WeChat now hosts more than 14 million WeChat official accounts, used by companies, retailers, and brands to interact with the public.
China smartphone market in Q3 2017; 4 out of 10 using Huawei or iPhone
iPhone and Huawei smartphones showed retention rates of 18.5% and 18.1% in China respectively as of September 2017 according to data from Jiguang. OPPO, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Samsung followed iPhone and Huawei in Q3 2017 in terms of smartphone retentions. iPhone users are mainly concentrated in tier-1 Chinese cities. Top 5 smartphone brands by sales […]
Over 3/4 China smartphone users to use phone payment in 2017
More than three-quarters (76.3%) of smartphone users (461.4 million) in China will use phone payment for goods and services at the point of sale (POS) in 2017 according to eMarketer, raising its projections by more than 86.0%.
Chinese consumer habits in smartphone purchases 2017
Chinese consumers were once notorious for changing and upgrading their mobile phones at a furious pace. In recent years, however, this trend has begun into change, driven by increasing quality in phones and by increasing prosperity, with fewer consumers viewing smaller purchases such as smartphones as signals of status. Upgrade frequency is falling In 2017, the proportion […]
China’s mobile banking market overview Q2 2017
Total transactions of China mobile banking clients totaled 55.63 trillion yuan (US$8.44 trillion) with an increase of 5.1% QoQ. China Construction Bank (26.1%) and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (21%) combined account for close to half of China’s mobile banking market in Q2 2017. Check out mobile payment usage report here…. Already subscribed? Sign […]
China’s mobile live streaming market insights Q2 2017
Momo Live Video Service (Web version) Live streaming is experiencing rapid growth in China, fueled in part by a limited selection of entertainment media and a shortage of other “reality” programming; live streams have achieved popularity by showcasing everything from everyday life to cooking, even including one in which the creator streams herself eating meals […]
Adidas tests the waters with first Weibo Stories ad
Adidas recently released its first foray into Weibo Story advertising, a series of four short videos promoting a new product line. Climbing the learning curve Watching the video, it becomes clear that their first effort has some shortcomings: not once, in all four videos, does the Adidas logo appear, while the Adidas heartbeat associated with […]
China mobile phone market insights in H1 2017
GfK released a report on China’s mobile phone industry in H1 2017 on August 18th. The report shows that China’s mobile phone retail market continued rapid growth while the volume of retail sales slowed down. At the same time, the channel and brand resources will be further concentrated, 2017 mobile phone market competition is still […]
Social mobile app Momo MAU grew to 91.3 million in Q2 2017
Momo, one of the top social networking mobile app, monthly active users (“MAU”) reached 91.3 million in June 2017, compared to 74.8 million in June 2016 according to its financial results.
China’s mobile data usage more than doubled in H1 2017
There was a total of 1.36 billion mobile phone users in China at the end of June 2017 according to the latest official data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, an increase of 42.74 million compared the beginning of the year.
[CASE STUDIES] WeChat promotional pages
Since its launch in 2016, WeChat Moments advertising, with its full-screen immersive browsing, speedy load times, and other advantages, has been the tool of choice for many advertisers. In order to better enable such users, WeChat has released updated features for its advertising platform, introducing a fully-customizable promotion function. What is the custom promotion page? […]
Mobile social content sharing insights in China
The proportion of lifestyle content sharing from mobile apps in China kept increasing in the twelve months ending in March 2017 while games and shopping categories shrank. WeChat is the top channel of mobile sharing in China. The number of sharing to WeChat friends (chats) exceeded that of WeChat Moments (social networking section on WeChat) […]
China’s mobile phone market overview in June 2017
In June 2017, China’s mobile market has produced a total of 41.786 million mobile phones, showing a comparative 6.2% decrease; there are 97 newly released models, which has decreased 29.7%. In the first half of 2017, China’s mobile market has produced 239 million mobile phones and released 565 new phone models, showing a decrease of […]
Drive customer engagement with scene marketing
Now, people go to McDonald’s in China, in addition to queue to buy their meals, they can also order online and take meals offline by using McDonald’s ordering App. By constantly optimizing and upgrading usage scenarios, scene marketing is transforming traditional offline marketing in the internet way. So, what is Scene Marketing? Scene marketing is […]
WeChat enhanced in-app search results with mini-programs data
Tencent has enhanced WeChat search features this week and feed the search results with data from WeChat Mini-Programs.