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Mobile advertising market overview in China in H1 2017
Mobile advertising spends of internet services in China are the largest category in the first half of 2017, followed by Food & Beverage, IT products, and retail. … [Read more...]
China search engine Sogou revenues up 55% in Q3 2017
Sogou, one of the top Chinese search engines, revenues reached US$257 million in Q3 2017, up 55% year-over-year and 22% quarter-over-quarter. … [Read more...]
WeChat enhanced in-app search results with mini-programs data
Tencent has enhanced WeChat search features this week and feed the search results with data from WeChat Mini-Programs. … [Read more...]
WeChat just made mini-programs discoverable by keywords
WeChat team announced a new feature over the weekend that makes WeChat Mini-Program discoverable by keywords searching. … [Read more...]
WeChat just launched Search and Top Stories
WeChat launched Search and Top Stories sections in the updated WeChat iOS 6.5.8. These two sections are not yet available for Android smartphone users. … [Read more...]
China mobile search market overview for Q1 2017
Baidu has 78.2% share of China's mobile search market by the total number of mobile search queries in the first quarter of 2017. … [Read more...]
China search engine market share in Apr 2017
StatCounter data shows Baidu's market share was 76.05% in China search engines market in April 2017, followed by Shenma (8.78%), 360 Search (7.87%), Sogou (3.31%), and Google (1.84%). Baidu is more dominant in China's mobile search market with over 82% market share, followed by Shenma (13.79%) according to StatCounter. China search engine market overview Q1 … [Read more...]
WeChat becoming a threat to Baidu in mobile search?
WeChat has included external sources in in-app search results pages (SERP) while it previously only searches chats, WeChat Moments, and Official Accounts. Some users start to see a "news" section in the WeChat SERP which includes external news sources. … [Read more...]
A Quick Guide for Baidu Mobile SEO
Mobile users are sometimes forced to initiate or download an app to continue viewing further content while visiting a web page via search engine, which can be quite annoying to users. … [Read more...]
China’s mobile search market overview Q3 2016
The number of mobile search users in China reached 628 million in Q3 2016, an increase of 1.29% QoQ according to iiMedia Research. … [Read more...]
Baidu mobile search MAUs increased to 660m in Sep 2016
Baidu's mobile search monthly active users (MAUs) were 660 million for the month of September 2016, an increase of 3% year-over-year according to its announced Third Quarter 2016 Results. … [Read more...]
Baidu’s mobile search MAUs reached 667m in June 2016
Baidu's mobile search monthly active users (MAUs) reached 667 million for the month of June 2016, an increase of 6% year-over-year according to its Q2 2016 results. … [Read more...]
Baidu Mobile Search Users Reached 663 Mn in March 2016
Baidu mobile search monthly active users (MAUs) were 663 million for the month of March 2016, an increase of 9% year-over-year according to Baidu first quarter 2016 results. … [Read more...]
China Online Advertising Overview in Q3 2015
China internet advertising market has entered a mature stage that the growth rate has been stable for several consecutive quarters this year. The overall internet advertising market reached 55.86 billion yuan (US$8.69 billion) with an increase of 12.1% compared to Q2 this year and 37.9% compared to Q3 2014 in the third quarter of 2015 according to iResearch. … [Read more...]
Baidu Mobile Search MAUs Reached 643 Mln in Q3 2015
Baidu reported revenues of 18.383 billion yuan ($2.892 billion) for the third quarter of 2015, representing a 36.0% increase from the corresponding period in 2014 and $120 million increase from Q2 2015. Mobile revenues accounted for up to 54% of the total. The increase of revenues was mainly driven by its online marketing services. … [Read more...]