Weibo reported net revenues of US$149.0 million in Q4 2015 compared to US$105.2 million for the same period in 2014. Advertising and marketing revenues totaled US$129.5 million in Q4 2015 compared to US$88.0 million in Q4 2014 according to Weibo.
How Brands Utilized Chinese Spring Festival Gala on Sina Weibo
Chinese Spring Festival Gala usually had the highest TV ratings in the world, according to CCTV, its TV ratings in 2014 reached 30.94%. While in the US, Super Bowl also had pretty high TV ratings therefore Chinese called it “American Spring Festival Gala”. 2014 Super Bowl hit a new record of 111.5 million viewers.
Facebook Has 95 Million Users in China
An astonishing info found out by BI Intelligence that Facebook had 95 million users in China (under 100 million in America), although Facebook was and still is blocked by China Great Firewall. Besides, Google+ had 100 million users in China, Twitter had 80 million and Youtube had 60 million users in China. Linkedin is the […]
China Total Active Twitter Users Exceed U.S.
According to GlobalWebIndex, emerging internet markets dominate growth numbers for the big name social services and the top five markets for owning and being active on social profiles are Indonesia, China, South Korea, Philippines and Russia. The same study reported 35.5 million active Twitter users (those who used or contributed to the platform at least […]
Social Media Downstream Traffic in April: Weibo v.s. Facebook v.s. Twitter
According to Hitwise data, Weibo is playing a more important role to e-commerce websites in China, compared to Facebook and Twitter. A total of 6.5% Sina Weibo users visit e-commerce websites after visiting Weibo including daily deal sites, C2C websites (like Taobao) and B2C Websites (like 360buy.com).