According to Enfodesk, the two main online third-party travel agencies, Ctrip and eLong together accounted for approximately 61.6% of the market share in 2012, up from 55.4% in 2011.
Archives for March 2013
Baidu Refer 27% Traffic to Its Own Web Properties
According to Experian Hitwise, Baidu refer 27% of the search traffic to its own web properties, among which the top three are Baidu Knows (or Baidu Zhidao, a Q&A style site), Baidu Encyclopedia (Wiki style site), and Baidu Post Bar (a UGC website similar to a forum).
What Chinese Want Eight Years Ago
We found something interesting when we took a look at a copy of New Weekly that was published about 8 years ago. “TOP 10 Chinese Desires” listed Chinese people’s top 10 dreams. About 72.68% of them wanted to have more money; 65.12% longed to travel around the world; and 54.09% wished China became No.1 in the […]
Sina Weibo Starts Showing Individual Post Views
This week Sina quietly launched a new feature for all Weibo users to see how many people have viewed each post, just like the one shown on Facebook Pages:
Tencent Active IM Users Close to 800 Million, Social Network Qzone Over 600 Million in 2012
Tencent revenues were RMB 43,893.7 million (USD6,983.3 million), an increase of 54.0% over the year ended December 31, 2011 (“YoY”) according to its Q4 and annual results announcement. Tencent social networks registered solid growth in 2012, with increase in the scale and activity of mobile users. MAU of Qzone increased by 9% year-on-year to 603 million at the end of […]
CHART: Chinese New Year Internet User Visit Time
According to a data released by Nielsen recently, from January 28 to February 24 2013, during the Chinese New Year, the sites where people spent the longest time are search engine, directories, e-commerce and others. E-commerce, other websites and e-mail experienced the most obvious changes during CNY period. The change of the visit time on e-commerce […]
China B2B Market in 2012
According to Enfodesk, Alibaba led the B2B market with the 47.9% market share, followed by Global Sources and HC360 ,with market share of 10.6% and 4.0% respectively. Eofodesk held a view that China’s B2B market is now in times of change, and every enterprise is going through the transformation according to their advantages and features.
Mobile Shopping Market in China in 2012
According to the mobile shopping market quarterly monitoring report for Q4 2012, released by Enofodesk, China mobile shopping market reached 19.6 billion yuan (USD 3.15 billion). In 2012, the mobile shopping market reached 60.05 billion yuan (USD 9.66 billion), among which Taobao alone accounted for 80%. Recalling China mobile shopping market performance in 2012, market concentration is […]
China Third-party Online Payment Market in 2012
The third-party online payment market continued to grow rapidly in 2012,with the large-scale annual transaction exceeding 3.8 trillion yuan, according to the latest data from Enfodesk. The third-party Internet payment market share in 2012 remained stable.
Top 3 Online Advertising Platform in 2012: Baidu, Alibaba, Google
According to Enfodesk, Baidu accounted for 30.9% of the total online ad revenue in China; Alibaba for 15.3%, and Google China for 6.2%.
How Many Users Can You Really Reach on Sina Weibo
A study, conducted by researchers at Hong Kong University, studied a random sample of roughly 30,000 users and found that 57% had no posts in the timeline, 86.9% of users wrote no original posts and 88.9% did not repost any original message from another account. Sina claimed Weibo reached 503 million registered users by the end of […]
Where Chinese Netizens’ Internet Surfing Start and End in 2012
According to iResearch on the major entry and exit websites of the past two years, Chinese netizens’ behavior did not change too much. Portal, search engine and navigational websites are still the main choices for netizens to surf the Internet.
Top Chinese News Portal in Jan 2013
Chinese news portal daily coverage reached up to 27.14 million users in January according to data from iResearch. People’s Daily is the largest news portal by total visitor reach covering 6.23 million Internet users or 2.6% of total.
China Search Engine Market Share in 2012
According to China search engine market quarterly data in 2012 released by EnfoDesk, the China search engine leader Baidu accounted for 78.6% of the total search engine market, Google for 15.6%, while Sogou 3.1%.