Hongbao is an attractive tactic and often effective one for China internet companies to grow user base and engagement. And, it is one must-have activity among China internet users during Chinese New Year festival. Facing the coming Chinese New Year, Alipay is launching a special Hongbao campaign utilizing Augmented Reality to make it more interesting […]
How Alibaba fights counterfeit with big data
With big data analytics and other information, Alibaba could identify the counterfeiters online and assist law enforcement authorities in holding these bad actors accountable for their illicit acts.
Alibaba Double 12 promotion focuses on social commerce in 2016
One month after Alibaba Double 11 online shopping festival on Singles Day in China, Alibaba launched Double 12 online shopping festival on its C2C website Taobao.
Alibaba’s top shoppers spend an average of $45,000 a year online
APASs, or Alibaba Passport, is a membership program in which members are assigned personal account managers and organizing special events like wine tastings and automobile test drives.
Tmall Double 11 (Singles’ Day) Insights 2016
Double 11 (11 Nov; also called Singles’ Day) is China’s largest online shopping festival in China. At 12pm today, Tmall Double 11 sales had reached RMB 80.7 billion (USD 11.85 billion).
Alibaba rebranded OTA platform Fliggy has over 200m members
Alibaba announced an upgrade to its OTA platform Alitrip and renamed it to Fliggy (or “Fei Zhu”, flying pig) positioned as a leisure travel brand targeting the young travelers.
Digital ad revenue forecast 2016-2018: Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent
China digital ad spend is to reach USD 41.66 billion in 2016, accounting for over 20% of global’s total digital ad spend according to eMarketer.
China online shopping market overview for Q2 2016
China’s online shopping market transactions totaled RMB 1,117.8 billion (USD 167.51 billion) in the second quarter of 2016 with a growth rate of 27.6% YoY or 14.9% QoQ according to iResearch.
China SME B2B e-commerce market overview Q2 2016
Total revenues of China’s SME B2B e-commerce market reached RMB 5.79 billion (USD 870 million) in Q2 2016, an increase of 14.4% YoY or 6.8% QoQ according to iResearch.
Baidu picked as the second smartest company in 2016
MIT Technology Review lists Baidu as the second smartest company after Amazon in the world.
Taobao/Tmall Users vs Tmall Global Users
Tmall Global was officially launched on Feb 19 2014 by Alibaba which is designed for supplying imported goods for domestic consumers.
Tencent Launched Enterprise WeChat Challenging Alibaba DingTalk
Tencent officially launched Enterprise WeChat/Weixin this morning, positions as a tool for office communications and collaborations.
China B2B E-Commerce Market 2014-2015
The total revenues of China B2B e-commerce market reached 6.39 billion yuan in Q4 2015, an increase of 7.9% QoQ according to Analysis.
72% China Online Shoppers Keep Online All Day
72% China online shoppers keep online all day according to a recent survey conducted by Epsilon.
China B2B Market Insights 2016
Overseas new users increased rapidly on Alibaba.com in 2015, particularly in Europe, America, and the Middle East. Domestic merchants on 1688.com spent much time online and CXT users spent 47 hours on average in receiving their first orders in 2015 according to Alibaba. Alibaba is predicted to keep growth in sales and users in 2016.