Tencent and Starbucks announced strategic cooperation in Guangzhou today; and from today on, WeChat Pay is available in about 2,500 Starbucks stores in China.
Archives for December 2016
These 22 FMCG companies reached over 100M urban Chinese households
22 fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies reached over 100 million urban Chinese households during the 52 weeks ending October 7, 2016 according to Kantar Worldpanel.
Top Baidu keywords in 2016
Baidu released lists of top searched keywords in 2016. Rio Olympics is the top keyword in 2016; VR the most popular technology trend on Baidu; and, the most searched mobile apps are QQ, WeChat, and Baidu Mobile.
China social media ads market overview Q3 2016
China social media advertising and marketing market reached 6.38 billion yuan, an increase of 17.7% QoQ.
China online and convenience stores enjoying strong momentum
Online and convenience stores in China are enjoying strong momentum while supermarket growth continuously slowed and hypermarket sales even declined according to Kantar Worldpanel.
Baidu version of Google AMP
Baidu launched Mobile Instant Page (“MIP”) in August 2016, a similar technology to Google’s AMP.
China mobile app market insights for Q3 2016
The number of monthly active users (“MAU”) of China’s mobile internet market has reached 1 billion as of September 2016 according to QuestMobile, among which Android and iOS exceeded 700 and 280 million respectively.