Alipay recently introduced a new feature Sports on its mini-programs platform and opened beta testing to some developers. It has helped promote brand exposure and user acquisitions. Previously, Alipay mini-programs has opened over 600 functions including face recognition to developers. Alipay, the leading online payment platform owned by Ant Financial and affiliated with Alibaba Group, […]
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Top 50 Chinese Global Brand Builders 2019, led by Huawei
Awareness of Chinese brands in international markets has declined over the past three years. The “Brand Power” of leading Chinese brands is up 15% year-on-year, compared with 5% growth last year. “Brand Power” is rising fastest in Japan, France, and Spain, representing emerging hubs of growth, according to the BrandZ™ Top 50 Chinese Brand Builders […]
60% brands using celebrities in China did not achieve continuous growth in brand power
60% of brands continuously using celebrity endorsement strategy have failed to grow their brand power in the past three years. China is one of the markets that are most keen on using celebrities in advertising. Looking at the percentage of ads featuring celebrities, China ranks third, next only to Japan and South Korea, and the […]
How can marketers get gender right in China?
Advertising industry’s failure to portray and target women well impacts the effectiveness of individual adverts and campaigns. Male-skewed brands are missing out on an average of US$9 billion in brand valuation in the US, UK, and China. The vast majority (88%) of APAC marketers think they are doing a good job of portraying women as positive role […]
How China’s short video app Kuaishou grew its DAU by 40M in 5 months
China’s short video market saw explosive growth in the past year. The success of Tik Tok (or Douyin in Chinese) soon attracted Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba to join in the competition. In a short span of time, several hundred short video apps appeared in the market. In the short video market, competition is growing fierce […]
How Chinese consumers respond to price discrimination
Some Chinese tech companies are utilizing big data and deploy price discrimination to charge differently on different users. That is mainly demonstrated in three aspects: different prices for iOS and Android smartphone users, different prices for registered users and unregistered users, and different prices for more active users and less active ones. Empowered by internet […]
Secrets of wining low-tier city youth in China for FMCG brands
Low-tier city consumers are an increasingly important source of growth for the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. For many brands, they are the make-or-break factor for their success in China. To win them over, brands need real-life data to understand what they’re buying and, more importantly, why. Low-tier cities youth: must-win consumer segment for many […]
Quick Look: Marketing in China 2019
The number of China internet users exceeded 801 million with a penetration rate of 57.7% according to the latest data from CNNIC. Live broadcasting, short videos, and personalized content will continue to be essential parts of digital marketing strategies in 2019.
China internet users mobile usage scenarios
More and more marketers’ attention in China is shifting onto post-95s, the elderly population, and lower-tier cities. A total of 1,309 apps have more than one million users as of June 2018, an increase of 11% year-on-year. The app opens increased by 8% quarter-on-quarter and the average daily usage duration on a single app decreased by 12%. […]
40% of Chinese consumers will be Centennials by 2020
Centennials is already an economic powerhouse globally as the population born after 1997 now accounts for 35% of the world’s total population. In China, this cohort is generally a combination of post-95s and post-00s. They are quickly becoming the mainstream of Chinese consumers as well. 40% of Chinese consumers will be from these two age […]
Chinese consumer needs to grow around health, instant satisfaction, and personalization
With Chinese consumers entering a new era of shopping, the consumer needs in the near future would grow around three themes: health, instant satisfaction, and personalization. Recently in China, there is a lot of questioning about the once prevailing belief of “consumption upgrading” or “premiumization”, which means consumers start to buy better products/services for higher quality […]