According to the mobility report released by Ericsson, the global mobile subscriptions increased 110 million in the third quarter, reaching about 6.6 billion in Q3 2013. The subscription kept growing steadily, with the YoY growth of 7% and QoQ growth of 2%.
Alipay is The Largest Mobile Payments Platform in The World
The real-name users of Alipay reached 300 million by the end of 2013. These users made 12.5 billion payments by Alipay in 2013. Over 2.78 billion payments was made via Mobile Alipay, added up to 900 billion yuan(USD 150 billion), while total mobile payment by Square and Paypal was about USD 50 billion in 2013. […]
GlobalWebIndex: China Had The Highest Mobile Internet Penetration
GlobalWebIndex data showed that 65% of netizen worldwide accessed internet via mobile phone, while the percentage was even higher in specific country-China had 83% mobile internet penetration with approximately 383 million netizens.
China Mobile Shopping Market Snapshot in 2013
China mobile shopping market reached 167.64 billion yuan (USD 27.459 billion) in 2013, with 165.4% YoY growth. The market kept increasing rapidly under the circumstance of a better network coverage system and higher mobile terminal penetration. In the same period, the size of online shopping by PC is nearly 1600 billion yuan (USD 262.08 billion), with a […]
China’s Top Social Media Apps in 2013
Enfodesk just published China social media app active users ranking in December 2013, Qzone ranked the top with 211.03 million active users. Followed by Baidu Tieba, with 61.16 million active users. Renren ranked the third with 35.59 million in December 2013.
10 Case Studies for Wechat Marketing
Wechat monthly active users reached 270 million in November, with over 600 million registered users. Since the launch of Wechat 5.0 and a series of open API policies made it the new marketing favorite of many enterprises. Let’s take a look at Wechat successful marketing cases.
Chinese Travelers Mobile App Search Behavior (3 Part Series)
This is the part 3 of a series of posts that gives you insights on China LBS travel market users behaviors. Part 1, Part 2. Travelers who used mobile map apps showed a relatively high demand for POI information. 69.8% of them demanded for detailed shops information in the neighbourhood, 53.5% asked for shops coupons […]
Xiaomi Sold 18.7 Million Smartphones in 2013
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced Xiaomi’s performance in 2013 on January 2, 2014. In Lei Jun’s email to staff, he revealed Xiaomi sold out 18.7 million smartphones in 2013, increasing 160%. Xiaomi’s revenue (including tax) reached 31.6 billion yuan (USD 5.18 billion), growing 150% in 2013. In December alone, Xiaomi sold 32.25 million mobile phones, […]
Sina Weibo User Demographics Analysis in 2013 (4 Part Series)
This is the part 1 of a series of posts that gives you insights on Chinese netizens behaviors from Sina Weibo. Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Sina Weibo launched its 2013 Weibo User Development Report on December 6, based on massive Weibo user accounts information and consumption behavior to offer enterprises effective data support […]
China Social Sharing Apps Usage in Travel (3 Part Series)
This is the part 2 of a series of posts that gives you insights on China LBS travel market users behaviors. Part 1, Part 3. With the basic understanding of consumer demographics features, now we take a further look at social sharing apps’ usage in travel. Sina Weibo and Wechat ranked the first and second […]
China LBS Travel Market User Insights (Part 1 of 3 Part Series)
This is the part 1 of a series of posts that gives you insights on China LBS travel market users behaviors. Part 2, Part 3. According to Enfodesk published China LBS Travel Market User Behavior 2013 Report, customized vertical travel search engines became the new leading growing point in travel industry, consumers could get personalized […]
China Smartphone Brand Awareness in Nov 2013
In November 2013, according to ZDC report, Chinese smartphone market brand awareness basically didn’t change. iPhone 5S ranked the top in product awareness, LG Nexus 5 gained product awareness rapidly and soon ranked in top 10 list. On the whole, the competition grew more intense in smartphone market, especially in android OS market.
REPORT China Mobile Payment User Behavior 2013
According to iResearch report on China mobile payment user behavior in 2013, in the aspects of mobile payment recognition, only 20.7% of Chinese users knew nothing about mobile payment. Over 70% of users had a certain knowledge of mobile payment. At the same time, 71.2% of users haven’t used mobile payment before, frequently users only […]
Hazy Weather Tops Taobao Shopping Keywords Of The Year
Taobao published 2013 shopping keywords on December 12, 2013. Hazy weather, tuhao, dama, and mobile shopping, etc. were the top Taobao shopping keywords of the year.
Apple Rose To The Third In China Smartphone Market In Oct 2013
According to Counterpoint smartphone market research in October 2013, iPhone 5S became the bestselling smartphone globally. Meanwhile, Apple had occupied one fourths of China smartphone market and its cooperation with China Mobile was about to begin. In October 2013, Apple rose to the third place in China smartphone market, behind Samsung and Lenovo.