China’s third party online payment continues to maintain strong growth in 2011 with an estimated total transaction exceeding 2 trillion yuan (2,203.8 billion yuan or USD 349 billion), up 118%.
Baidu Launched Encyclopedia Digital Museum
Baidu has launched the Baidu Encyclopedia Digital Museum to digitally display the collections of museums across the country. You can click the map tab, select the region and view a list of museums. You can then click on the museum’s name to view its collection, or visit its Baidu Encyclopedia entry. So far, only collections […]
Ratio of Visits: Sina Weibo v.s. Twitter
Sina Weibo accounted for 1 in every 158 Internet visits in China last April. And, it’s growing very fast as shown above according to Hitwise data. This means that Sina Weibo accounted for about 1 in every 100 Internet visits in China, a platform marketers shouldn’t ignore in the overall digital marketing strategies. Also check […]
Baidu Integrates Transport Info In Search Results
Just in time for China’s big holiday, spring festival, Baidu’s Box Computing initiative has come out with its real-time flight status inquiry service, integrated in the search results. When a user searches on Baidu using “flight number”?she can view the real-time flight status on top of the search results like the screenshot shown above. Similarly, […]
Charts: Internet Usage – HK v.s. SEA
According to Nielsen’s report on Hong Kong digital behavior, 87% of Hong Kong consumers have used the Internet in the past 12 months, compared to neighboring markets such as Singapore (67%), Malaysia (38%), Thailand (31%), Philippines (30%) and Indonesia (19%).
Chinese Banks To Benefit from Internet User Data Leak
The user IDs, passwords and email addresses of more than 6 million accounts registered on CSDN were leaked two weeks ago. You may want to check whether your account is already a public secret using Am I Hacked. However, Chinese banks will benefit from this attack as China Ministry of Public Security now requires that leading search […]
Top 10 Fast Growing Chinese B2C Websites in 2011
According to iResearch, the fastest growing B2C website in 2011 by total number of orders is womai.com (owned by China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation; or, COFCO), followed by vjia.com (owned by VANCL) and yaodian100.com.
Baidu Launched Open Beta Test Platform
Baidu officially released its Open Beta Test Platform last Tuesday, a convenient “one-stop shop” for users interested in participating the latest Baidu products testing. Upon signing in, users will discover a personal center, a mission assignment square, an on-the-spot survey column, a gifts center, and an accomplishment column. Users can click on the button “receive […]
Beijing Administration Released Regulations on Microblogs
Beijing Municipal government announced Regulations of Microblog Development today. Micrblogging websites in Beijing city administrative area and their users should comply with the regulations. The regulation requires microblog users to register their identities with authorities and forbids creating fake Weibo accounts.
Chart: Top 10 OTA by Share of Visits in November
Experian released November data for China’s most visited online travel agencies. Does it surprise you that Qunar is the most visited OTA in China?
China Public Holidays in 2012
Chinese government agency has announced the public holidays in 2012 last week, which marketers should know for planning: New Year’s Day: 1-3 January (3 days), 31 Dec 2011 (Saturday) is a working day Chinese New Year: 22-28 January (7 days), Jan 21 (Sat) and Jan 29 (Sun) are working days Ching Ming Festival: 2-4 April […]
Chinese Spent More Time Watching Video on Computers & Mobile Than TV
Starcom MediaVest Group’s recently conducted a study of users ages 13 to 45 in China and found that internet users aged 19 to 30 spent almost twice as much time online as watching TV.
Alibaba Launching A Google+ Like Social Network
A screenshot was leaked yesterday about a new social network, Laiwang.com that Alibaba is building and testing internally:
Demographic Profiles of China’s Top Social Networking Sites
Users China’s top social networking sites are quite young, about 80% of which are between 20-34 years old according to Enfordesk’s data in September this year.
Understanding China’s E-commerce Market
Boston Consulting Group shared research findings this week predicting that China online shopping, will see exponential growth through 2015, with spending that could make China’s e-commerce market worth more than RMB 2 trillion and possibly surpass the size of the U.S. market. Here is a summary of some findings of BCG survey: Less than 10 […]