DingTalk, Alibaba’s enterprise communication and collaboration platform, is the top rising mobile app in the 100M-500M MAU group in March 2020. The monthly active users of DingTalk skyrocketed to 288 million in March 2020 from 47 million in March 2019, an increase of 513% YoY. The average monthly usage hours also grew sharply by 570% […]
China express delivery business volume up 41% in May 2020
In May 2020, the business volume of China’s express delivery service completed 7.38 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 41.1%; the corresponding business revenues totaled 77.19 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.9%. The business volume of the express delivery services in China has accumulated 26.41 billion pieces in the first five months of 2020, […]
7 Consumption trends revealed on the first day of JD 618
There has been an all-around increase in electronics products, fresh food, and household daily use products. The rebound of large household appliances once affected by the epidemic is quite apparent, among which the trend is most obvious in China’s central and southern provinces. Transactions doubled in Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Hubei provinces. As of […]
China online travel market down 55.8% in Q1 2020
The estimated transactions of China’s online travel market in the first quarter of 2020 were 186.2 billion yuan, down 55.8% quarter on quarter. Affected by the tourism off-season, the transaction scale of China’s online tourism market in Q4 2019 was 421.37 billion yuan, down 22.0% month on month, which was more significant than that in […]
China online shopping market overview Q1 2020
The transactions of China’s online shopping market is expected to reach 2.1 trillion yuan in Q1 2020, down 33.3% quarter on quarter or decrease of 1.2% year on year. In Q4 2019, the transactions of China’s online shopping market reached 3.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 38.5% QoQ or 26.9% YoY. The growth was higher […]
Taobao Live’s Stunning Growth in 2020
Taobao recently announced plans to host live streaming sessions from 300,000 merchants per day in 2020. Wholesalers and manufacturers in factory cluster areas, such as Yiwu in Zhejiang Province, will be the target. Top Taobao Live anchors: Li Jiaqi and Viya Launched in 2016, the live streaming channel Taobao Live expects to help incubate 200,000 […]
China’s digital content ecosystems getting more diverse
Boundaries for content creators in China are disappearing. Their means of creation and background are diversifying. Thanks to the lowered barrier for distribution, now everyone can be a content creator, making the content area more diverse and colorful. On Douyin, fashion, relationship, food, and talent show categories are witnessing saturation; still opportunities in the field […]
3 trends of digital content consumption in China
Technology now facilitates the production and distribution of content. It lowered the barrier of content creation and distribution. As a consequence, contents that previously target specific groups of people can now reach a wider range of audiences in China. The consumption of digital content has seen disappearing boundaries between urban and rural internet users, between […]
China’s mobile payment market overview Q1 2020
By March 2020, the number of online payment users in China has reached 768 million, an increase of 168 million over the end of 2018, accounting for 85.0% of the total Internet users. The number of mobile online payment users has reached 765 million, an increase of 182 million over the end of 2018, accounting […]
Alibaba launched Tmall Luxury Soho, targeting Gen-Z luxury shoppers
Alibaba quietly launched Luxury Soho, a new channel on the Tmall e-commerce platform targeting young and value-conscious luxury shoppers. Coach, MCM among the first to join Luxury Soho Luxury Soho is named after New York’s fashionable Soho district. It’s created as a solution to help luxury brands attract younger consumers as well as those who […]
How “Lite” apps help drive tech companies’ growth in China
Alibaba launched a “Lite” version of its DingTalk, an enterprise communication and collaboration platform in early April 2020. And, ByteDance also launched a light version of its enterprise messaging app Feishu. Launching a “Lite” version of a mobile app is a common tactic in the Chinese companies’ competitions, which is a lightweight version of the […]
China to account for 44% of global robotics market (including drones) by 2024
China is the largest robotics (including drones) market in the world. It is expected to account for 38% of the global total in 2020, with a total expenditure of US$47.38 billion according to IDC. By 2024, China will account for 44% of the global market. And, it will reach US$121.12 billion. IDC believes that in […]
Ant Financial’s digital bank MYbank saw net profit growth of 91% in 2019
MYbank, a digital bank under Ant Financial Services Group, served 20.87 million small and micro businesses (SME) in China as of the end of 2019, an increase of 70% YoY, according to its annual report. MYbank worked with more than 400 financial partners to provide business loans to those Chinese SMEs as of 2019, and […]
China’s mobile search market overview 2020
The number of mobile search users grew to 705 million in 2019 in China, according to a Chinese research company iiMedia. Baidu has the largest market share reaching over 70% mobile users in China, followed by Shenma and Sogou. The actual spending on search advertisements in China was 1.13 times higher than the budget. Over […]
China evening podcast users overview 2020
31.2% of the Chinese population have the habit of listening to audiobooks. And, China has over 200 million evening podcast users with a total playing duration of 10.9 billion hours, according to a recent report from research company Analysis. Users’ evening usage time in the mobile audio segment account for 46.3% of the total usage […]