According to Hitwise, Jingdong is the most visited B2C website with over 462 million visits, who also had the fastest month-on-month growth of 30%.
The Rise of Mobile Social Media in China
Social media has become part of Chinese netizens’ everyday life from instant messaging to Weibo and social networking.
China Mobile Internet Users Spent Longer Online But Less Frequent
According to DCCI, China mobile users spent an average of 3.5 hours per day surfing Internet this year compared to three hours last year. They access Internet an overage of eleven times, down from fourteen times last year.
The Characteristics of Weibo Video Viewers
Video sharing is very popular on social media; it’s the same in China. Top 10 video websites take up 93.8% of the total video sharing on Weibo.
China Search Engine Market Share by Visits in Q1 2013
According to EnfoDesk, Baidu had 66.91% China search engine market share in the first quarter of 2013 by user visits, followed by 360 with 13.42% and Sogou with 9.32%.
China Online Travel Market Update for Q1 2013
The data provided by iResearch shows that China online travel market in the first quarter of 2013 kept a relatively high rate of year-on-year growth. And the total transaction sie had reached 45.27 billion yuan (about USD 7.4 billion).
Alibaba Has Become the Top-Earning Internet Company
With the release of Alibaba’s Q4 financial results in 2012, the rank of top 3 internet companies, including Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, has changed finally. Because of the great performance in the last quarter of 2012, Alibaba has risen to the top, becoming the top-earning internet company.
Tencent Securing 600 Million Mobile Users with Qzone, QQ & Wechat
Hou Xiaonan, the vice general manager of Tencent’s open platform recently announced that the monthly active users of WeChat, one of Tencent’s app had reached 190 million users; and, mobile QQ had reached 500 million, Qzone 600 million.
Almost Half of China Smartphone Traffic from Android Devices
According to The State of Mobile Benchmark report released by Adobe in April, almost half of China mobile internet visits are from Android devices, compared to slightly over one third from iOS devices.
Top 5 Apps on Android and iPhone in China
According to TNS, UC mobile leads mobile app facetime but is closely followed by Mobile QQ, WeChat and Weibo.
10,000 Packages from Taobao Being Shipped to Taiwan Every Day
The annual financial report of Alipay, part of Alibaba Group, showed that half of Alipay revenue came from Taobao. In the top 10 cities of per capita Alipay expenditure listed in the statement of account, four cities of Taiwan are included. Perhaps more surprising is that Taiwan’s Chiayi City climbs atop. The per capita Alipay […]
Can Sina Weibo Promoted Post Really Help?
Recently Sina Weibo held an introduction and marketing event to promote its Weibo Promoted Post. This new form of marketing feature, similar to Facebook’s Promoted Posts, enable weibo posts to reach more Weibo users, showing up on top of Weibo users’ content stream. Sina will charge advertisers based on the total impressions delivered (CPM model) […]
Sina Weibo Starts Showing Individual Post Views
This week Sina quietly launched a new feature for all Weibo users to see how many people have viewed each post, just like the one shown on Facebook Pages:
Tencent Active IM Users Close to 800 Million, Social Network Qzone Over 600 Million in 2012
Tencent revenues were RMB 43,893.7 million (USD6,983.3 million), an increase of 54.0% over the year ended December 31, 2011 (“YoY”) according to its Q4 and annual results announcement. Tencent social networks registered solid growth in 2012, with increase in the scale and activity of mobile users. MAU of Qzone increased by 9% year-on-year to 603 million at the end of […]
How Many Users Can You Really Reach on Sina Weibo
A study, conducted by researchers at Hong Kong University, studied a random sample of roughly 30,000 users and found that 57% had no posts in the timeline, 86.9% of users wrote no original posts and 88.9% did not repost any original message from another account. Sina claimed Weibo reached 503 million registered users by the end of […]