Alibaba Tmall kicks off 2021’s 618 Shopping Festival on 24 May. This year’s pre-sale activities are obviously ahead of schedule. The balance will be paid on June 1, and the discount will last for 20 days.
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Private domain operation trends of retail chain enterprises in China
WeChat ecosystem has boosted retail chain brands’ business through Official Accounts, WeChat community, personal accounts, mini programs, live streaming, and etc. It delivers better customer retention, higher repeat purchase, and optimal value per customer. Compared with the traditional online channel, the private domain traffic operation saves the platform commission and the platform traffic purchase cost; […]
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, […]
Mini Programs usage insights for Feb 2020; DAU exceeded 450 million
The Daily Active Users (DAU) of mini programs in China has already surpassed 450 million, according to Aladdin’s report released in March 2020, a 3rd party mini program data platform. The number of available mini programs on the market reached 3.9 million, 600,000 more compared to 2 months earlier. As a comparison, Apple Store has only […]
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. […]
Story of Li Ziqi: Top YouTube influencer from China with 8.7M subscribers
The 29-year-old Li Ziqi was seated, wearing a pink cheongsam (a.k.a. qipao) and a white outfit, in the cover of the latest China Newsweek’s Dec. 30 2019 issue. Besides her are Gree Electric Chairman Dong Mingzhu, Executive Vice President of Renmin University of China Wang Liming, President of Mengniu Group Lu Minfang, Actor Yang and […]
Looking into Taobao Light Store with Starbucks
If you open mobile Taobao and search “Starbucks”, you may see a new page completely different from before. In the past, when users search an established brand, the corresponding result would be the flagship store. The link to the flagship store will be displayed on the top of the page, with other various relevant goods […]
China Double 11 shopping festival statistics 2019; best-selling brands
Alibaba’s Tmall reached 10 billion yuan in less than two minutes (00:01:36) and 30 billion yuan in about 5 minutes (00:05:25), 50 billion in 13 minutes (00:12:49) in Double 11 Global Shopping Festival 2019.
Apple’s iPhone 11 sales broke 100 million yuan in 1 minute on Double 11 2019
In the recent “Double 11 2019” shopping festival in China, Apple’s official flagship store on Tmall “Singles Day” transaction exceeded 7 times of last year’s full day sales in just 10 minutes. iPhone 11 broke 100 million yuan in sales in 1 minute.
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 […]
Sneaker trading exchange? how some were sold x10 price in China
Recently, “Investing in sneakers” has become a trend, it is said that selling sneakers can bring money more easily and quickly than selling houses. And, “a post-95 young man bought a house in Hangzhou by investing in sneakers” became a trending topic on Weibo. However, recently, a young man in Nanjing lost a lot of […]
Weibo’s monthly active users grew to 486 million in Q2 2019
Weibo’s monthly active users (“MAUs”) reached 486 million in June 2019, a net addition of approximately 55 million users year-over-year. Mobile MAUs represented approximately 94% of MAUs. Weibo average daily active users (“DAUs”) were 211 million in June 2019, a net addition of about 21 million users year-over-year according to Weibo’s official finance results.
China’s top mobile payment apps compared: Alipay, Tenpay, Unionpay
The competition pattern of “duopoly” is still solid, while the competitiveness of UnionPay, a state-owned player, is improving. The penetration rates of Tenpay, inclusive of WeChat Pay and Mobile QQ Wallet, and Alipay are 89.2% and 69.5% respectively, with the number of estimated users reaching 940 million and 740 million respectively, according to an Ipsos […]
A Chinese retailer’s digital transformation journey
Last November, Tianhong’s Junshang 3019sp@ce supermarket officially upgraded to a WeChat payment smart retail store. The number of cashiers reduced from 15-20 to only two on that day, most of which were replaced by self-checkout machines.
China luxury goods market to reach US$186 bn by 2024
Chinese consumers were expected to contribute 40% sales to the global luxury goods market and hence drive 75% of this market’s growth. 58% of luxury goods consumers were the youthful population. 58% of them located at tier-2, tier-3, and lower-tier cities. Mobile occupied 54% of luxury goods consumers’ attention. 58% of consumers prefer collecting information online and buy luxury goods through […]