China B2C Market Quarterly Transactions 2010-2011

Total transactions of China’s B2C market reached 240.07 billion yuan (USD 38.03 billion) in 2011, with an increase of over 130% compared to 2010.

Source: EnfoDesk, Analysis International

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China Online Advertising Revenue 2006-2015

According to iResearch, China internet advertising total revenue reached 51.19 billion yuan (USD 8.11 billion) in 2011, up 57.3% from 2010 and exceeding total newspaper print ad revenue by 45.36 billion yuan.

iResearch forecasts total internet advertising revenue would exceed 100 billion yuan next year (2013).

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China Search Engine Market Summary for 2011

by CIW Team Staff on January 17, 2012

in Search Engines

China Search Engine Market 2006-2015

Total revenue of China search engine market last year reached 18.78 billion yuan, up 11.7% from 2010. Baidu leads search engine market with a market share of 76.1% by revenue while Google’s down to 19.8%. Sogou and Soso expanded their market share to 2.3% and 1.4% respectively.

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China Online Payment Market Size 2006-2015e

China Online Payment Market Size 2006-2015e

China’s third party online payment continues to maintain strong growth in 2011 with an estimated total transaction exceeding 2 trillion yuan (2,203.8 billion yuan or USD 349 billion), up 118%. China Online Payment Market Share in 2011

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Social Feature in Baidu Search Results

Social Feature in Baidu Search Results

Baidu is found been testing Google +1 like features in its search results pages, like the screenshot shown above. A thumb up icon is displayed with a number in SERPs beside the display URL, like the Facebook Like box.

Visit this link (“Baidu”) or this one (“Guge”, Google’s Chinese brand name) or this (“Sogou”) to have a live view. I tested some keywords and only found keywords related to search engine brand terms that triggers this social icon. What does the number mean?

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Baidu Launched Encyclopedia Digital Museum

by CIW Team Staff on January 10, 2012

in News

Baidu Encyclopedia Digital Museum

Baidu Encyclopedia Digital Museum

Baidu has launched the Baidu Encyclopedia Digital Museum to digitally display the collections of museums across the country.

You can click the map tab, select the region and view a list of museums. You can then click on the museum’s name to view its collection, or visit its Baidu Encyclopedia entry. So far, only collections from six museums are available.

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Top Car Rental Websites in China in 2011

As you can see in the above search trend graph, car rental business is taking off in China. 

Ratio of Visits: Sina Weibo v.s. Twitter

Sina Weibo accounted for 1 in every 158 Internet visits in China last April. And, it’s growing very fast as shown above according to Hitwise data. This means that Sina Weibo accounted for about 1 in every 100 Internet visits in China, a platform marketers shouldn’t ignore in the overall digital marketing strategies. Also check [...]

Baidu Integrates Transport Info In Search Results

Just in time for China’s big holiday, spring festival, Baidu’s Box Computing initiative has come out with its real-time flight status inquiry service, integrated in the search results. When a user searches on Baidu using “flight number”?she can view the real-time flight status on top of the search results like the screenshot shown above. Similarly, [...]

Charts: Internet Usage – HK v.s. SEA

According to Nielsen’s report on Hong Kong digital behavior, 87% of Hong Kong consumers have used the Internet in the past 12 months, compared to neighboring markets such as Singapore (67%), Malaysia (38%), Thailand (31%), Philippines (30%) and Indonesia (19%).

Chinese Banks To Benefit from Internet User Data Leak

The user IDs, passwords and email addresses of more than 6 million accounts registered on CSDN were leaked two weeks ago. You may want to check whether your account is already a public secret using Am I Hacked. However, Chinese banks will benefit from this attack as China Ministry of Public Security now requires that leading search [...]

Top 10 Fast Growing Chinese B2C Websites in 2011

According to iResearch, the fastest growing B2C website in 2011 by total number of orders is womai.com (owned by China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation; or, COFCO), followed by vjia.com (owned by VANCL) and yaodian100.com.

Sina Weibo Now Allows Private Posting

Sina Weibo has just launched a new feature to allow users to publish private posts. As shown in the above screen capture, users can either publish publicly or privately with a simple selection. Users don’t have much control on this “privacy setting” as they either allow everything to see their posts or make it private [...]

Baidu Launched Open Beta Test Platform

Baidu officially released its Open Beta Test Platform last Tuesday, a convenient “one-stop shop” for users interested in participating the latest Baidu products testing. Upon signing in, users will discover a personal center, a mission assignment square, an on-the-spot survey column, a gifts center, and an accomplishment column. Users can click on the button “receive [...]

Beijing Administration Released Regulations on Microblogs

Beijing Municipal government announced Regulations of Microblog Development today. Micrblogging websites in Beijing city administrative area and their users should comply with the regulations. The regulation requires microblog users to register their identities with authorities and forbids creating fake Weibo accounts.

Chart: Top 10 OTA by Share of Visits in November

Experian released November data for China’s most visited online travel agencies. Does it surprise you that Qunar is the most visited OTA in China?

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