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?

Top 50 Most Valuable Chinese Brands

Millward Brown released their second annual BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Brands. You can get the PDF here or view a summary below (Internet companies are bolded). Baidu, Tencent, Sina, Renren, Ctrip and Sohu are the six Internet companies that made it to the Top 50 most valuable Chinese brands; Baidu (6) and Tencent (10) [...]

China Public Holidays in 2012

Chinese government agency has announced the public holidays in 2012 last week, which marketers should know for planning: New Year’s Day: 1-3 January (3 days), 31 Dec 2011 (Saturday) is a working day Chinese New Year: 22-28 January (7 days), Jan 21 (Sat) and Jan 29 (Sun) are working days Ching Ming Festival: 2-4 April [...]

Chinese Spent More Time Watching Video on Computers & Mobile Than TV

Starcom MediaVest Group’s recently conducted a study of users ages 13 to 45 in China and found that internet users aged 19 to 30 spent almost twice as much time online as watching TV.

Alibaba Launching A Google+ Like Social Network

A screenshot was leaked yesterday about a new social network, Laiwang.com that Alibaba is building and testing internally:

Sina Weibo Has Over 2 Million Users in Hong Kong

Sina announced a milestone of 2 million users in Hong Kong at its official Weibo account this morning. And, Sina released an app for its users in Hong Kong using Facebook Connect to to share their presence at Sina Weibo with up to 15 Facebook friends per day. Sina Weibo has made a custom design [...]

Demographic Profiles of China’s Top Social Networking Sites

Users China’s top social networking sites are quite young, about 80% of which are between 20-34 years old according to Enfordesk’s data in September this year.

Understanding China’s E-commerce Market

Boston Consulting Group shared research findings this week predicting that China online shopping, will see exponential growth through 2015, with spending that could make China’s e-commerce market worth more than RMB 2 trillion and possibly surpass the size of the U.S. market. Here is a summary of some findings of BCG survey: Less than 10 [...]

China OTA Market Update for Q3 2011 [CHART]

ctrip.com maintains its dominant position in China’s Online Travel Agency (OTA) market with 41% share of total 2.41 billion yuan revenue (USD 379 million).

China’s Search Engine Market Update for Q3 2011

China web search requests amounted to 77.51 billion times in Q3 2011, up 6.1% from Q2 and 16.3% from Q3 2010 according to research company iResearch.

Top 10 Searched Auto Brands in Oct 2011 [CHART]

According to Hitwise data, the most searched for auto brand is Volkswagen in both September and October.  

Renren Reached 137 Million Users in Q3 2011

Renren last week announced its unaudited Q3 financial results, who also made their first post-IPO strategic acquisition, 56.com in Q3, a leading Chinese user-generated-content focused video sharing site Renren’s mobile penetration has reached over 35% of unique monthly log-in users with over half of their mobile users accessing their Renren accounts through smartphones. In addition, [...]

A Record Single-day Turnover of 3.36 Billion Yuan Taobao Mall

November 11 (11-11) is Singles Day in China and year 2011 makes this date more special with six “1″s. And, this date is even a bigger date for China’s online retailers. Let’s take a look at how crazy China online shoppers can be on Nov 11 2011 on Taobao Mall (all participating merchants offered 50% [...]

Total Weibo Users: Sina v.s. Tencent

Sina and Tencent last week released in the Q3 financial results their latest number of microblogging (Weibo) users. We created a chart for a quick comparison of this two most popular Weibo platforms in China in the last three quarters. Tencent Weibo is growing faster than Sina Weibo; the number of daily active users on [...]

5 Ways to Search Weibo in China

Sina Weibo has announced a total of 250 million users and 86 million daily posts being published. Yes; Weibo is no doubt very popular; information on Weibo and monitoring of the content published are helpful to companies to get insights into this market. Let me share a few ways to search for content on Weibo [...]

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