It’s hard to pinpoint when it started, but major Chinese tech companies have become obsessed with “planting grass” (Zhongcao). “Planting grass”, or Zhongcao, refers to recommending quality products to others to entice purchases or generating a desire to experience or possess something based on external information. In recent years, internet giants such as Tencent, Alibaba, […]
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Top 13 global B2C e-commerce companies by GMV, led by Alibaba and Amazon
COVID-19 generated an increase in demand for online sales of physical goods due to quarantine restrictions imposed in many countries.1 Overall retail sales declined by 1% in a group of seven countries in 2020 included in a UN report while online retail grew by 22%.
Alibaba’s e-commerce platform AliExpress launched influencer program
AliExpress, Alibaba Group’s export e-commerce platform, announced last week that it will empower over 100,000 content creators and influencers worldwide to bring new jobs and help them generate incomes to recover from the global economic downturn caused by COVID-19.
How Taobao’s social affiliate platform Taoxiaopu works
Alibaba Taobao announced the official launch of Taoxiaopu in the last week of 2019 after half a year’s testing. It is now open to everyone for free. Through Taoxiaopu, anyone can sell products without inventories and make money from commissions with a few clicks. Taobao already has an affiliate program called Taobaoke; why does Alibaba […]
Fake fans and manipulations on China social media
Hive Media, the largest MCN on Weibo, is accused of falsifying data. Parties involved in the whole incident – the advertisers, Hive and Weibo site – all received negative comments on social media in China. MCN, or multi-channel network, refers to companies that work with multiple channels and content creators, consulting or assisting towards success […]
Mobile social app Momo MAU grew to 114 million in Jun 2019
Momo, one of China’s top mobile social networking platform, announced total net revenues of RMB4,152.6 million (US$604.9 million) in the second quarter of 2019, an increase of 32% from RMB3,152.5 million in Q2 2018.
How Becky built its e-commerce success on WeChat
In Becky’s initial WeChat e-commerce mini-program launch in December 2017, the transactions exceeded one million yuan in 7 minutes and nearly 3 million yuan sales in 113 minutes according to WeChat Advertising. Since then, it has been able to maintain a million transactions in the first minute of new product launches. For a direct e-commerce […]
A community based e-commerce platform penetrated 10 million households
Founded in 2018, Shihuituan is a gourmet community e-commerce service platform. It focuses on fruits and vegetables as well as household items targeting the community as the entry point.
Tencent testing a new social shopping feature on WeChat
During the night of May 11, WeChat “quietly” made a major update to the “Goodies Circle”, which was praised by the industry as the “shopping version of Moments”. Within the “Search” entrance of Wechat appeared a new first-tier entrance of “Goodies Circle”. In addition, a new function of “New Circle & Group” has been added […]
Have you utilized live video broadcasting for your China e-commerce sales?
Live video broadcasting has proven to be a fun, engaging way to connect with followers and grow the audience. 78% of online viewers are watching video on Facebook Live as of 2018. In China, live streaming has stepped up the game and become a useful tool to drive e-commerce traffic and sales.
China retail trend 2019; to hit US$6.77 trillion, fueled by e-commerce and new retail
China’s retail market is estimated to hit US$6.77 trillion by 2019 with e-commerce representing 14.46% of this market. The population of post-80s and post-90s totaled nearly 411 million, more than that of North America. As the millennials group is becoming stronger in consumption and disposable income, brands come to treat them as target customers. 92% of consumption […]
China cross-border e-commerce sales insights for Black Friday 2018
Chinese cross-border e-commerce players took advantage of Black Friday to launch a big promotion for imported goods. To some extent, Black Friday is more distinct in theme for cross-border e-commerce than Double 11. Sales of many direct delivery products were more than doubled on JD.com. NetEase Kaola saw sales exceeding the entire sales of last year’s […]
China’s flower e-commerce market in strong growth; to hit US$7 billion by 2021
In China, the flower e-commerce has been a 12.41 billion yuan (US$1.79 bn) market in 2017, approximately 10 times larger than it was in 2013. With the development of consumption habits and the improvement of cold chain logistics, this market is blossoming. Previously, it occurred to people only when there were festivals or big events. […]
China mobile e-commerce users overview in H1 2018
The number of mobile e-commerce users in China totaled 473 million in 2017, an increase of 13.2%. It is expected to reach 512 million by the end of 2018. Tencent social ads were the top choice for 64.8% of e-commerce apps advertising, Toutiao 29.5%, and Zhihu 19.3%. Mobile e-commerce users are getting younger with 43.3% […]
Top social networking mobile apps in China in Q2 2018, led by WeChat, QQ, Weibo
WeChat (86%), QQ (70.1%), and Weibo (35.8%) were the top three mobile social networking apps by penetration rates in China. Both WeChat and QQ saw a negative growth in penetration in June 2018 while Weibo performed well with penetration growth of 2.2%. In June 2018, the average DAU of WeChat reached 612 million, an increase of […]