Apple's App Store generated 23.7 billion yuan (US$3.57 bn) from China in Q2 2018, up 25% over Q2 2017 (US$2.86 bn) and 6% over Q1 this year. Almost the same as Q1 2018, though mobile gaming apps accounted for the lion's share of 79% in revenues, it only increased by 15% from Q2 2017, which is nothing compared with the skyrocketing growth of entertainment apps (163%). … [Read more...]
China Mobile Apps Market Stats, Trends, Insights
E-Book: Top 200 Mobile Apps in China
The popular video app in China, Tik Tok hits 150 mn DAU and 300 mn MAU up in June 2018
So far, Tik Tok (also known as Douyin in China), Headlines Today (Toutiao)-affiliated short video platform and social network, has reached over 150 million active users and over 300 million monthly active users, according to usage statistics released by Tik Tok on 12 June 2018. … [Read more...]
Cross-border e-commerce startup Xiaohongshu reached 100 mn users in May 2018
China’s e-commerce startup Xiaohongshu, or "Little Red Book,” has raised US$300 million with a valuation in excess of US$3 billion on May 31, 2018. Alibaba led this financing round, some famous investors GSR Ventures, Tencent Investment, GGV Capital, Genesis Capital, Tiantu Capital, Zhen Fund, and K11 Adrian Cheng have also participated. … [Read more...]
How many mobile apps in China? Over 4 million…
For the first four months of 2018, internet enterprises above designated size in China generated 264.9 billion yuan, an increase of 24.9% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the overall R&D expenditure totaled 14.45 billion yuan, up by 22.3% over last year, according to MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology). … [Read more...]
[REPORT] China’s pan-entertainment market growing with paid users
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Online pan-entertainment market refers to online music, e-books, and online videos. The revenues of the online pan-entertainment market in China are derived primarily from paid users. … [Read more...]
81% of WeChat users playing Mini-Games in 2018
81% of WeChat Mini-Programs users have played Mini-Games. As mini-game "Jump"(Tiaoyitiao) was receiving huge popularity at the end of 2017, Wechat started Mini-Games internal testing as of March 2018 and continued to attract users with several faddish Mini-Games represented by pinball games. … [Read more...]
Top mobile apps in China in Q1 2018; Tik Tok, Pinduoduo, and WeChat need your attention
On average a Chinese mobile netizen installed 42 apps in Q1 2018. Tik Tok topped the ranking of most downloaded apps on iOS store in China in March 2018. E-commerce app Pinduoduo moved up 12 places to the fifth. WeChat led the ranking of top 20 mobile apps in China. … [Read more...]
[REPORT] China e-commerce market snapshot 2018
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The total GMV of China's online shopping market totaled 6.1 trillion yuan (US$953 billion) in 2017, rising 29.6% from a year earlier and showing a pick-up in growth, according to the latest data from iResearch. China’s B2C online shopping market totaled 3.6 trillion yuan in 2017 accounting for 60% of the overall online shopping market in China, an increase of 4.8 percentage … [Read more...]
Apple’s App Store made US$3.5 bn in China in Q1 2018, up 29% YoY
In Q1 2018, Apple App Store generated 22.4 billion yuan (US$3.49 bn) from China, up 29% over Q1 2017. Mobile gaming apps took the largest share of 79% in revenues, but only saw an 18% increase year-on-year, well off that of entertainment apps (138%). The total number of downloads reached 2.5 billion in Q1 2018, representing 32% of the global downloads. … [Read more...]
WeChat Mini-Programs expected 500 million users in Q1 2018
With ticket grabbing WeChat Mini-Programs going viral, WeChat Mini-Program games see peak concurrent active users reaching 28 million per hour. Mini-games "Jump" (Tiaoyitiao) sold its advertising opportunity to Nike at 20 million yuan (US$3.1 million); and, WeChat started Mini-Programs' advertising internal testing. The commercialization of WeChat Mini-Programs has entered into … [Read more...]
China mobile short-video app market 2018; Tik Tok vs. Kuaishou
Kuaishou started to lead the short video market by reaching over 200 million MAU in November 2017. Tik Top, part of Toutiao, saw astonishing growth in MAU from September 2017. In February 2018, Kuaishou continued to dominate this market with DAU of exceeding 100 million, followed by Tik Tok. … [Read more...]
WeChat Mini-Programs status report 2018; 470M MAU in Q1
WeChat Mini-Programs have finally passed through a period of high publicity and are settling into one of the silent advances and steady development, according to data from QuestMobile. Despite both hype and opposition, WeChat Mini-Programs will bring significant change in the future. … [Read more...]
WeChat launched rewarded video ads platform for mini-games
WeChat officially launched rewarded video ads platform for mini-program games. Advertisers can deliver rewarded video ads at specific mini-games scenes. … [Read more...]
Ping An Bank mobile banking active users up 304% yoy in Jan 2018
The number of active users of Ping An Pocket Bank grew by 304% year-on-year to 16.066 million in January 2018 according to Analysys from only 3.977 million in January 2017, ranking fifth in the mobile banking market. In February 2018, this figure reached 16.917 million, a 5.3% increase quarter-on-quarter. … [Read more...]
Top mobile apps in China 2018; led by WeChat, QQ, Alipay, Taobao, iQiyi (Updated)
Mobile social networking is the top category of mobile apps in China by the average total time spent, followed by mobile videos, mobile games, and news. Top 10 mobile apps by monthly active users are WeChat, QQ, Alipay, Taobao, iQiyi, Tencent Video, Baidu (search), Weibo, Youku, and QQ Browser. Check out top mobile apps in China in online video, shopping, travel, social … [Read more...]
China mobile app user insights 2018
The monthly active devices of China mobile internet has held steady at over 1 billion units, seeing slow growth in 2017. The year-on-year growth rate also shows the gradual step-down trend. … [Read more...]