CIC and GroupM jointly released China social travel white paper in 2013. By collecting and analyzing social media discussion and related information, they classified Chinese travelers into five categories which could be helpful for brands to make market strategies. China National Tourism Administration estimated that Chinese tourism industry would reach 2.9 trillion yuan (USD 471.4 […]
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Mobile Consumers Favor Online Shopping Mall
Ader, a mobile advertising platform owned by renren, released its mobile internet user behavior report in 2013. It said that mobile devices became one of the important tools for getting information and mobile changed the shopping behavior. More than half mobile users shopped in online malls. 86% said they would search on mobile to get […]
Nokia Market Share by Volume Rose to 10% in September 2013
According to Taobao and other distribution channels, Nokia’s market share by volume was over 10% in September 2013. In 2013, Lumia series sold out 4.4 million in quarter one, 5.6 million in quarter two, and 7.2 million in quarter three. In September 2013, Nokia feature phone 1050 ranked top in Taobao, with 47,230 phones sold […]
Alibaba B2B Single Day Transaction Broke USD 679 Million
1688.com, Alibaba’s domestic B2B platform in China, announced on September 5 2013, that the total amount of online transaction on September 4 2013 broke 4.19 billion yuan (USD 679 million). A new record in global B2B market. On September 4, 2013, 230,000 sellers on 1688 made 2.52 million transactions, online transaction in single day mounted […]
China E-Commerce Market Exceeded USD 713 Billion in H1 2013
By the end of June 30 2013, China e-commerce transaction reached 4.4 trillion yuan (USD 713.27 billion), which grew 24.3% compared to last year. B2B transaction totalled 3.4 trillion yuan(USD 551.17 billion), with a 15.3% YoY increase. B2B revenue in the first half of 2013 reached 9.38 billion yuan(USD 1.52 billion), with a 25.9% YoY […]
9 Promotion Photo Tips for China Online Shops
A photo plays a great role in an online shop. And a good one can make a positive impact on promotion. Here are 9 tips on how to create wonderful photos help promote your online shop.
Top China Social Sharing Websites in July 2013
For quite a long time, Sina Weibo and Qzone took the first and second place in terms of China social media sharing ranking, and in July, Sina Weibo beat Qzone to be the top one.
Tmall Double 11 Promotion Is Coming: Are You Ready?
Tmall has promotion activities in all major holidays or festivals in China, such as Teacher’s Day, Mid Autumn Festival, National Day, Double Ninth Festival and Spring Festivals, not to mention some popular western festivals like Christmas and Thanksgiving. One of the biggest promotion activity is not from the festivals we mentioned above. Tmall created Double […]
Alibaba and Tencent Challenging Banks?
Alibaba is said to be launch its credit payment service very soon, allowing users to use up to 5000 yuan(USD 810) credit to pay for purchasing. At the mean time, the newly launched Wechat 5.0 draws a lot of attention for its payment service. Internet companies like Alibaba, Tencent, 360buy and Jingdong Mall are all […]
Alibaba and Sina Exploring “Social Commerce” Business Model
Alibaba and Sina released “Weibo for Taobao” version on August 1, 2013. Before that, they had linked their accounts, and cooperated in various areas, such as exchanging and sharing their user data, online payment and internet marketing, etc. They combined social media and E-business platform to explore a totally new area: Social Commerce.
Ctrip Cooperating With Its Rival Qunar
Ctrip, the largest online travel agency in China, has begun cooperation with its old rival Qunar which is the Chinese leading travel search engine on vacation packages recently after a long time price war and war of words. Besides, it is said Ctrip and Qunar will further cooperate on air tickets and hotel booking. The […]
Sina Weibo Advertising Revenue Hit 30M USD in Q2 2013
Sina released its Q2 finance report on Aug 12, its advertising revenue hit 30 million USD with a 209% YoY increase, 80% of Sina Weibo total revenue of 37.7 million USD. Sina advertising revenue had a YoY growth of 17%, up to USD 120.6 million. Sina had a net loss attributed to an one-off charge […]
10 Charts to Tell You About China Online Shopping Market in Q2 2013
iResearch recently released its China Internet Data Report in Q2 2013, giving us a glimpse of China internet performance in Q2. Online Markets and Online Advertising As you can tell from the chart above, Mobile won over PC devices on internet segment markets growth, such as shopping, searching, marketing(searching excluded) and game. Online shopping and […]
China Online B2C Market Surpassed 30% of Total Online Shopping
According to iResearch,Chinese online transaction market scale reached 352.1 billion yuan (USD 57.52 billion), with a year-on-year increase of 36.6%. B2C has surpassed 30%, increasing 10% compared to last year. Tmall is leading B2C market, with 51.3% online market share in Q2, while Jingdong tops independent sales B2C market with 43.4% share.
China Online Ad Market Reached 23 Billion Yuan in Q2 2013
China online ad market in Q2, from iResearch data, reached 23.26 billion yuan (USD 3.8 billion), growing 17.4% compared to Q1 and YoY growth of 27.4%. China online ad market is entering to a steady growth stage. In Q2, search, video, news and navigation monthly usage increased. NetEase, Taobao and eTao had more than 10% […]