries; mobile accounted for 81.87%. Find out the top selling product categories.
Social, mobile the key driving forces of Chinese post-90s
VIVO and OPPO are top choices among high school/university post-90s in China as they are affordable with strong camera and multimedia functions.
Weibo MAUs grew 34% YoY to 297 million in Sep 2016
Weibo’s Monthly active users (“MAUs”) grew 34% year over year to 297 million in September 2016, 89% of which were mobile users.
93.3% of urban Chinese families bought imported FMCG goods
93.3% of urban Chinese families have bought or received imported FMCG goods in the 12 months ending June, 2016 according to Kantar.