Tencent officially launched WeStore on August 20, 2020, an online store mini program on WeChat.
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How content help businesses in branding and driving sales in China
Nowadays, contents have penetrated all sectors in China and become an important productivity tool. They can help companies realize brand premium, iterate product selection, and upgrade CRM tools. Use contents on building a new brand Some Chinese content specialists think that they should work on content as if they were working on products. For companies, […]
Shoppers could soon buy JD products on Kuaishou platform
Kuaishou (Kwai) Technology and Jingdong (JD) Retail Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement on 27 May 2020 that enables users to buy JD products on Kuaishou platform directly.
China’s digital content ecosystems getting more diverse
Boundaries for content creators in China are disappearing. Their means of creation and background are diversifying. Thanks to the lowered barrier for distribution, now everyone can be a content creator, making the content area more diverse and colorful. On Douyin, fashion, relationship, food, and talent show categories are witnessing saturation; still opportunities in the field […]
3 trends of digital content consumption in China
Technology now facilitates the production and distribution of content. It lowered the barrier of content creation and distribution. As a consequence, contents that previously target specific groups of people can now reach a wider range of audiences in China. The consumption of digital content has seen disappearing boundaries between urban and rural internet users, between […]
How “Lite” apps help drive tech companies’ growth in China
Alibaba launched a “Lite” version of its DingTalk, an enterprise communication and collaboration platform in early April 2020. And, ByteDance also launched a light version of its enterprise messaging app Feishu. Launching a “Lite” version of a mobile app is a common tactic in the Chinese companies’ competitions, which is a lightweight version of the […]
China evening podcast users overview 2020
31.2% of the Chinese population have the habit of listening to audiobooks. And, China has over 200 million evening podcast users with a total playing duration of 10.9 billion hours, according to a recent report from research company Analysis. Users’ evening usage time in the mobile audio segment account for 46.3% of the total usage […]
WeChat advertising trends for luxury products
It has been 6 years since the first advertising for luxury products appeared on WeChat Moments in 2015 and the luxury sector first tested out WeChat Advertising. WeChat as a social platform has redefined luxury product marketing, allowing luxury brands to use social and digital ways to tell Chinese customers their own brand stories. Over […]
Megvii to empower cosmetics retailers with virtual makeup solutions
Kuangshi Technologies, or Megvii as China’s largest facial recognition developer, released FaceStyle beauty cloud solution to empower the beauty industry with AI technologies such as face recognition and human image processing. Through the online makeup trial SDK/API and offline makeup trial app solutions for brick-and-mortar stores, consumers can easily and virtually try out the makeup […]
Xiaohongshu community trends 2020
In terms of overall trends, beauty makeup, travel, fashion, cultural entertainment, and gourmet food rank among the top five in the content ecology of Xiaohongshu’s (a.k.a. Little Red Book) community. Education, photography, sporting events, technology & digital and home furnishing are among the top five rising categories according to a report from Xiaohongshu. Further, Xiaohongshu, […]
China’s largest holographic AR app platform WiMi listed on NASDAQ
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc., a holographic augmented reality (AR) application platform in China, started trading under the ticker symbol of “WIMI” on NASDAQ on 1 April 2020.
Pinduoduo annual buyers grew by 40% to 585 million in 2019
Pinduoduo (NASDAQ: PDD) annual active buyers grew by 40% and exceeded 585 million in 2019 with an average spending of US$247.1, up 53%. It surpassed RMB1 trillion in GMV for the first time in Q4 2019.
Coronavirus outbreak’s impact on China’s consumption
The quick spreading of coronavirus has totally changed China’s usually busy and cheerful Lunar New Year period: people were required to stay at home, inter-city transportation has been largely reduced, international flights have been cut down to minimal, almost everyone has canceled their travel (unless they were already overseas), visiting friends, and out-of-home activities. Schools […]
How some industries in China benefiting from the novel coronavirus outbreak
While most industries are hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), some sectors in China besides the e-commerce (especially fresh food e-commerce) sector see a boost. Find out how businesses in entertainment, healthcare, and real estate are responding as well as the live streaming’s being vastly adopted as a sales and marketing tool in China. […]
TikTok competitor Kuaishou announced DAU of over 300 million
China’s second-largest short-video platform Kuaishou (or Kwai) announced 300 million daily active users (“DAU”) milestone last week. The total number of short videos published on Kwai’s platform exceeded 20 billion.