ctrip.com maintains its dominant position in China’s Online Travel Agency (OTA) market with 41% share of total 2.41 billion yuan revenue (USD 379 million).
China’s Search Engine Market Update for Q3 2011
China web search requests amounted to 77.51 billion times in Q3 2011, up 6.1% from Q2 and 16.3% from Q3 2010 according to research company iResearch.
Top 10 Searched Auto Brands in Oct 2011 [CHART]
According to Hitwise data, the most searched for auto brand is Volkswagen in both September and October.
Renren Reached 137 Million Users in Q3 2011
Renren last week announced its unaudited Q3 financial results, who also made their first post-IPO strategic acquisition, 56.com in Q3, a leading Chinese user-generated-content focused video sharing site Renren’s mobile penetration has reached over 35% of unique monthly log-in users with over half of their mobile users accessing their Renren accounts through smartphones. In addition, […]
A Record Single-day Turnover of 3.36 Billion Yuan Taobao Mall
November 11 (11-11) is Singles Day in China and year 2011 makes this date more special with six “1”s. And, this date is even a bigger date for China’s online retailers. Let’s take a look at how crazy China online shoppers can be on Nov 11 2011 on Taobao Mall (all participating merchants offered 50% […]
Email Deliverability: China v.s. Worldwide v.s. APAC
Email deliverability in China is much worse than the global average; only 58% of all emails can reach users’ inbox, which is also much lower than the average in Asia Pacific region (78%) according to data shown in a recent ReturnPath report.
Chart: Top Online Website Verticals by Unique Visitors
Online portals like Sohu.com and Sina.com.cn still receive the most web traffic in terms of the number of unique visitors.
Chart: Select Digital Media Penetration in China in Q2 2011
According to Synovate’s study, almost half of Internet users between age 15 and 24 in China’s Tier 1 cities (45%) use Weibo and close to one third of China internet users in Tier 1 cities between age 25 and 44 (29%) use Weibo. The adoption of Weibo is more popular than mobile Internet (access via […]
Baidu Stats Providing Speed Diagnosis Tool
Baidu has just launched a web page diagnosis tool as a new feature in their web analytics service Baidu Stats. I recommend you this tool to check your website loading performance in two Internet networks — Unicom and China Telecom networks. This is especially helpful if you have your website hosted outside China. You must […]
Tourists Number Surged During National Day 2011
During the seven days of China’s National Day holidays, about 24.3 million tourists traveled to 119 national scenic attractions according to the National Tourism Administration. That was about 8.84% more compared to the same period of 2010. The tickets sale at these tourists attractions during this period went up by 10.57% to 1.25 billion yuan […]
Stanford Study: Online Lives of Chinese and US Teens
High schoolers in Palo Alto, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley, spend significantly more time using digital media every day than their peers at leading high schools in the Chinese capital. However, Chinese students sometimes outpace their American counterparts in embracing the latest internet technologies and building a network of online friends they have […]
Video: Oprah of China offers insight into the next generation of young Chinese citizens
Yang Lan, a journalist and entrepreneur who’s been called “the Oprah of China,” offers insight into the next generation of young Chinese citizens — urban, connected (via microblogs) and alert to injustice.
Baidu to Launch URL Shortening Service DWZ.cn
Baidu is launching a URL shortening service dwz.cn. Users can type in a URL to have a shortened URL at dwz.cn or a custom shortened URL can be specified. Users can retrieve the original URL with shortened URL; and, DWZ.cn provides API for URL shortening service.