Alibaba and Sina released “Weibo for Taobao” version on August 1, 2013. Before that, they had linked their accounts, and cooperated in various areas, such as exchanging and sharing their user data, online payment and internet marketing, etc. They combined social media and E-business platform to explore a totally new area: Social Commerce.
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Ctrip Cooperating With Its Rival Qunar
Ctrip, the largest online travel agency in China, has begun cooperation with its old rival Qunar which is the Chinese leading travel search engine on vacation packages recently after a long time price war and war of words. Besides, it is said Ctrip and Qunar will further cooperate on air tickets and hotel booking. The […]
Sina Weibo Advertising Revenue Hit 30M USD in Q2 2013
Sina released its Q2 finance report on Aug 12, its advertising revenue hit 30 million USD with a 209% YoY increase, 80% of Sina Weibo total revenue of 37.7 million USD. Sina advertising revenue had a YoY growth of 17%, up to USD 120.6 million. Sina had a net loss attributed to an one-off charge […]
10 Charts to Tell You About China Online Shopping Market in Q2 2013
iResearch recently released its China Internet Data Report in Q2 2013, giving us a glimpse of China internet performance in Q2. Online Markets and Online Advertising As you can tell from the chart above, Mobile won over PC devices on internet segment markets growth, such as shopping, searching, marketing(searching excluded) and game. Online shopping and […]
China Online B2C Market Surpassed 30% of Total Online Shopping
According to iResearch,Chinese online transaction market scale reached 352.1 billion yuan (USD 57.52 billion), with a year-on-year increase of 36.6%. B2C has surpassed 30%, increasing 10% compared to last year. Tmall is leading B2C market, with 51.3% online market share in Q2, while Jingdong tops independent sales B2C market with 43.4% share.
China Online Ad Market Reached 23 Billion Yuan in Q2 2013
China online ad market in Q2, from iResearch data, reached 23.26 billion yuan (USD 3.8 billion), growing 17.4% compared to Q1 and YoY growth of 27.4%. China online ad market is entering to a steady growth stage. In Q2, search, video, news and navigation monthly usage increased. NetEase, Taobao and eTao had more than 10% […]
Sina Segmenting Weibo Usage with Multiple Versions
Sina is also testing a different version for media like this one. In media edition of Sina Weibo, it has articles section besides the weibo posts stream. Weibo posts published via media edition are also displayed differently like this one.
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 […]
Overview of Sina Weibo 2012
During year 2012, the number of Sina Weibo registered users kept increasing and exceeded the 300 million mark at the end of February, 400 million after July, and kept jumping over 500 million by the end of the year. At the same time, the active Weibo users reached 4.62 million, up by 82% compared to the […]
China’s Instant Messaging Users reached 1.21 Billion in Q3 2012
According to EnfoDesk, China instant messaging users reached 1.21 billion in Q3 2012, with the QoQ growth of 4.1% and YoY growth of 7.1% Reviewing the performance of China’s IM products from Q3 2010 to Q3 2012, key players are Tencent QQ, Ali Wangwang, Fetion and others.
China’s Bachelor’s Day (Double 11): Big Online Shopping Day
What is the hottest word among Chinese netizens these days? It’s the “Bachelor’s Day Promotion”. Almost every netizen has got the invitation for this ceremony whether or not you are a bachelor. About Bachelor’s Day Promotion in China November 11th has become a special festival during recent years. With four characters of “1”, this date […]
Google Trying To Impede Alibaba’s Progress on Mobile
Recently, Aliyun and Acer cancelled the launch event for the latest smartphone. It is said that because of the obstruction from Google, the launch event had come to a temporary cancelation. Last Tuesday, Acer made an announcement that they were going to launch a new smartphone A800 with Aliyun mobile OS. Developed by Alibaba Group, […]
Your Baidu Account May Be Hacked
Recently Baidu PPC accounts become the target of hackers; if your company runs paid search on Baidu, make sure your account is safe and what to do next if it’s hacked. It’s time to check with your account manager or consultant if any of the following happens: Account suspended due to “illegal” keywords and/or ad […]
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).
China Online Shopping Market in Q1 Reached 228.2 Billion Yuan
China’s first quarter online shopping transactions was 228.2 billion yuan, down 0.8% over the previous quarter but up 40.9% over the same period last year.