Market penetration of online video reached 80.4%, a 5.8% increase year-on-year. While the average daily active users decreased to 210 million. Both Tencent Video (116 million) and Tik Tok (118.7 million) saw the average daily active users of over 100 million in September 2018. Tencent Video, iQiyi, and Youku took the top three places with […]
China Top Mobile Apps: Stats, Trends, Insights
Statistics: Top 500 Mobile Apps in China
China’s top mobile apps in social media, news, and paid knowledge in Q3 2018
Overall, the market penetration of social networking reached 99.7% in September 2018, with the average daily active users hitting 730 million. WeChat, QQ, and Weibo are the top 3. Tencent News and Toutiao competed for the leading place of news information. The giant player of paid knowledge has yet to come as the overall penetration was […]
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 […]
WeChat testing Nearby Restaurants feature with top level entry path
WeChat is testing a new feature allowing users to find nearby restaurants according to Yiou News. This feature locates on the top level menu, in parallel with WeChat Moments, People Nearby, Mini-Programs, etc.
Half of top 10 most profitable iOS apps are from China in 2018
Half the top ten apps that generated the most revenues from the Apple Store were from Chinese tech companies. Notably, all those apps turned out to provide some sorts of subscription services for video or music streaming and social interactions.
Top mobile apps in China Q3 2018
Chinese mobile internet users spent an average of 4.2 hours on mobile apps. The social interaction apps and online video apps account for over 35% and 24% of the 4.2 hours on mobile devices, respectively. WeChat retained its first spot with a penetration rate of 85.8%. Every 8 out of 10 mobile internet users use WeChat. Toutiao-affiliated selfie […]
Top mobile apps in China by total downloads & earnings in Oct 2018
Tik Tok topped the ranking of mobile apps with most downloads on Apple App Store in China in October 2018. PUBG, iQiyi, Tencent Video, and Xiaohongshu all retained their positions. Toutiao, Qutoutiao, and Xianyu made big progress. Tencent’s Honor of Kings still earned most. Eight out of the top best earners were game apps.
WeChat hosting over 1 million mobile apps with 200 million DAU in Nov 2018
WeChat Mini-Programs, light mobile apps running on top of WeChat, has attracted over 1.5 million developers with a total number of over 1 million mini-programs covering over 200 categories, according to Pony Ma, CEO of Tencent at World’s Internet Conference in Wuzhen.
China’s mobile business apps users insights 2018
The workforce in China totaled 770 million in 2017, with 424.62 million working in urban areas and 351.78 million in rural areas. Less than 20% of China’s working population used mobile business apps. The active users of business apps reached 155.81 million in June 2018. Maimai, 51job, Hilamaya FM, and DingTalk were the top choices. China […]
Top mobile apps in China by downloads & earnings in Sep 2018
Toutiao-affiliated selfie app Ulike topped the ranking of apps with most downloads on the iOS store in China in September 2018. PUBG, Exciting Battlefield, Tik Tok, iQiyi, and Xiaohong all slide down more or less. Tencent’s Honor of Kings led the ranking of mobile apps with most earnings. 7 out of 10 non-game apps with most earnings […]
Fresh food e-commerce trending in China with 38 million users in 2018
China’s fresh food e-commerce market had a penetration rate of 3.44% and 37.88 million users as of July 2018. 85.11% users only installed one app. Dmall, Missfresh, JD Daojia, Freshhema, and RT-Mart Fresh are among the list of top fresh food e-commerce apps. The industry penetration rate of fresh food e-commerce app was 3.44% as […]
Chinese spent 31% more time on sports & fitness mobile apps in 2018
Summer was the peak season for body-building with 104.24 million active users using sports & fitness mobile apps in China. On average, a user used sports & fitness apps 3.05 times a day and spent 20.17 minutes on it in June 2018. Body-building was more appealing to users from top-tier cities and those with mid-level to high purchasing […]